The first Manchester-based Write the Docs workshop was a huge success. We had eight people attend who all wanted to learn more about documentation – specifically the version-control platform GitHub. I hosted it along with my...
If you’ve been following along, you understand why you might want to contribute to open source projects, and you understand the nature of open source communities. You’ve also perhaps found your target open source...
If you read my previous post on the theory of contributing to open source software projects, you may now be ready to contribute to open source. But not yet! First you need a cognitive guide and a practical guide. The stages of...
I’ve wanted to make my first pull request on GitHub for a long time. I had been held back out of total fear of failure. I’d used GitHub during a practice project I did in my Ruby on Rails course in 2016 with Code...
This is a post to announce a new Write the Docs meetup for technical writers and anyone else at all with an interest in writing documentation. It will be held in Manchester on 27 June at The Molly House. I will be hosting this...
I’m now a two-time conference-goer to Write the Docs and I wanted to share my experiences of being part of this wonderful community. I went to Write the Docs Prague 2017 in Czech Republic, and Write the Docs Portland...
Businesses need to hire freelance writers, but stumble when it comes to working out what they should pay. The sheer number of job titles out there adds more confusion and there are no official rates published anywhere. The...
I’ve struggled with coding tutorials for a long time. My difficulty with them is not from lack of trying. I’ve got some thoughts on why many people don’t click with them and what could be done differently. Why...
The women in tech movement is not about getting more women into techie roles because it’s a nice thing to do. The reason it’s fuelled so intensely is because it’s about an imbalance of power in society, and it...
Game design is one of the most exciting industries these days, with the global gaming industry expected to garner around £82.8 billion in revenues in 2017. Still, for women and other groups, the industry can seem daunting...
Catherine is a freelance writer based in Manchester. She specializes in B2B SaaS content writing and copywriting. She writes B2B SaaS blog posts that help generate more traffic and get more leads.