A reader reached out to me the other day to talk about the future of tech writing as a profession. They asked me a pretty good question: What skills would you prioritize in this age of constant change and uncertainty? Is it AI? Maybe coding? Well, not really. passo.uno/tech-needs-h...

Tech needs humanists more than ever

Whoever speaks badly, thinks badly and lives badly. We must find the right words: words are important! —Nanni Moretti A reader reached out to me the other day to talk about the future of tech writing...

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A reader reached out to me the other day to talk about the future of tech writing as a profession. They asked me a pretty good question: What skills would you prioritize in this age of constant change and uncertainty? Is it AI? Maybe coding? Well, not really. passo.uno/tech-needs-h...

Tech needs humanists more than ever

Whoever speaks badly, thinks badly and lives badly. We must find the right words: words are important! —Nanni Moretti A reader reached out to me the other day to talk about the future of tech writing...

passo.uno

How Language Models in epistemic process enclosure and sabotage human sense-making - a math edition mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1172078...

What I think every time I read GPT Astra. I wonder if Anthropic will release Fiesta 6.0.

A 20-year-old camera, the Ricoh Caplio GX100. I'm going to enjoy this one.

Asked Claude to describe what I do in the style of philosopher Slavoj Zizek: "You are a Content Engineer, which is already, my God, a beautiful ideological formation. A writer who engineers. It means: you are allowed to touch the machine, but only in order to remain a writer. And so on and so on."

I'm going to ask Claude to always write like Slavoj Zizek from now on.

I don't know why I've reopened my Flickr account. Place is a cemetery.

Episode X of Phase One is out! passo.uno/episode-x-ph...

Episode X of Phase One: Agent traffic, llms.txt, and the solitude problem

Tenth episode of the AI & Docs podcast series is up! In this one, Tom and I talk with Ethan Palm, the only technical writer at Mintlify, about what changes when nearly half the traffic to a docs site ...

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Please have a look at Manny Silva's docmeta proposal for docs metadata! hawkeyexl.github.io/docmeta/prop...

Current status:

I don't recommend crossing Fable 5.1 with a base prompt that says "always write in STE 100". It resulted in a sort of American Psycho monologue. So yeah, it got better at following style prompts.

我是愛中文! (I've been learning it for some days now, so of course I'm being naively enthusiastic. It feels good to compose simple sentences and recognize some characters already.)

I sometimes think of writing a trojan horse book — like something a business type would read, but with a tech writing value message. Then I would hate myself for having written business fiction, but...

:) noaifridays.com

Go read CT Smith book! wtfmbook.com

I see increasing efforts to create skills or systems that deslopify GenAI content, such as Declaude and others. While I think this can only have limited effect, it's good that AI is forcing us to talk about what good writing means, and where and when AI generated content is okay.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX_t...

The Duke Arrives / Barricade

YouTube video by John Carpenter - Topic

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:( www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/a...

Yayoi Kusama, Japanese Pop Artist Known for Polka-Dot Paintings, Dies at 97

The Japanese artist’s polka-dot covered paintings, phallic sculptures and public performances caused a stir in New York City and Europe in the 1960s.

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Must have! acceptmarkdown.com

Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers

Serve Markdown to AI agents and LLMs via the Accept: text/markdown header. Browsers get HTML, agents get clean Markdown.

acceptmarkdown.com

I don't care where in the world you live. If you've something interesting to say or you're doing cool stuff, you are my favorite neighbor.

This

I don't know about you, but reading stuff from before 2017 is like reading stuff from 1997. The innocence.

Good day. photos.passo.uno

You've set up a conference and invited me to guest speak. What should I talk about? Wrong answers also acceptable.

📉 🟪

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Name a band using only emojis 🤌🏻❔ (se è troppo blasfema tolgo)

As a psychologist and content engineer, I find this project extremely inspiring. Way to go, @j11y.io ! nope.net

NOPE – An observatory for human–AI relationships

NOPE measures how conversations between people and AIs are going, for both parties, and publishes what it finds: benchmarks, incident records, open-weight models.

nope.net

This feels like home.

One of my favorite essays. journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/medi...

The Median Isn’t the Message

Reprint of Stephen Jay Gould's essay “The Median Isn't the Message.”

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When creating agentic workflows, I feel like I'm building an Ork spaceship from Warhammer, put together using just sheer willpower and scrap. It's a miracle it runs at all.