Re:The Elephant at WWDC
by lanstin on Sunday June 13, 2021 @12:45PM
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I sort of think this except I had a job for several years where we had really good technical writers who would sit with various developer and produce far more accessible writing than I ever have.
It is valuable for my career to be able to write somewhat well but I am hired and earn my salary in other ways, debugging weird technical things; two days experiments, code reading, and maybe gdb and then one small PR and a short email explaining the issue. Write some nice network server to solve a network issue; implement some feature in a maintainable way. Etc. lot of work and mostly the way of thinking about it is a small piece of that work.
The tech writers made a small book that could be handed and/or emailed to people who then integrated with my API with no further interaction between me and them. It was very helpful.
It is valuable for my career to be able to write somewhat well but I am hired and earn my salary in other ways, debugging weird technical things; two days experiments, code reading, and maybe gdb and then one small PR and a short email explaining the issue. Write some nice network server to solve a network issue; implement some feature in a maintainable way. Etc. lot of work and mostly the way of thinking about it is a small piece of that work.
The tech writers made a small book that could be handed and/or emailed to people who then integrated with my API with no further interaction between me and them. It was very helpful.