woollymallard

My team at Daily is actually hiring for this, although I don't see the ad on the site yet (https://www.daily.co/jobs#open-positions)

We're distributed and largely async. My day to day work includes creating demos with our APIs and writing technical blog posts about them, helping maintain our docs, and helping other teams write about what they're working on. I'd been interested in technical writing for a long time, but was hesitant to apply for any of these kinds of roles because I thought it might mean giving up engineering to just write about other people's code. What drew me to this particular role is knowing that I was going to be programming as well as writing. It's been great so far, recommend checking it out if you're interested in that kind of work.

I just took up a position involving coding and technical writing and it's been great! I've been keeping my own tech and life blog for years and have been getting more into writing, but have been hesitant to apply for technical writer positions because I didn't want to fully give up code either. I wanted both.

So far it's been a really great balance of coding and writing, and it's been really nice to switch between modes. I'm still feeling quite stressed and time-pressured as my first two projects involved creating quite large demos in a language I hadn't used in a while (and then writing about them!), but I think I'll find a nice mental load balance there with more practice.

I have no concrete plans to move anywhere, but just knowing that I _could_ easily pick up and go anywhere I want without commute or general work location being a deciding factor has been so freeing.

I know how you feel. I was just trying to make a demo a bit nicer looking for work: "Uhh...maybe if I add rounded corners...?"

Nice to see so many interesting suggestions here!

I think the best way to learn how to write better is to read a lot and write a lot. Personally, I believe keeping a blog for the last ~13 years (both for technical posts and also just a life journal of sorts) has greatly helped to improve my writing. Maybe that could be a good way for you to start practicing? Keep a blog or a journal (doesn't have to be public if you're not comfortable with that) and just write down your thoughts, or things you learned, or maybe things you felt you wanted to communicate in writing at work but didn't get a chance to in the moment.