Technical writer role at Nava

https://jobs.lever.co/nava/d4b02af9-5271-4690-991b-c36cc3dbaf79

Dear #developers (and #productmanagement that enables this) - if you're too lazy to remove a dead or unfinished feature that is *visible* to the user... and got QA to ignore/bless it....

Don't. TAKE IT OUT. HIDE with a registry flag. DO ANYTHING don't just leave it fucking sitting there.

- Sincerely, the #technicalwriter who has to put "Oh this button right here? Ignore that it doesn't do anything" in the help/manual/marketing material.

It looks like shit and it makes us look like morons.

#introduction (en version)

CN image: eye contact

hi, I'm void (they/them), admin of this instance
- adult, white, mostly able-bodied, #neurodivergent, #vegan, #ADHD, #depression, #trans, #NonBinary
- I support #intersectional, anti-racist, anti-ableistic, anti-capitalistic #feminism, #LGBTQIA+ rights, and left-progressive thinking.
- #Minecraft, #Anime
- #streamer, #artist, #TechnicalWriter
- I'm hilariously unfunny

https://voided.ee/

@failedLyndonLaRouchite I use Beyond Compare for *source* comparison. As a #technicalwriter I author in #DITA which is an xml specialization; nice because I can use the same toolchains and repos as my dev teams.

And BC *can* diff PDFs almost as well as Acrobat (in some cases better), so long as you're ok with it having scraped all the text out of it to do so. Which may or may not be what you want, but in that case, y not just diff the source.

I am not 100% sure why I love being a tech writer. When I tell my journo and writer friends what I do their eyes glaze over and they subtly hint it's the most boring/terrifying job they've heard of.
But I think I love it because I am a #PKM, #Tech and #ContentManagement freak. Meaning, I have OCD tendencies when it comes to words and I had a secret desire to be a coder but never went all the way.
Which makes me oddly suited for the role

#Introduction

I'm just a guy with a lot of hobbies - #brewing, growing stuff, making #vinegar, collecting #AncientCoins, #photography, #boardgames, #ComputerGames, and much more.

I need a new hobby like I need a new hole in the head, but I am also powerless to resist when a new hobby strikes. Such is life.

I work as a #TechnicalWriter at a Danish software company. I have three clever and independent children who shout at me a lot, and a wife who doesn't. We live a happy normie-life in suburbia.

Back in the before-times I studied #linguistics at #AarhusUniversity. I think about #AncientRome and #AncientGreece probably every hour or so.

I'm a recently retired technical writer, which I was for a long time as a freelance and contractor, working for over 80 clients.

My background is in #chemistry, which I taught and researched at postdoctoral level, with a later postgraduate degree in computing.

Topics I am interested in: #Shropshire #Shrewsbury #technicalwriter #brexit #climate #science #computingscience #IT #geology #philosophyofscience #nudism #naturism #bisexual #humanism

Heya! This is my #introduction

Living in the Ruhr region #ruhrgebiet, in the very West of #germany.

I work as a #TechnicalWriter and create/edit instruction manuals.

I enjoy my workouts in the #gym and since I live #carfree, #cycling is a regular thing. I like the entire topic of #mobility, with #transit, #trains, #urbanism, and #maps. #Sustainability is relevant, I'm a #vegetarian since 2005.

But then I love #tech, and #smarthome stuff, enjoy #languages, and #politics too.

Sometimes, when I see what's on a #Jira ticket, I think this.

My biggest takeaway from running a #TechnicalWriter #BookClub on #accessibility over at the #WriteTheDocs Slack community is that I cannot type accessbility correctly more than once per day.

It is surprising how one TINY new feature can cause a big ripple effect through user documentation.

Just discovered that Ted Chiang was a #TechnicalWriter and feel oddly proud

The manic look you get when you get to experience something novel.

Ok, so my #office installed "office pods" and OF COURSE I HAD TO TRY IT OUT to live out my self-isolationist, anti-social fantasies and pretend that I'm in a spacepod.

It's been 7 months since I started my job as a #TechnicalWriter and I am still loving it. Grateful every day.

Never knew that tinkering with the minutiae of software and writing about it would give me such joy! Then again, I adore tinkering with #Obsidian so that was a clue!

Looked back at my old diaries where I angsted about feeling lost & not knowing what to do besides #journalism & #contentmarketing and wanted to tell my past self that I will find the answer eventually.

It is a fact of #Tech life that when you're showing your boss in a zoom call how a bug has been preventing you from doing something at work, said bug will unbug itself right there and then.

Working with software engineers be like:
Engineer: I just [coding gobledygook]
Me: That's so cool!
Now explain to me like I'm two.

If there's one advice I'd give content writers who want to transition to #technicalwriting -> Get used to figuring out software. The more difficult, the better. Because that's what we do, even more than writing.
That's part of the reason why I'm trying to build a static #Website even if there are far easier ways to do it. The docs are mostly barely there, so you have to figure things out a lot, research research ...

I'm such a sucker for punishment.

Nearly 5 months in as a #technicalwriter & I'm excited to work every day. Grateful to have made the change.

I think the job just utilises all my strengths: My fanatical need and desire to create and organise information, figuring things out & teaching others what I've learned. I'm the sort of person where, if you throw me a tech problem or a new software, gets super thrilled. I told a friend what I do, and she said nothing horrifies her more than doing what I do lol.

My week before Christmas as a #technicalwriter

Apparently, everyone suddenly believes it's time for KBs, FAQs and guides to be made. YAY

New #introduction toot, since I moved over to my own instance:

I'm Mike. He/him, il/lui. I live on unceded and unsurrendered Wolastoqey territory. I'm #bisexual and #polyamorous. I have two partners, one kid, one dog. I have #adhd. I'm a #technicalwriter, mostly working in #dita, and I code a little in #python. I write fiction and poetry on the side. I play #dnd and #bass. I like #hiking, #linux, #dogs, #DoctorWho, #StarWars, #reading, #history, etc.