Hark, learned reader! 've created a Chrome extension that rewrites any doc into an Old English manuscript. Hope you enjoy this practical joke. :-)

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Copilot agent ignores exact APM skill invocation form and still emits skill(name) · Issue #27566 · github/gh-aw Summary In a gh-aw workflow using: engine: copilot APM-imported skills via shared/apm.md a prompt that explicitly instructs the agent to invoke skills using the exact form skill(skill: <name>) …the...

I'm so bleeding edge that I'm trying stuff that apparently hasn't been tested yet and doesn't work. github.com/github/gh-aw...

Gordon Ramsey, technical writing, and the importance of people who care rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/202...

Sulaco crew

Bought this one though. @rekiwi.bsky.social high five?

You know you're a huge nerd when the references in nerdy tshirt shops look extremely boring to you.

What makes docs beautiful? Docs are often thought of as a purely functional artifact, a packet of content that, when it works, it’s not remembered at all. Those who consume documentation, however, can tell whether a manual or d...

Our craft has hyperfocused on function for so long that the discourse has gotten brutalist. We argue about tools and commas but don’t ask what makes users return to the docs.

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What makes docs beautiful? Docs are often thought of as a purely functional artifact, a packet of content that, when it works, it’s not remembered at all. Those who consume documentation, however, can tell whether a manual or d...

Our craft has hyperfocused on function for so long that the discourse has gotten brutalist. We argue about tools and commas but don’t ask what makes users return to the docs.

passo.uno/what-makes-d...

What makes documentation beautiful? Not necessarily talking about visuals or design, though those could be aspects. Also not seeking to establish whether beauty matters or not; just wondering what beauty means to you in docs.

Ese libro tiene una pinta estupenda.

Oh, shut up. :)

GitHub

I feel quite excited about this. Better life through checkboxes + reusable agentic workflows. Been working on this for a while.

They are — I'm a big fan. We need to get them back.

Claude 4.7 is great, but it still comes with a pile of em dashes.

GitHub

I feel quite excited about this. Better life through checkboxes + reusable agentic workflows. Been working on this for a while.

Mistborn is fantastic.

Slack quote

Something something big responsibility.

The lethal combo that will make any tech writer faint: "Please — we strongly recommend that you do not disable the whitelist!"

The Kinks - Supersonic Rocket Ship (Audio) YouTube video by TheKinksVEVO

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I don't know. I'm fueled by a lot of wrong things, wired up in a way that somehow propels me forward like a funky rocket. In retrospect, I would have taken things way less seriously.

Someone in the WtD Slack said they've been laid off and now have six months to do stuff. It made me realize that getting a break like this when I was younger would have been great for my health. But I've been working non-stop for the last 18 years.

Don't do that, kids. Don't follow my example.

I don't need Mythos. I don't need Gemini 5. I need a good local LLM with solid tool-call capabilities that can run on consumer hardware.

“Skills are just the beginning [...] Skills will become part of something bigger where you have a personality, you have long-term memory, you have the whole complete package of a full agent.”

Super fun episode with Larah Vasquez and @tomjoht.bsky.social !

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Codex

That moment of the day where I feel like Emperor Palpatine.

High fantasy map of tech writing

Three years ago I published a high fantasy map of technical writing. The world has moved quite a bit since then.

I felt like an update was long overdue, so I sat down, fired up an editor and created a new version. Can you find yourself in it?

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Beautiful machines.

Office

Office

Cleaned up my home office a bit.

My three kids (11, 7, 4) set up a planetarium session at home. They told me to lie down, started the projector, and took turns to explain galaxies, stars, and planets.

Parenthood is hard and unforgiving, but moments like this make it totally worth it.

I dislike being serious for too long. Life is too short for highbrowness.