E-grāmata: Writing for Developers: Blogs that get read

Tested and pragmatic methods for writing blogs, articles, and other technical pieces that stand out from the crowd!

Do you want to connect with your community, show off your state-of-the-art achievements, and help your peers benefit from your hard-fought lessons learned? Do you want to get the kind of attention that expands your career? Master the art of writing engineering blog posts and articles! This unique guide shows you how to create the kind of content your fellow developers will love to read and share.

Writing for Developers is full of the tips, tricks, and techniques you need to translate the ideas floating around your head into content that’s clear and compelling, including how to:

• Zero in on topics that make intriguing posts
• Apply popular blog post design patterns
• Rapidly plan, draft, and review drafts
• Make your content clearer and more convincing to technical readers
• Tap AI for revision while avoiding misuses and abuses
• Increase the impact of all your technical communications

Whether you’re brand new to writing, or a seasoned hand who wants more attention for your work, Writing for Developers will help ensure your writing resonates with readers. The book introduces seven popular formats for modern blogs, such as “The Bug Hunt”, “We Rewrote It in X”, and “How We Built It …”, and assists in matching these “design patterns” with your ideas. You’ll learn how to effectively brainstorm, how to promote and amplify your blog posts, and even ways to use AI to support your writing and reviewing process. You’ll walk away prepared to communicate more effectively with your colleagues, users, and peers across the community.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the book

Writing for Developers will help you turn your great technical insights into amazing blogs and articles. Authors Piotr Sarna and Cynthia Dunlop combine their differing perspectives as an engineer and professional writer to help you write compelling works. This isn’t a generic writing guide—from start to finish, the book is laser-focused on technical topics, writers, and audiences.

You’ll learn through fun examples, amusing illustrations, and plenty of jokes! The book covers the entire writing process, from generating and prioritizing ideas, to what you should be thinking about while planning, writing and revising, to using a successful blog post as a stepping stone to further opportunities.

About the reader

For developers and engineers of all ability levels—even if you’re not a native English speaker and never took a writing class in your life.

About the author

Piotr Sarna is a fearless technologist who dives headfirst into fun engineering challenges like forking SQLite for modern distributed apps, introducing Rust & Wasm into C++ projects, and contributing to the Linux kernel. He’s an experienced book author, tech reviewer, speaker, and blog author. Piotr graduated from University of Warsaw with an MSc in Computer Science.

Cynthia Dunlop has been writing for and with developers for 20+ years, covering topics across C/C++, Java, testing, DevOps, and back-end infrastructure. She’s behind several technical books, hundreds of articles, and countless blogs. Cynthia holds a BA from UCLA and an MA from Washington State University, where she taught writing once upon a time.