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Equipping students and writers with tools of power and productivity

Docwright

I am a technical writer, a documentation engineer if you will, an aspiring docwright. I have 10+ years of experience in the fast-paced environment of the tech-startup industry. I enjoy distilling poorly written, complex topics into simple, easy-to-read, memorable bites for laymen. Docwright is where I try to make complicated but invaluable concepts I’ve learnt along the way “as simple as possible, but not simpler” (Albert Einstein). You’ll find in here topics directly or indirectly related to writing, mostly the latter, things I wish I knew before I started my career.

Motivation

I hope to equip students and writers with tools that increase their productivity and privacy. Solutions to common problems of productivity and privacy are available, but what is often lacking is someone to bridge the gap between the subject-matter experts and the laymen. Most documentation sites are written by developers for developers.

There are times when all that is needed is for information to be brought to light. Simply making knowledge public could even save a life. Then there are times when all that is needed is for things to be said more clearly; “anything that can be said can be said clearly” (Ludwig Wittgenstein). Then there are times when, more often than not, all that is needed is for information to be arranged in the order of importance. As finite creatures, there's only so much time we have. And when you get down to it, there's really not a lot one needs to know to complete a task, achieve a goal, or attain significant success. Ordering is crucial. “Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things” (C. S. Lewis). In short, many problems can be solved by simply bringing the truth to light, expressing it more clearly, and ordering it more rightly.

Bridging the gap between the SMEs and plebs, is essentially what technical writing, or writing in general, concerns itself with: craft sentences and present them rightly and tastefully, to help yourself and others get shit done and make the world a better place.

A request

I’m not a dev, at least not yet; and all the code here is vibe-coded with Opus or Fable. It was fun initially, but these models seem to have devolved into These platforms have gathered knowledge from the Internet are now attempting to pull the ladder up behind them; when “ai-fed, human-finished” (Jack Dorsey). I can’t wait for local LLMs to become a viable alternative. But until then, dear devs and security experts, could you please help us laymen out. If we can’t stop the Fabians from taking over everything, let us know when its time to jump ships.

“We reject: kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code.” — David Clark, 1992

i want to help empower everyone to write and publish more, with a strong note about your desire to publish should be non-existent in comparison to your desire to understand.

if you’re building your reputation ’ll be another voice if you tell me

Contact

You can write to me at ijake-47@proton.me

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