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! 😬
Code Stories: A Year Of Technical Blogging
By Vaidehi Joshi
Code Stories: A Year Of Technical Blogging
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