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Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti
@theletterf.bsky.social
Docs engineer. Tech writer. Collector of old manuals. Retrocomputing enthusiast. Opinions my own, etc. Don't panic! My blog is https://passo.uno
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"And if your OSS contributions do lead to your dream job, like they did for me, remember to balance the scales one last time. Pass on your knowledge to new contributors and especially to new tech writers. Pay it forward."

Tiffany Hrabusa at @writethedocs.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqry...
Tiffany Hrabusa - A beautiful arrangement: Gaining experience & giving back through open source docs
YouTube video by Write the Docs
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November 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I'm alternating between Bob Ross energy and Goblin energy.
November 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This is the kind of inane bullshit we've to stop.
November 19, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Fever. :(
November 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I love you, Zig language's devs.
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Augmentation means opening doors faster, not crashing through them.
November 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Want to read drama? See Wikipedia editors debate how to deal with LLM written articles. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia talk:Writing articles with large language models - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models#c-Викидим-20251104203700-Mesocarp-20251104151200
November 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I want to think this is a phase, that stakeholders will realize what's wrong with this. We'll need to persuade them, and advocate, and explain why we've drawn lines — because we need to draw lines.
November 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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“The bar for what counts as documentation gets lower every time we pretend these outputs are good enough.”

Yep. There’s the key: the pressure to use AI to generate docs depends on pretending that the outputs are good enough.
November 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I'm experiencing a strange kind of anxiety since I use LLMs, which appears when I'm out of ideas on how to use it. It's like having a superpower and not knowing who needs to be saved. Or having a car but no roads.
November 15, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I see this as a clever code summarization tool. They're careful not to call this "docs" but "wiki", which is a way of saying "this is a repo byproduct you can talk to".

developers.googleblog.com/en/introduci...
Introducing Code Wiki: Accelerating your code understanding- Google Developers Blog
Accelerate code understanding with Code Wiki's automated, intelligent, and integrated wiki platform for code repositories.
developers.googleblog.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Added a more entertaining 404 error to my blog.
November 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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📹 We've published videos and photos of Write the Docs Berlin, and this is your last chance to get a conference t-shirt. Thanks to all participants of the conference, in-person and online! Read more in our recap:
Berlin 2025 Recap - Talk Videos, Photos, CoC Report
Hi everyone, Our team is slowly emerging from the post-conference recovery period, and we wanted to send out a quick message to thank everyone for helping to make Write the Docs Berlin 2025 such a ...
buff.ly
November 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Nope, our SSH keys aren't broken all of a sudden. It's a GitHub hiccup: www.githubstatus.com/incidents/1j...
Some users may experience failing git push and pull operations.
GitHub's Status Page - Some users may experience failing git push and pull operations..
www.githubstatus.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Added a more entertaining 404 error to my blog.
November 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Added social buttons to my blog, at last.
November 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Yeah, no, ain't gonna put JS or Python stickers on my Mac.
November 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Found the perfect MacBook Air sticker.
November 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I love the fact that AI companies are burning billions of dollars and yet can only afford to pay an editor for six months.
November 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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⚡️ ✏️ To see Dennis Dawson's (@dennisdawson.bsky.social) visual approach to documentation, check out his lightning talk on why sketchnoting engages both sides of your brain, as well as his sketchnotes from past Write the Docs conferences.

Links in the comments!
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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.NET 10 is available 🎉 This is a Long Term Support version packed again with quite some good features and performance improvements, congrats to the team!

Download it now from dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/downlo...
Download .NET 10.0 (Linux, macOS, and Windows) | .NET
.NET 10.0 downloads for Linux, macOS, and Windows. .NET is a free, cross-platform, open-source developer platform for building many different types of applications.
dotnet.microsoft.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM