A colleague recently asked how I find time to blog about technical writing after hours. The answer is surprisingly simple: I prioritize writing above other things. I could have posted that exchange on social media and called it a day, but there’s more nuance to that simple reply. Let me elaborate, it might be useful.| passo.uno
Writing for LLMs is the new SEO obsession. Not a day passes without seeing some question popping up in tech writing communities about how to best compose content for AI scrapers. Folks even wonder if a different style guide should be necessary, or whether tables should be avoided because they’ve seen a pull request rejected in a Microsoft repository on the silliest grounds.| passo.uno
For the first time since I started this blog, I’m writing some predictions on software technical writing for next year. Not because I think they’ll be accurate—they never are—but because the exercise reveals what we’re concerned about and what we hope to tackle. Predictions are to-do lists in disguise: they highlight challenges we’re determined to overcome. Plus, they’re fun to write. So here are my predictions for 2025, knowing I’ll enjoy being proven wrong.| passo.uno