Shoutout to @tringakrasniqi who inspired me to write this article. 😊
I've been writing technical blogs for quite some time now. Over these years, ...
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Nice Article! Anyone in search of technical details in writing, Google has a great source they use for their engineers developers.google.com/tech-writing
Thanks, David. I was looking for something like this.
Thanks for the link David!
As someone who is familiar with writing but new to blogging, the following tips were new to me: ask for feedback, and use a cover image. I will ask for feedback in my next post, which will be about some software that I release, so it should be perfect.
I'm still not convinced how to pick a cover image; I could pick random art from my artist friends to simply promote it. Considering that I aim for cover images to hold no other information value, that is probably what I'll do. Thanks for motivating the thought. :-)
On the subject of composition one could elaborate even more; I like to think of online "short-form" reading like downloading JPEGs on a modem where you get gradually finer pixelation:
At any point, the reader will quit. Give them as much as you can with as little as possible. This style of writing is not "long-form" as demonstrated e.g. by VICE and has its limitations. But I would rather always keep reading to at most 5 minutes. This blog post of yours says 5 minutes, too.
Great points here! Thanks for this comment :)
This is a great article and the discussions on here are also very insightful. I was looking up information on technical writing because I this is something I want to start doing soon, as a way to share what I've been learning especially for problems that took lots of research, such as reading documentation or forums threads, to find a solution that works. In the case of forum threads I usually find conversations that lead me to a solution of my own.
Thanks for reading @manuelosorio ! :)
Question for you: How does one get ideas for articles?
Monitoring StackOverflow and tech sites regularly, including Medium, Dev.to, Hacker News, CSS Tricks, and other sources.
When you solve a problem that you were running into frequently, and you realize that few people, if any, have actually shared that solution with others.
I'm sure there are more ways than just these two, though.
Great question Binyamin! Here are a few points regarding the same:
Ask yourself. What do you want to share with the world? Any tip? A tutorial? A new tech stack you learned? Some cons or pros of a language? There can be thousands of such ideas at your disposal once you start asking yourself!
Interact with others. The more you communicate (both online/offline), the more knowledge you gain and the more ideas your brain creates!
Hop into trends! Google has it's own Trends website, pick a topic and share the knowledge.
Join communities. This helps in getting more buzzwords and tech words/skills which you may want to discover and then write about it.
Follow Aleksandr's points!
This is one of those moments where I wish I could save comments on DEV!
@ben nudge nudge
Also,
Ask for review before publishing technical stuff, but don't let othes change your "voice".
I'm searching for tips and guidelines to write technical articles, fortunately, I found your post, and I hope it will help me a lot!
Thank you and good luck!
Very helpful article and the discussion on this post is amazing. This will certainly help me.
Thank you for being my reader. 🤗
Really clear, nice post. You said you moved to DEV from Medium, did you consider to crosspost ? I'm curious about your choice :)
Hey Antoine! Thanks for reading.
I just crossposted my first article here from DEV to Medium. This one:
How to start a coding project making sure you remember it months later 🌟
Vaibhav Khulbe ・ Jan 1 ・ 12 min read
Some really good tips here! Thanks for sharing this 👍
I'm glad you found it good. 😀
Technical articles are not here to teach Oxford English. 😄 But it should make us write Good and better English.
Agree!
Great article!! It is so great to find advice on how to write quality technical posts. I am sure these tips will help anyone trying to get better at writing (including me :)) Good work!
💯% yes! Do you have other questions to ask? 😛
That was a very well written article with some excellent tips. Thank You!
Thanks for this great article, Vaibhav. It will definitely help me, and many others, in their writing journey.
All the best! :)
So good to hear that it will help you. And thanks! :)