You are a very skilled technical writer. One way to discern this is asking at a given point, "What question just likely popped into their mind after what they have read?" (you don't have to be right, just close) ... and importantly, "Do they need a little break from the main outline?" Your brief tangents in light blue are a perfect answer to both questions. Your terminal examples show what things really look like, or…
I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs
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I'm glad you enjoyed it! > It's also a very good idea to write these types of resources when you teach yourself something new because it clarifies your thought process and helps you identify parts that are still unclear even though you initially thought you understadn them etc. I found this to be very much the case. As I wrote the article, I discovered so many things that I didn't properly understand. It partially to…
The most important reason to write this while learning is that you only once have the questions of someone who doesn't know the topic. As soon as you learn it, you forget what it was like to not know it. Fron that point on, you've always known it. That's why writing down all your questions while learning is extremely important for then teaching.
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#323We don't have HackClub here where I live, thus I never heard of it, but what they do sounds awesome and inspires me to promote it or even start it here (especially since there's no HackClub in Ukraine).
Thank you for sharing this experience, it was one of the best reads I had in a while!
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#324Very nice guide! I love your writing style, and your research skills are clearly top-notch. Great stuff! You might enjoy reading some articles by Julia Evans ( https://jvns.ca/ ), who has a similar informal, conversational, exploratory style. Stay curious!
I am very glad you liked it! Julia Evans is one of my biggest inspirations ever. I have a lot of her zines. SHE ACTUALLY READ MY ARTICLE EARLIER AND I JUST ABOUT EXPLODED https://twitter.com/b0rk/status/1689331862487932928
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#327Wow, so because you're 17 we should click on this article? I was 17 also some time ago
" Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead. " " Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html