code stories

@vaidehijoshi

a year of technical blogging

programmer

writer

programmer

what👏

is👏

going👏

on👏

🚨halp!🚨

maybe no one is reading.

maybe no one will.

maybe it doesn't matter.

maybe

i just write for me.

people started

people started are still reading!

reading!

Human beings

love stories

good technical writing

is

good storytelling

technical writing

is

not exciting.

but we should all do it!

🐥 written rubber-duck debugging 

📝 documentation of you

😜 ridiculously awesome resume   

📣 open source education

what do i write?

what if it sucks?

ugh, nvm.

yo, this is so intimidating.

cool.

how do i start?

1/  what do you WANT to learn?

what do i write?

2/ what did you recently learn?

3/ what did you recently build?

4/ what weird shit did you recently stumble upon?

writing is a lot easier when you aren't worried about who is reading

how do i start?

have a conversation about the problem

how do i start?

walk through different things to try

explore & unpack how it works

be yourself 👻

what if it sucks?

I think that a good story is one that says,

we’re both human beings,

confer about it a little bit at a very high non-bullshitty level?

we’re in this crazy situation called life that we don’t really understand,

- George Saunders

can we put our heads together and

at many different levels,

good storytelling shows

empathy 🌎

humility  🌻

good storytelling shows

technical blogging

We need more storytellers

Get it down.

Take chances.

It may be bad, 

but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.

 – William Faulkner

thank you! 😬

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