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"published": "2026-03-20T17:00:00-07:00",
"url": "https://nadreck.me/2026/03/on-technical-writing/",
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"name": "On Technical Writing",
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"text": "I don\u2019t talk about my day job all that often. What I\u2019m doing currently is software development \u2013 specifically, I write tools and create infrastructure for a documentation team. This ranges from writing deployment pipelines and build scripts to writing extensions for the writing software we use, to building out sites and wrangling server configurations. I enjoy it, and I like that the role is broad, where what exactly I\u2019m working on can vary a lot from day to day, depending on what needs to take priority. Prior to my current role, however, I was a technical writer \u2013 one of the folks writing the docs, and I wanted to talk about that a bit, as I think it\u2019s a great role that I think a lot of folks might overlook.\n\n\n\n Continue reading \u201cOn Technical Writing\u201d",
"html": "<p>I don\u2019t talk about my day job all that often. What I\u2019m doing currently is software development \u2013 specifically, I write tools and create infrastructure for a documentation team. This ranges from writing deployment pipelines and build scripts to writing extensions for the writing software we use, to building out sites and wrangling server configurations. I enjoy it, and I like that the role is broad, where what exactly I\u2019m working on can vary a lot from day to day, depending on what needs to take priority. Prior to my current role, however, I was a technical writer \u2013 one of the folks writing the docs, and I wanted to talk about that a bit, as I think it\u2019s a great role that I think a lot of folks might overlook.</p>\n\n\n\n <a href=\"https://nadreck.me/2026/03/on-technical-writing/#more-12186\">Continue reading<span> \u201cOn Technical Writing\u201d</span></a>"
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"name": "Nadreck",
"url": "http://nadreck.me",
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