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Show HN: Writing for Software Developers

267 points by philipkiely 6y ago

philipkiely 6y ago
Hi HN, I have been working on Writing for Software Developers for six months and I'm so excited to finally launch it! I set myself the goal of launching before my (now virtual) university graduation and I'm proud to have hit that goal by six days. Right now the book is 12 dollars off (launch pricing) and you can read chapter 1 for free at https://philipkiely.com/assets/files/wfsd_chapter1_sample.pdf https://philipkiely.com/assets/files/wfsd_chapter1_sample.pd... The book features interviews with 11 people, including @patio11 (Patrick McKenzie), who had the following to say about Hacker News. This quote is from Chapter 15, which covers promoting your work: "At one point I was the number two user on Hacker News. I might have slipped down to number three...I think that people underrate Hacker News massively. I think there is a meme in the community that Hacker News threads are populated by toxic commenters and that it is a ceaselessly negative place such that the world would be better without Hacker News in it. I think unequivocally Hacker News is an extraordinary venue for value creation throughout the world, largely by bringing together technologists who would not have otherwise met each other. There are people who make lifelong relationships from that site. I met my former co-founders there; Thomas Ptacek is one of my best friends for life; and it feels extremely unlikely that I would have my current job but for Hacker News. I think you could say that for many people who are nowhere close to being quote-unquote on the leaderboard. Hacker News helps disseminate ideas, like my ideas on sales and engineering career optimization and the body of practice that is dealing with venture funding, both from the startup side of the fence and from the investor side of the fence. These things would be difficult to get access to unless you had a high-quality social network that already had an expert about them in it. It is basically one step short of miraculous that you could find George Grellas, who is an expert Silicon Valley lawyer practicing for thirty years, and have George Grellas patiently walk you through the impacts of the changes in the independent contractor classification in the wake of Microsoft abuses in the 1990s. By the way, George Grellas was a practicing lawyer for Microsoft. That I could read that as a person who was newly an independent contractor working in central Japan in the late 2000s/early 2010s is one step short of miraculous. I'll acknowledge that there are certain threads that are generally low quality, mostly things that are removed from the core interests of the technology industry. It's not a particularly great watering hole to talk about politics, for example. But, for the things it does well, Hacker News does them better than plausibly any place in the world...I wish more people who could get value out of Hacker News were active there." Thanks to all eleven people who provided interviews for the book. Thank you for checking out my project! I'll be around to answer any questions.
- DmitryOlshansky 6y ago
  That’s a lot to unpack, I hope you have a blog or twitter link handy. Keep it rolling!
- Pandabob 6y ago
  Excellect choice interviewing Matt Levine. Can't wait for that.
- petercooper 6y ago
  Congratulations, Philip :-)
  - philipkiely 6y ago
    Thank you, and thank you for the interview!
- swyx 6y ago
  thats awesome, congrats on launching! as a fellow soon-to-be first time gumroad author - what was your tech stack for writing and publishing? i tried Ulysses and Scrivener and Leanpub and wasn't happy with any of them. looking to go from markdown to PDF/Epub/Mobi with good control over table of contents, footnotes, and linking between chapters. i have a list of alternatives to explore.. just wondering what worked for you? also - how did you mock up that book cover art on the landing page?
  - philipkiely 6y ago
    I wrote in Markdown as well. I turned that into a microsoft word doc that I formatted then created the PDF. I used pandoc to create the EPUB, then calibre to make the MOBI from the EPUB. I tried to use pandoc to make the PDF but it did not go well, word was surprisingly easy to use for that. The cover art was created by a friend of mine from college. I used https://diybookcovers.com/3Dmockups/ https://diybookcovers.com/3Dmockups/ to make the image on the landing page.
- patio11 6y ago
DmitryOlshansky 6y ago
I wanted to just automatically say booring! But then I clicked the link and I love it, thank you! It’s short, simple and to the point. My personal holy trinity. See you around)
- DmitryOlshansky 6y ago
  Downvotes? Love it)
  - dang 6y ago
    Please don't break the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
tdrgabi 6y ago
I didn't carefully read the whole article, scanned through it and read the comments. Sorry if I missed the answer. Is this an intro / "how to" book about technical writting, or a book with a series of interviews with good writers. In the same genre as "Founders at work"?
- philipkiely 6y ago
  Both! The first act is step-by-step on how to write technical tutorials. The second act is examples of that process. The third act is about the business of writing. All of that is a book that I wrote, but does rely heavily on block quotes from interview subjects, plus 30,000 of my own words :) Then, the appendix contains all of the interview transcripts, totaling 45,000 words.
  - tdrgabi 6y ago
    Thank you for clarifying
sixhobbits 6y ago
Hey Philip, really great to see you run with this! I know you mentioned to me that this repository[0] where I try to keep a short list of publishers that pay for this kind of writing was an early inspiration and I'm still hoping to grow that list a lot after June when I spend more time focusing on technical writing too. As others have said, that's a really great looking list of interviewees. My only question is where this actually fits in to the rest of the book? It's not that clear from the Table of Contents. Could you comment on what percentage of the book is interviews, compared to writing advice? [0] https://github.com/sixhobbits/technical-writing/blob/master/write-for-us.md https://github.com/sixhobbits/technical-writing/blob/master/...
- philipkiely 6y ago
  The table of contents outlines the book, which is about 30,000 of my words and 28,000 words of interview excerpts. Then, the appendix contains the full transcripts of all 11 interviews, 45,000 words (which does overlap with the interview excerpt word count from earlier).
chpmrc 6y ago
Writing seems to be the single best thing you can do as a professional, in other areas as well. I know people who were hired because of a single Medium article that got a lot of traction (and made that person sort of a reference in the industry). What do you think about videos? I see lifestyle channels for devs and tech workers taking off but do you think there's a chance the same might happen for more technical channels as well? I find technical videos (like talks or tutorials) to be far more engaging than articles but I'm afraid I'm part of a very small minority.
- philipkiely 6y ago
  I have very little experience with making videos, but some of my interview subjects do! Chris on Code makes great technical videos and livestreams. There is a bit of information specific to video in the book, but I think the information about the planning, outlining, and editing of technical content would be helpful to people making video.
  - eykd 6y ago
    Scriptwriting is just a particular form of writing, so any process you've developed would work whether someone is writing technical tutorials for video or sonnet form. :D
    - philipkiely 6y ago
      Funny you should mention sonnets, Chapter 8 develops an example technical tutorial on generating sonnets by remixing Shakespeare's work.
      - eykd 6y ago
        That's what inspired me. :) I'm really curious to read this.
- ashnehete 6y ago
  Personal opinion on video v/s text channel. While watching a video, I have to follow a linear path, I can't skip much incase I miss some context. On the other hand, its easier to skim written content.
AminPhakhruddin 6y ago
Hey Philip, Congrats on the launch of your new book. Will probably be checking out the first chapter after work. As I've been hanging out more online, I've realized the increasing importance of writing. Even as a developer, writing seems to be a differentiating factor. Other than your book, what are some other resources that you relied on in order to build up your skills as a writer? Or did you just rely on reading and emulating people's works.
- philipkiely 6y ago
  Hey! Thanks for checking it out. One of the reasons I wrote this book was because there were so few resources for me starting out. I mostly relied on my experience as a journalist with my college's newspaper plus the training we got in CS classes on writing good documentation.
eykd 6y ago
Hey Philip, this is great. I'm curious, what tools did you use to produce the book?
- philipkiely 6y ago
  I wrote in Markdown. I turned that into a microsoft word doc that I formatted then created the PDF. I used pandoc to create the EPUB, then calibre to make the MOBI from the EPUB. I tried to use pandoc to make the PDF but it did not go well, word was surprisingly easy to use for that. The cover art was created by a friend of mine from college. I used https://diybookcovers.com/3Dmockups/ https://diybookcovers.com/3Dmockups/ to make the image on the landing page.
santiagobasulto 6y ago
Amazing! Just purchased it. Thanks Phillip. Question on the side: does anybody know of a good app that could "read" the epub for me? I feel like I could listen to these interviews while doing chores at home.
- philipkiely 6y ago
  Thanks for the support! I hope you enjoy it
- shacrw 6y ago
  This app @Voice Aloud Reader is great for all kinds of docs. You can even long press paras in Chrome Android and in the long-press menu there'll be an option for Reading it Aloud. epub,PDF etc. supported too, all details in app description. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hyperionics.avar&hl=en_IN https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hyperionic...
xueyongg 6y ago
Keep writing!! I've personally started my journey into content creation as a software engineer just this year! To be more focused, I found a growing passion for Design Patterns and started writing my learning about them. Hope to share the same passion with you! Keep going pal! Would love to hear some tips from you! Here's my site, and hope it encourages you all! https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/post/2020-05-03-3-more-cloud-design-pattern https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/post/2020-05-03-3-more-cloud-de...
- rhlsthrm 6y ago
  This is so cool! I’ve just started myself (still putting together my blog). I really want to learn functional programming, maybe writing about it would be a good way to start on my journey too!
  - xueyongg 6y ago
    I'm definitely supporting you on this idea! I've learnt so much through "Learn as you teach" methodology. Do share your site once you have started it (: Oh and personally, as a way to learn my frontend development skill, I also created my blog from scratch through a frontend framework! You can consider that as well
braythwayt 6y ago
Something, something, “Build your brand by writing.” Something, something, “Communicating with words is as important as communicating with code in a team setting.” But moving up Maslow’s Hierarchy, writing about ideas you want to personally explore (a’la pg) is exactly how you force yourself to think those ideas through. It’s valuable in its own right, whether people read them and shower you with the “three Ps” or not. So write, and write often. Do not spend great amounts of time carefully choosing what yo write. Just write, and incorporate feedback into your work. Revise endlessly, much as one refactors software endlessly. Do not write about things that don’t interest you just because you get more up-boats for “How to use Flibbitz in a managed K8s container with XML configuration,” unless Flibbitz personally interests you. Write about what tickles your brain, and keep at it incessantly. What little (and it’s not much in the scale of things) success I’ve had writing essays and books can all be traced back to writing about things I personally care about.
- deleted 6y ago
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- wappa 6y ago
  What are the three P's?
  - andrei_says_ 6y ago
    Yes, which? https://www.google.com/search?q=the+three+p%27s+of+writing&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS590US590&oq=the+three+ps+of+wr&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0.15813j0j7&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=the+three+p%27s+of+writing&r...
    - severine 6y ago
      Haha, yeah! I'm having a blast looking at the search results... Planet, People, Profit. People, process, product People, Process, Performance Management Personalization, Permanence, Pervasiveness Polydipsia, Polyuria, Polyphagia Product, Price, Place and Promotion Preserve / Prevent / Promote Prediction, Protection, Preparation Purpose, Process, Product Protect, Procreate, Provide. Protect, Provide, Profess Pee, Paper, Poo Purity, Patience, Perseverance Provision, Protection, Participation Presence, Promises, Power Of God Piracy, Portability, Profitability Presentation, Planning, Processing But still no idea... OP, which is it?
liamN 6y ago
Wowowow! I've only read the FREE first chapter so far, but honestly, I'm pretty hooked. If the rest of the book is as useful and well-written as the first chapter (which I suspect it is) then the price is a steal. Following this book's advice in writing your own tech articles will earn you your money back from buying it within a couple of weeks. Well done philipkiely!
_Understated_ 6y ago
The purchase link isn't working for me. I get a certificate error. Edit: It appears that by connecting via my VPN, it gives me a certificate error when the link redirects via gum.co... goes away when I disable it. Seems worrying...
- philipkiely 6y ago
  I'm sorry you experienced difficulty purchasing it. If you are still having issues you can email me philip@kiely.xyz I'll see what I can do.
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suyash 6y ago
The website says "Earn money, make connections, and get noticed.The rates I earn from writing, usually $250 to $500 per article, add up." What are some ways to do that exactly?
spacedog 6y ago
"Throughout college, also I have sought physical engagement outside of martial arts, taking up climbing and lifting." [0] Not to be harsh, but I wouldn't buy a book from someone writing about writing that writes awkward/grammatically incorrect sentences like the one above. Also your background doesn't "checkout". You're writing about writing for software engineers, but how long have you been a software engineer? 3 years? 5 years? Again, my comments are a little harsh, but this has to stop with people filling the internet with useless content, making it harder and harder to find good content. [0] (https://philipkiely.com/essays/black-belt-white-belt.html https://philipkiely.com/essays/black-belt-white-belt.html)
- philipkiely 6y ago
  Thank you for taking the time to let me know how to improve my writing. Would you be so kind as to provide editorial feedback on other pages on my site? I look forward to incorporating your suggestions next time I revise my work.
- soneca 6y ago
  One sentence and an arbitrary background check is not enough to determine that content is useless and not good in my opinion.
- deleted 6y ago
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- Sophistifunk 6y ago
  > this has to stop with people filling the internet with useless content Good luck with that!

267 points by philipkiely 6y ago

Hi HN, I have been working on Writing for Software Developers for six months and I'm so excited to finally launch it! I set myself the goal of launching before my (now virtual) university graduation and I'm proud to have hit that goal by six days. Right now the book is 12 dollars off (launch pricing) and you can read chapter 1 for free at https://philipkiely.com/assets/files/wfsd_chapter1_sample.pdf https://philipkiely.com/assets/files/wfsd_chapter1_sample.pd... The book features interviews with 11 people, including @patio11 (Patrick McKenzie), who had the following to say about Hacker News. This quote is from Chapter 15, which covers promoting your work: "At one point I was the number two user on Hacker News. I might have slipped down to number three...I think that people underrate Hacker News massively. I think there is a meme in the community that Hacker News threads are populated by toxic commenters and that it is a ceaselessly negative place such that the world would be better without Hacker News in it. I think unequivocally Hacker News is an extraordinary venue for value creation throughout the world, largely by bringing together technologists who would not have otherwise met each other. There are people who make lifelong relationships from that site. I met my former co-founders there; Thomas Ptacek is one of my best friends for life; and it feels extremely unlikely that I would have my current job but for Hacker News. I think you could say that for many people who are nowhere close to being quote-unquote on the leaderboard. Hacker News helps disseminate ideas, like my ideas on sales and engineering career optimization and the body of practice that is dealing with venture funding, both from the startup side of the fence and from the investor side of the fence. These things would be difficult to get access to unless you had a high-quality social network that already had an expert about them in it. It is basically one step short of miraculous that you could find George Grellas, who is an expert Silicon Valley lawyer practicing for thirty years, and have George Grellas patiently walk you through the impacts of the changes in the independent contractor classification in the wake of Microsoft abuses in the 1990s. By the way, George Grellas was a practicing lawyer for Microsoft. That I could read that as a person who was newly an independent contractor working in central Japan in the late 2000s/early 2010s is one step short of miraculous. I'll acknowledge that there are certain threads that are generally low quality, mostly things that are removed from the core interests of the technology industry. It's not a particularly great watering hole to talk about politics, for example. But, for the things it does well, Hacker News does them better than plausibly any place in the world...I wish more people who could get value out of Hacker News were active there." Thanks to all eleven people who provided interviews for the book. Thank you for checking out my project! I'll be around to answer any questions.

DmitryOlshansky 6y ago
That’s a lot to unpack, I hope you have a blog or twitter link handy. Keep it rolling!
Pandabob 6y ago
Excellect choice interviewing Matt Levine. Can't wait for that.
petercooper 6y ago
Congratulations, Philip :-)
- philipkiely 6y ago
  Thank you, and thank you for the interview!
swyx 6y ago
thats awesome, congrats on launching! as a fellow soon-to-be first time gumroad author - what was your tech stack for writing and publishing? i tried Ulysses and Scrivener and Leanpub and wasn't happy with any of them. looking to go from markdown to PDF/Epub/Mobi with good control over table of contents, footnotes, and linking between chapters. i have a list of alternatives to explore.. just wondering what worked for you? also - how did you mock up that book cover art on the landing page?
- philipkiely 6y ago
  I wrote in Markdown as well. I turned that into a microsoft word doc that I formatted then created the PDF. I used pandoc to create the EPUB, then calibre to make the MOBI from the EPUB. I tried to use pandoc to make the PDF but it did not go well, word was surprisingly easy to use for that. The cover art was created by a friend of mine from college. I used https://diybookcovers.com/3Dmockups/ https://diybookcovers.com/3Dmockups/ to make the image on the landing page.
patio11 6y ago

DmitryOlshansky 6y ago

I wanted to just automatically say booring! But then I clicked the link and I love it, thank you! It’s short, simple and to the point. My personal holy trinity. See you around)

DmitryOlshansky 6y ago
Downvotes? Love it)
- dang 6y ago
  Please don't break the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

tdrgabi 6y ago

I didn't carefully read the whole article, scanned through it and read the comments. Sorry if I missed the answer. Is this an intro / "how to" book about technical writting, or a book with a series of interviews with good writers. In the same genre as "Founders at work"?

philipkiely 6y ago
Both! The first act is step-by-step on how to write technical tutorials. The second act is examples of that process. The third act is about the business of writing. All of that is a book that I wrote, but does rely heavily on block quotes from interview subjects, plus 30,000 of my own words :) Then, the appendix contains all of the interview transcripts, totaling 45,000 words.
- tdrgabi 6y ago
  Thank you for clarifying

sixhobbits 6y ago

Hey Philip, really great to see you run with this! I know you mentioned to me that this repository[0] where I try to keep a short list of publishers that pay for this kind of writing was an early inspiration and I'm still hoping to grow that list a lot after June when I spend more time focusing on technical writing too. As others have said, that's a really great looking list of interviewees. My only question is where this actually fits in to the rest of the book? It's not that clear from the Table of Contents. Could you comment on what percentage of the book is interviews, compared to writing advice? [0] https://github.com/sixhobbits/technical-writing/blob/master/write-for-us.md https://github.com/sixhobbits/technical-writing/blob/master/...

philipkiely 6y ago
The table of contents outlines the book, which is about 30,000 of my words and 28,000 words of interview excerpts. Then, the appendix contains the full transcripts of all 11 interviews, 45,000 words (which does overlap with the interview excerpt word count from earlier).

chpmrc 6y ago

Writing seems to be the single best thing you can do as a professional, in other areas as well. I know people who were hired because of a single Medium article that got a lot of traction (and made that person sort of a reference in the industry). What do you think about videos? I see lifestyle channels for devs and tech workers taking off but do you think there's a chance the same might happen for more technical channels as well? I find technical videos (like talks or tutorials) to be far more engaging than articles but I'm afraid I'm part of a very small minority.

philipkiely 6y ago
I have very little experience with making videos, but some of my interview subjects do! Chris on Code makes great technical videos and livestreams. There is a bit of information specific to video in the book, but I think the information about the planning, outlining, and editing of technical content would be helpful to people making video.
- eykd 6y ago
  Scriptwriting is just a particular form of writing, so any process you've developed would work whether someone is writing technical tutorials for video or sonnet form. :D
  - philipkiely 6y ago
    Funny you should mention sonnets, Chapter 8 develops an example technical tutorial on generating sonnets by remixing Shakespeare's work.
    - eykd 6y ago
      That's what inspired me. :) I'm really curious to read this.
ashnehete 6y ago
Personal opinion on video v/s text channel. While watching a video, I have to follow a linear path, I can't skip much incase I miss some context. On the other hand, its easier to skim written content.

AminPhakhruddin 6y ago

Hey Philip, Congrats on the launch of your new book. Will probably be checking out the first chapter after work. As I've been hanging out more online, I've realized the increasing importance of writing. Even as a developer, writing seems to be a differentiating factor. Other than your book, what are some other resources that you relied on in order to build up your skills as a writer? Or did you just rely on reading and emulating people's works.

philipkiely 6y ago
Hey! Thanks for checking it out. One of the reasons I wrote this book was because there were so few resources for me starting out. I mostly relied on my experience as a journalist with my college's newspaper plus the training we got in CS classes on writing good documentation.

eykd 6y ago

Hey Philip, this is great. I'm curious, what tools did you use to produce the book?

philipkiely 6y ago
I wrote in Markdown. I turned that into a microsoft word doc that I formatted then created the PDF. I used pandoc to create the EPUB, then calibre to make the MOBI from the EPUB. I tried to use pandoc to make the PDF but it did not go well, word was surprisingly easy to use for that. The cover art was created by a friend of mine from college. I used https://diybookcovers.com/3Dmockups/ https://diybookcovers.com/3Dmockups/ to make the image on the landing page.

santiagobasulto 6y ago

Amazing! Just purchased it. Thanks Phillip. Question on the side: does anybody know of a good app that could "read" the epub for me? I feel like I could listen to these interviews while doing chores at home.

philipkiely 6y ago
Thanks for the support! I hope you enjoy it
shacrw 6y ago
This app @Voice Aloud Reader is great for all kinds of docs. You can even long press paras in Chrome Android and in the long-press menu there'll be an option for Reading it Aloud. epub,PDF etc. supported too, all details in app description. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hyperionics.avar&hl=en_IN https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hyperionic...

xueyongg 6y ago

Keep writing!! I've personally started my journey into content creation as a software engineer just this year! To be more focused, I found a growing passion for Design Patterns and started writing my learning about them. Hope to share the same passion with you! Keep going pal! Would love to hear some tips from you! Here's my site, and hope it encourages you all! https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/post/2020-05-03-3-more-cloud-design-pattern https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/post/2020-05-03-3-more-cloud-de...

rhlsthrm 6y ago
This is so cool! I’ve just started myself (still putting together my blog). I really want to learn functional programming, maybe writing about it would be a good way to start on my journey too!
- xueyongg 6y ago
  I'm definitely supporting you on this idea! I've learnt so much through "Learn as you teach" methodology. Do share your site once you have started it (: Oh and personally, as a way to learn my frontend development skill, I also created my blog from scratch through a frontend framework! You can consider that as well

braythwayt 6y ago

Something, something, “Build your brand by writing.” Something, something, “Communicating with words is as important as communicating with code in a team setting.” But moving up Maslow’s Hierarchy, writing about ideas you want to personally explore (a’la pg) is exactly how you force yourself to think those ideas through. It’s valuable in its own right, whether people read them and shower you with the “three Ps” or not. So write, and write often. Do not spend great amounts of time carefully choosing what yo write. Just write, and incorporate feedback into your work. Revise endlessly, much as one refactors software endlessly. Do not write about things that don’t interest you just because you get more up-boats for “How to use Flibbitz in a managed K8s container with XML configuration,” unless Flibbitz personally interests you. Write about what tickles your brain, and keep at it incessantly. What little (and it’s not much in the scale of things) success I’ve had writing essays and books can all be traced back to writing about things I personally care about.

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wappa 6y ago
What are the three P's?
- andrei_says_ 6y ago
  Yes, which? https://www.google.com/search?q=the+three+p%27s+of+writing&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS590US590&oq=the+three+ps+of+wr&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0.15813j0j7&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=the+three+p%27s+of+writing&r...
  - severine 6y ago
    Haha, yeah! I'm having a blast looking at the search results... Planet, People, Profit. People, process, product People, Process, Performance Management Personalization, Permanence, Pervasiveness Polydipsia, Polyuria, Polyphagia Product, Price, Place and Promotion Preserve / Prevent / Promote Prediction, Protection, Preparation Purpose, Process, Product Protect, Procreate, Provide. Protect, Provide, Profess Pee, Paper, Poo Purity, Patience, Perseverance Provision, Protection, Participation Presence, Promises, Power Of God Piracy, Portability, Profitability Presentation, Planning, Processing But still no idea... OP, which is it?

liamN 6y ago

Wowowow! I've only read the FREE first chapter so far, but honestly, I'm pretty hooked. If the rest of the book is as useful and well-written as the first chapter (which I suspect it is) then the price is a steal. Following this book's advice in writing your own tech articles will earn you your money back from buying it within a couple of weeks. Well done philipkiely!

_Understated_ 6y ago

The purchase link isn't working for me. I get a certificate error. Edit: It appears that by connecting via my VPN, it gives me a certificate error when the link redirects via gum.co... goes away when I disable it. Seems worrying...

philipkiely 6y ago
I'm sorry you experienced difficulty purchasing it. If you are still having issues you can email me philip@kiely.xyz I'll see what I can do.

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suyash 6y ago

The website says "Earn money, make connections, and get noticed.The rates I earn from writing, usually $250 to $500 per article, add up." What are some ways to do that exactly?

spacedog 6y ago

"Throughout college, also I have sought physical engagement outside of martial arts, taking up climbing and lifting." [0] Not to be harsh, but I wouldn't buy a book from someone writing about writing that writes awkward/grammatically incorrect sentences like the one above. Also your background doesn't "checkout". You're writing about writing for software engineers, but how long have you been a software engineer? 3 years? 5 years? Again, my comments are a little harsh, but this has to stop with people filling the internet with useless content, making it harder and harder to find good content. [0] (https://philipkiely.com/essays/black-belt-white-belt.html https://philipkiely.com/essays/black-belt-white-belt.html)

philipkiely 6y ago
Thank you for taking the time to let me know how to improve my writing. Would you be so kind as to provide editorial feedback on other pages on my site? I look forward to incorporating your suggestions next time I revise my work.
soneca 6y ago
One sentence and an arbitrary background check is not enough to determine that content is useless and not good in my opinion.
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Sophistifunk 6y ago
> this has to stop with people filling the internet with useless content Good luck with that!