rekiwi
@rekiwi.bsky.social
Tech writer, cyclist, solder junky, woodworker, airplane nut, dad, hubby, half-Kiwi (mom's side). Not in priority order. (he/him)
Profile pic: bearded white dude with maniacal expression; hair, eyes, teeth glowing blue under blacklight.
Profile pic: bearded white dude with maniacal expression; hair, eyes, teeth glowing blue under blacklight.
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rekiwi
@rekiwi.bsky.social
· Mar 13
Yes, You Can Jump-start a Car with a Prius: A Technical-Communication Hero Story | Writing.Rocks
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"the right information in the right place at the right time" I want a tattoo of this somewhere prominent.
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#techWriterLife #technicalWriting
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#techWriterLife #technicalWriting
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Nope. Do the Kiwi thing and ask your guests to bring a plate. Something for everyone to eat. Just get a bit organised before hand so you don't get 12 pies.
November 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Nope. Do the Kiwi thing and ask your guests to bring a plate. Something for everyone to eat. Just get a bit organised before hand so you don't get 12 pies.
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Point of view: you’ve chosen to attend my talk about moving from being an individual contributor into a manager role, hoping to learn a few tips.
This is the second slide.
This is the second slide.
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Point of view: you’ve chosen to attend my talk about moving from being an individual contributor into a manager role, hoping to learn a few tips.
This is the second slide.
This is the second slide.
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Docs-as-code writers wonder how to contain the seemingly inescapable wave that could bury their backlogs in AI slop. The answer could lie in taking a stance. This means crafting an AI policy for docs.
passo.uno/ai-docs-poli...
passo.uno/ai-docs-poli...
You need an AI policy for docs
The dam of AI-written doc contributions might be about to break. It’s already cracking for code, with posts wondering how to review a vibe-coded pull request consisting of nine thousand new lines of c...
passo.uno
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Docs-as-code writers wonder how to contain the seemingly inescapable wave that could bury their backlogs in AI slop. The answer could lie in taking a stance. This means crafting an AI policy for docs.
passo.uno/ai-docs-poli...
passo.uno/ai-docs-poli...
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Very weird to ask professors to both research and teach. “Hey, introvert who communes with rocks/microbes/people who died centuries ago - could you also perform up here on stage for several hours to an audience who doesn’t want to be there? Thanks!”
September 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Very weird to ask professors to both research and teach. “Hey, introvert who communes with rocks/microbes/people who died centuries ago - could you also perform up here on stage for several hours to an audience who doesn’t want to be there? Thanks!”
🔥🔥Buying a Piece of Shit🔥🔥
Best chapter title ever. I must find a way to work this into my user-facing docs. #techWriterLife #technicalWriting #writeTheDocs
Best chapter title ever. I must find a way to work this into my user-facing docs. #techWriterLife #technicalWriting #writeTheDocs
I have submitted my book manuscript! And then, of course, immediately come down with a cold. I told my classes today that if I collapsed at the lectern to just leave me there so I could get a little nap.
November 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
🔥🔥Buying a Piece of Shit🔥🔥
Best chapter title ever. I must find a way to work this into my user-facing docs. #techWriterLife #technicalWriting #writeTheDocs
Best chapter title ever. I must find a way to work this into my user-facing docs. #techWriterLife #technicalWriting #writeTheDocs
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Kindness is underrated.
November 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Kindness is underrated.
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The video of my Write the Docs talk is up! Hope you'll find it useful. :-) passo.uno/failing-well...
Failing Well: A Practical Guide to Growth for Technical Writers
I really enjoyed speaking at Write the Docs Berlin this year. My talk was a bit special, a message in a bottle for writers who are struggling — for anyone who’s struggling in their careers, really. He...
passo.uno
November 6, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The video of my Write the Docs talk is up! Hope you'll find it useful. :-) passo.uno/failing-well...
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Wearing my favorite t-shirt.
November 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Wearing my favorite t-shirt.
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I promise that I'm a professional and that you should trust me to write for your publication.
#WriterSky #Writing
#WriterSky #Writing
November 4, 2025 at 7:18 AM
I promise that I'm a professional and that you should trust me to write for your publication.
#WriterSky #Writing
#WriterSky #Writing
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This is a good reminder.
November 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This is a good reminder.
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Back when Aotearoa New Zealand was voting via referendum on whether or not to ditch First Past the Post for Mixed Member Proportional for our voting system, the cartoonist Murray Ball put out the below comic.
I see those telling New Yorkers not to vote for Zohran Mamdani and think on this comic.
I see those telling New Yorkers not to vote for Zohran Mamdani and think on this comic.
November 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Back when Aotearoa New Zealand was voting via referendum on whether or not to ditch First Past the Post for Mixed Member Proportional for our voting system, the cartoonist Murray Ball put out the below comic.
I see those telling New Yorkers not to vote for Zohran Mamdani and think on this comic.
I see those telling New Yorkers not to vote for Zohran Mamdani and think on this comic.
Terrorists have taken over a building. You get to select one song to blast from speakers on a continuous loop to try to get them to surrender.
Copy and quote-post with the name of the song.
"Aserejé (album version)" by Las Ketchup
Copy and quote-post with the name of the song.
"Aserejé (album version)" by Las Ketchup
Terrorists have taken over a building. You get to select one song to blast from speakers on a continuous loop to try to get them to surrender.
Copy and quote-post with the name of the song.
"Sexyback," by Justin Timberlake
Copy and quote-post with the name of the song.
"Sexyback," by Justin Timberlake
Terrorists have taken over a building. You get to select one song to blast from speakers on a continuous loop to try to get them to surrender.
Copy and quote-post with the name of the song.
I choose: "Come out and Play” by Offspring.
Copy and quote-post with the name of the song.
I choose: "Come out and Play” by Offspring.
November 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Terrorists have taken over a building. You get to select one song to blast from speakers on a continuous loop to try to get them to surrender.
Copy and quote-post with the name of the song.
"Aserejé (album version)" by Las Ketchup
Copy and quote-post with the name of the song.
"Aserejé (album version)" by Las Ketchup
Found a cheap Halloween costume that fit! Of course it severely limited mobility, interaction, & (most important) access to food & drink. Plus the battery pack pooped out after an hour. Still, it was fun while it lasted & I could pop home & return as "generic RenFaire guy" to continue the revelry.
November 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Found a cheap Halloween costume that fit! Of course it severely limited mobility, interaction, & (most important) access to food & drink. Plus the battery pack pooped out after an hour. Still, it was fun while it lasted & I could pop home & return as "generic RenFaire guy" to continue the revelry.
While decluttering, our daughter pulled out the PS2. I recluttered with an HMDI adapter, but wife & I enjoyed listening to our adult kids whoop it up over a 20-year-old Naruto fighting game. Strong nostalgia for when video games drove engagement in your living room. #ps2 #retrogaming #retrogame
November 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
While decluttering, our daughter pulled out the PS2. I recluttered with an HMDI adapter, but wife & I enjoyed listening to our adult kids whoop it up over a 20-year-old Naruto fighting game. Strong nostalgia for when video games drove engagement in your living room. #ps2 #retrogaming #retrogame
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Said this to a colleague. Then re-read myself and realized I'm Data from Star Trek.
"For some reason, folks behave differently once they've seen you in 3D (which puzzled me to no end, but I've learned to consider it useful)."
"For some reason, folks behave differently once they've seen you in 3D (which puzzled me to no end, but I've learned to consider it useful)."
a man in a yellow shirt stands in front of a screen that says science
ALT: a man in a yellow shirt stands in front of a screen that says science
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October 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Said this to a colleague. Then re-read myself and realized I'm Data from Star Trek.
"For some reason, folks behave differently once they've seen you in 3D (which puzzled me to no end, but I've learned to consider it useful)."
"For some reason, folks behave differently once they've seen you in 3D (which puzzled me to no end, but I've learned to consider it useful)."
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we ate a lot of Acadian and British food growing up, and I just assumed that we were poor. Then I got a little older and realized my parents made those foods to celebrate their cultural heritage. Now I realize that our main cultural heritage was being poor.
October 29, 2025 at 12:36 AM
we ate a lot of Acadian and British food growing up, and I just assumed that we were poor. Then I got a little older and realized my parents made those foods to celebrate their cultural heritage. Now I realize that our main cultural heritage was being poor.
Headline: Why the 996 schedule is capturing the interest of Silicon Valley leadership
Short answer: because they are sociopaths.
Short answer: because they are sociopaths.
October 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Headline: Why the 996 schedule is capturing the interest of Silicon Valley leadership
Short answer: because they are sociopaths.
Short answer: because they are sociopaths.
Hoping the bus that takes me home shows up today. Also hoping the bus driver knows the route this time. It's the small things, really.
October 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Hoping the bus that takes me home shows up today. Also hoping the bus driver knows the route this time. It's the small things, really.
RIP Prunella Scales. Her Sybil Fawlty in "Fawlty Towers" was a huge part of my childhood: "Basil!"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Fawlty Towers actress Prunella Scales dies aged 93
Scales played hotel manager Sybil Fawlty, the bossy wife of Basil, in the classic British sitcom.
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October 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
RIP Prunella Scales. Her Sybil Fawlty in "Fawlty Towers" was a huge part of my childhood: "Basil!"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Anyway, the bill for Reconstruction has come due and the price is a cold civil war for not meaningfuly addressing the ills of the hot one all them years ago.
October 28, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Anyway, the bill for Reconstruction has come due and the price is a cold civil war for not meaningfuly addressing the ills of the hot one all them years ago.
My daughter is teaching me how to play Magic the Gathering since she moved back. After 30 years on the outside, I finally get it. Won my first game last night with some super lucky draws and key advice from my son. Good clean family fun. #mtg
October 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
My daughter is teaching me how to play Magic the Gathering since she moved back. After 30 years on the outside, I finally get it. Won my first game last night with some super lucky draws and key advice from my son. Good clean family fun. #mtg
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October 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Everybody's so hyped about Write the Docs Berlin. First in-person WtD event since 2019. It's going to be like Lost's finale. A bit. I may cry a bit, yes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNo4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNo4...
Lost - The final scene [6x18 - The End Part 2]
YouTube video by Artem Baranov
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October 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Everybody's so hyped about Write the Docs Berlin. First in-person WtD event since 2019. It's going to be like Lost's finale. A bit. I may cry a bit, yes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNo4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNo4...
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Me after cosplaying as an extrovert
October 24, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Me after cosplaying as an extrovert