Writing For Nerds - Blogging For Fun and (Not Much) Profit • Charles Humble • GOTO 2023

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Aarhus 2023. #GOTOcon #GOTOaar

Charles Humble - Editor in Chief at Container Solutions

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ABSTRACT
I’m increasingly convinced that as an industry we need to get much better at sharing our knowledge with each other. Unfortunately many of us engineers suffer from a common affliction: fear of writing. It often starts at school where we were told we didn’t have a “gift for words”.

This is nonsense. Writing is a craft, and the principles of it can be learnt.

Over the last eight years, first at InfoQ and now at Container Solutions, I've helped hundreds of developers become better writers. With this talk I want to show you some of the parallels between programming and writing. I’ll also explain the process I use, explore some patterns that can help you to think about how to communicate your ideas, share some of the tips and tricks you can use to write well, and discuss how you get published.

By doing so I hope to inspire more engineers to get excited about sharing their knowledge. [...]

TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
05:14 Why write?
07:36 Parallels between writing & programming
09:34 Process
20:58 Patterns & structures
34:30 Writing well
43:21 Outro

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[PKAnon]

This arrived at a perfect time for me, and I found it quite helpful.

[edgeeffect]

Dyslexia makes you a BETTER editor not a bad one.... Dylexia gives you the magic power of saying "I don't understand this shit, write it again." ;)

[SachinGanpat]

Engineers and technical people need to write more.

[maciej.zagozda]

Seems like a very professional speech, however, it's a shame the audio is completely corrupted. I don't know what is wrong but I cannot hear words due to some weird equaliser settings applied. I've checked with some other videos from this channel and it seems like a problem only with this one.