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Show HN: Writing for Software Developers
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#42The website says "Earn money, make connections, and get noticed.The rates I earn from writing, usually $250 to $500 per article, add up." What are some ways to do that exactly?
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#43Amazing! Just purchased it. Thanks Phillip. Question on the side: does anybody know of a good app that could "read" the epub for me? I feel like I could listen to these interviews while doing chores at home.
This app @Voice Aloud Reader is great for all kinds of docs. You can even long press paras in Chrome Android and in the long-press menu there'll be an option for Reading it Aloud.
epub,PDF etc. supported too, all details in app description.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hyperionic...
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#44"Throughout college, also I have sought physical engagement outside of martial arts, taking up climbing and lifting." [0]
Not to be harsh, but I wouldn't buy a book from someone writing about writing that writes awkward/grammatically incorrect sentences like the one above. Also your background doesn't "checkout". You're writing about writing for software engineers, but how long have you been a software engineer? 3 years? 5 years?
Again, my comments are a little harsh, but this has to stop with people filling the internet with useless content, making it harder and harder to find good content.
[0] (https://philipkiely.com/essays/black-belt-white-belt.html)
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#45"Throughout college, also I have sought physical engagement outside of martial arts, taking up climbing and lifting." [0] Not to be harsh, but I wouldn't buy a book from someone writing about writing that writes awkward/grammatically incorrect sentences like the one above. Also your background doesn't "checkout". You're writing about writing for software engineers, but how long have you been a software engineer? 3 ye…
Thank you for taking the time to let me know how to improve my writing. Would you be so kind as to provide editorial feedback on other pages on my site? I look forward to incorporating your suggestions next time I revise my work.
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#46"Throughout college, also I have sought physical engagement outside of martial arts, taking up climbing and lifting." [0] Not to be harsh, but I wouldn't buy a book from someone writing about writing that writes awkward/grammatically incorrect sentences like the one above. Also your background doesn't "checkout". You're writing about writing for software engineers, but how long have you been a software engineer? 3 ye…
One sentence and an arbitrary background check is not enough to determine that content is useless and not good in my opinion.
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#47Writing seems to be the single best thing you can do as a professional, in other areas as well. I know people who were hired because of a single Medium article that got a lot of traction (and made that person sort of a reference in the industry). What do you think about videos? I see lifestyle channels for devs and tech workers taking off but do you think there's a chance the same might happen for more technical chan…
Forced pace is a huge problem for videos. If you encounter a paragraph that you already know all about in an article, you can skip it. If you encounter a section of a video like that, it's harder to skip so I'll end up trying to sit through it, getting bored, then distracted, and then who knows what I'll miss. The 'killer feature' of writing is the ability to self-pace. To me that makes them orders of magnitude more…
It depends on how the video is structured. You should divide a video into sections and index them the same way you would with a book.
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#48Something, something, “Build your brand by writing.” Something, something, “Communicating with words is as important as communicating with code in a team setting.” But moving up Maslow’s Hierarchy, writing about ideas you want to personally explore (a’la pg) is exactly how you force yourself to think those ideas through. It’s valuable in its own right, whether people read them and shower you with the “three Ps” or no…
What are the three P's?
Re: Show HN: Writing for Software Developers
#49Something, something, “Build your brand by writing.” Something, something, “Communicating with words is as important as communicating with code in a team setting.” But moving up Maslow’s Hierarchy, writing about ideas you want to personally explore (a’la pg) is exactly how you force yourself to think those ideas through. It’s valuable in its own right, whether people read them and shower you with the “three Ps” or no…
What are the three P's?
Re: Show HN: Writing for Software Developers
#50Writing seems to be the single best thing you can do as a professional, in other areas as well. I know people who were hired because of a single Medium article that got a lot of traction (and made that person sort of a reference in the industry). What do you think about videos? I see lifestyle channels for devs and tech workers taking off but do you think there's a chance the same might happen for more technical chan…
Forced pace is a huge problem for videos. If you encounter a paragraph that you already know all about in an article, you can skip it. If you encounter a section of a video like that, it's harder to skip so I'll end up trying to sit through it, getting bored, then distracted, and then who knows what I'll miss. The 'killer feature' of writing is the ability to self-pace. To me that makes them orders of magnitude more…
The killer feature of video is to bring in multiple pages of connected concepts and quickly tie them together, along with emotional emphasis.