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So you just built a super-mega robot project that you want to share with the world. Super! But now you’re faced with an entirely new and different problem: documenting the …read more Continue reading Sharing Your Projects With The World: How?
Ever wondered what, exactly, goes into creating a technical book? If you’d like to know the steps that bring a book from idea to publication, [Sara Robinson] tells all about …read more Continue reading Learn All About Writing a Published Technical Book, From Idea to Print
From confining plasma for nuclear fusion to solving 50-year protein folding problems, DeepMind’s AI is starting to prove itself on the frontiers of modern science. To aid research into the history of human writing, the company has now turned its techno… Continue reading Google’s DeepMind AI fills in the blanks on broken ancient texts
While it would be great if teachers could spend lots of time with each of their students, the fact is that children often end up doing most of their handwriting exercises unsupervised. A new system may help address that problem, utilizing a “smart” pen… Continue reading KIHT tech could teach children how to put pen to paper
In 1945, a new invention that had helped to win the Second World War went on sale in the United States and Britain. First seen as an expensive novelty, it soon went on to become not only a part of our everyday lives, but one that revolutionized how we … Continue reading The Biro, the invention that changed the writing game
An intriguing new study from a team of Japanese researchers suggests handwriting on paper leads to greater brain activity and memory retention compared to handwriting with a stylus on a tablet. The researchers hypothesize the richer spatial details of … Continue reading Study indicates pen & paper beats stylus & screen for memory retention
A guide for writing better technical articles + blog posts
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One of the questions I get the most in my Twitter DMs is “How do I write better technical blog posts”?
Technical writing is a specialist skill, and I am by no m… Continue reading Writing for the Web
New research has analyzed brainwave patterns in both children and young adults while they wrote by hand and as they typed on a keyboard. The results revealed distinctly different brain patterns between the activities, leading the researchers to suggest… Continue reading EEG study finds brain activity differences between handwriting and typing
Heads up all you enterprising enterprise software startuppers. You have only 24 hours before the price goes up on tickets to TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019. Save $100 and join us in San Francisco on September 5 — along with some of the industry’s top founders, CEOs, investors and technologists. Buy your early-bird ticket before 11:59 […] Continue reading Only 24 hours left to save $100 on TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019
Archive of Our Own is a finalist in the prestigious Hugo award’s Best Related Works category—which means thousands of fanfics are Hugo finalists. Continue reading An Internet Fan Fiction Archive Is Nominated for a Hugo