Your documentation belongs with your code
Why technical documentation belongs alongside the code it describes, and how that improves maintenance.
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Clear, Concise, Complete, and Correct: Avoiding AI Slop
Why polished but generic AI writing can be exhausting, and how clear, concise, complete, and correct writing helps.
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Year 5: May 2018 - May 2019
In my last few posts, I’ve walked down memory lane, and talked about a ton of great successes I’ve had in my five years as blogger & speaker. It’s been fun to reminisce about how far I’ve come and brag about some success. Today’s post has a bit of a different …
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Year 4: May 2017 - May 2018
In Year Three, I had a pretty big year. I kind of felt like I had peaked. I had received the Community Influencer of the Year Award and Microsoft MVP Award. Where do you go from there? Mostly, I just wanted to keep up what I was doing, and keep sharing what I …
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Year 3: May 2016 - May 2017
In Year Three, my goal was to keep focused on what I learned in the FreeCon the year before, and keep moving forward with speaking and blogging. I was putting a bit more effort into my speaking (and thus easing off on the blogging some).
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Year 2: May 2015 - May 2016
In Year 1, I only wrote 6 blog posts. In Year 2, I decided to take things seriously, and kicked things into high gear. During this 12-month period, I wrote 36 blog posts--my best 12-months as far as pace & productivity in these five years.
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Year 1: May 2014 - May 2015
I've lost my blog stats for that first year, so I can't say exactly how many visitors I had. I can say that the number of views was so low that it didn't matter. If I were going to offer a generous estimate, I would guess I got whopping 100 page views in year …
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Blogging on a whim
On May 16, 2014, I bought a domain on a whim. I'd been sitting in the NOCC at my employer, helping with maintenance. I was waiting on another team to perform their task, and champing at the bit. Over the next week, I set up a Blogger website, tied my domain to …
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What the heck is downtime, anyway?
What counts as downtime from a user’s perspective, beyond whether a server is technically online?
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SQL: A love story
I’m a college drop-out. When I was trying to figure out my life, a friend (my brother’s ex) referred me to a software company where she was working–I got the job because I was (a) breathing, (b) eager to do the job, and (c) cheap. The application we built and …
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