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[?]David Bureš » 🌐
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Hey everyone, I'm sorry to come with bad news again, but I really need help

Last year, my employer got bought by American private equity. I saw the writing on the wall then, but now, it became urgent

My whole branch got scrapped yesterday without a warning

I've been working as a Senior Technical Writer for this company for the last 5 years, 7 years in total

I live in Slovenia

If you know of any positions, please tell me

linkedin.com/in/buresdv/

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    [?]Anthony » 🌐
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    I've already moved on a bit from this work, which I did through last year. My thinking has too: what I need to write down already feels like old news to me because I've re-imagined it in a different formal framework that has better properties. This is such a trap and something my PhD advisor warned his students (me) to be wary of yet I'm still enthusiastically diving headfirst into it.

    I have to confess that another dimension of this is the piss poor state of publishing. I find APCs deeply offensive and don't want to face them, but I don't intend to sign away copyright to a predatory publisher either. Something like 12 of my papers are in the libgen database and I'm not keen to stuff a 13th into the blender (then again, good luck trying to make sense of this one with an LLM lol). As a graduate student I found publishing a challenging but exciting opportunity to communicate with peers. Now I find it to be an onerous chore of navigating smarmy vampiric middlemen to get at the valuable things they unjustly control (distribution channels mainly). I feel compelled to publish this one in conventional-ish channels because it's reporting on grant-funded work and I think it merits, and I'd like to have, an archival record.

    Wah wah wah. Like I said, doom loop.


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      [?]Anthony » 🌐
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      I have been poking at writing a paper since late last year and am stuck in a "I know it won't achieve what I want it to achieve" doom loop about it, which is an effective motivation sap. This has happened to me every single time I've written something for publication and I find it very frustrating.

      This is not really a call for advice--I have a thousand and one strategies, both my own and ones suggested to me by mentors and colleagues past--though I love to collect hot tips about how to write more effectively so I'm not opposed either. Mostly just venting because the other window is a blank page.


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        [?]Paolo Amoroso » 🌐
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        Teiva Harsanyi shared his experience with writing a Go book for a tech publisher, Manning.

        When we evaluate something, a coding project, a book, or an illustration, we often forget how much time, energy, and emotion someone may have poured into it. We have no idea what that work cost them.

        read.thecoder.cafe/p/100-go-mi

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          [?]Anthony Dean » 🌐
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          Hello, all. I'm currently looking for a new job. My skills include technical/professional writing, blogging, WordPress, and general clerical skills. Looking for work in the Seattle area; open to remote.

          Portfolio: diversetechgeek.com/portfolio/

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            [?]Miguel Afonso Caetano » 🌐
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            "The big deal with using an MCP server is efficiency: Instead of feeding tools’ output manually with a side of context, MCP lets AI agents become aware of their newly added tool and act on their own, the need for holding their hand disappearing almost magically. The server can also explain how tools interact with each other and how they should be used, which helps recover from errors without human intervention. My server, for example, detects if Vale isn’t installed and suggests how to fix that.

            MCP being a reality, the next step is thinking what tools and knowledge you’d put at your LLM’s disposal, and through which modality. Here are some examples:

            - Provide LLMs with a way of retrieving documentation and its metadata.
            - Convert content from one format to another following a set of templates.
            - Validate code snippets in documentation and keep them up to date.
            - Self-healing documentation (the server reads changelogs and updates the docs).
            - Check documentation for style, formatting, broken links, etc.

            In the case of vale-mcp-server, I’ve noticed that mixing Vale’s deterministic, almost inflexible approach to linting with LLM’s capacity for nuance and finesse is a killer combo."

            passo.uno/mcp-server-docs-tool

              [?]Tea by Name Tea by Nature » 🌐
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              Time for a new as I have moved servers 😀

              My bio boils it down nicely, but long term bean counter still considering a move into technical writing, and finally being able to get back to my many, many interests and connect with similar minded folk:
















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