Blog
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Mission, vision, and values - for a solo freelancer?
careers
consultancy
professional development
Reflections on a ZingTrain webinar on creating a mission, vision, and values for your company.
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Hacktoberfest 2020
hacktoberfest
hackathon
open source
write the docs
A virtual hackathon for Hacktoberfest 2020.
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Become a tech writer: a quickstart guide
technical writing
technical author
careers
professional development
In the spirit of a code quickstart, this is a quick, opinionated, description of one possible tech writing learning path.
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Setting up the Huawei Honor Band 5
huawei
mobile
wearables
The steps for setting up the Huawei Honor Band 5 are not simple if you don't have a Huawei phone. This short article provides workarounds for a few issues, including Huawei Health and Huawei Mobile Services not running, and the missing oximeter.
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Deploy a MadCap Flare webhelp to Netlify
netlify
madcap flare
Sharing a sample project and quickstart for how to deploy a MadCap Flare webhelp output to Netlify's hosting.
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Deploying MkDocs with Material theme to Netlify
technical writing
jamstack
netlify
Key points when deploying MkDocs projects to Netlify.
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Getting the most out of online communities
networking
consultancy
Some tips for networking, learning and living in online professional communities.
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Starting a new TDD Laravel project
Laravel
Test driven development
TDD
My personal Laravel quickstart, for a Laravel project with test driven development.
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Decisions in a short doc
technical writing
An insight into the number of decisions a tech writer makes, even in a short document.
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Edit a file on GitHub
github
open source
How to make small edits directly on GitHub.
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How to 'exit' git branch
git
Using git branch can bring up a long list of branches. This is how to 'exit' the list.
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Hacktoberfest 2019
hacktoberfest
hackathon
open source
write the docs
A virtual hackathon for Hacktoberfest 2019.
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AWS CLI errors on Windows 10
aws
aws cli
windows
Two issues when getting up and running with AWS CLI on Windows 10: no module named awscli.clidriver and unknown encoding: idna.
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When Curl isn't Curl
curl
powershell
windows
Invoke-WebRequest
Curl in PowerShell and Curl elsewhere are not the same thing.
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Vilnius 2019 notes: Legacy docs
conference
write the docs
legacy docs
Notes from the legacy docs conference talk at Write the Docs Vilnius 2019
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Vilnius 2019 notes: Internal docs
conference
write the docs
dev docs
internal docs
Notes from the dev docs conference talk at Write the Docs Vilnius 2019
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Vilnius 2019 notes: Documenting a new field
conference
write the docs
greenfield
new field
Notes from the documenting a new ecosystem talk at Write the Docs Vilnius 2019
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Vilnius 2019 notes: Microcopy
conference
write the docs
microcopy
Notes from the microcopy conference talk at Write the Docs Vilnius 2019
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Why the short blog posts?
blogging
My blogging inspiration and purpose.
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Option selection bug in CLIs on Windows
Node.js
Windows 10
Windows CMD
Powershell
Windows
When you can't use your arrow keys to select options in CMD or Powershell.
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Find and remove AWS services
AWS
Check what AWS services you are using, and remove them.
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Create a Hugo shortcode
Hugo
tutorial
static site generator
Learn about Hugo shortcodes, and build a simple example.
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GDPR
cookies
analytics
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