Across the Techverse #8

Your one stop resource to the technical writing world.

Hello, world!

Welcome to another issue of Across the Techverse, your one-stop resource to stay updated with the most incredible tech writers in Substack and beyond. This week we have exciting news regarding the future of this community and a couple of resources for you.

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🗞 News from The Stack

Our little community of Tech Writers has crossed 290 subscribers, and our directory has 24 blogs and substacks listed!

Last week we activated paid subscriptions. For a small price, you can now support The Tech Writers Stack and help us grow. Here's our foundational post to learn more about our intentions with paid subscriptions.

Support The Tech Writers Stack

And for early adopters, during the whole month of August, we’re running a special promotion with a 50% lifetime discount!

Also, we recently created a Twitter (X) profile for our community. Check us out at @techwriterstack. Make sure to follow and tag us whenever you want a retweet or shout-out. We will follow all the creators registered in our directory and amplify their voices on Twitter.

Finally, remember that we’re hosting the Summer Collaboration Contest all summer. Pick someone you’ve never written an article with and do something cool. Check out this post for details. We’ll have awards!

Summer Collaboration Contest!

🎯 From our Supporters

We thank our supporters for making this newsletter possible and helping the community grow. Please check them out!

Michael Woudenberg

writes about everything that interests him at

Polymathic Being

. You'll always find something counterintuitive to learn, from productivity hacks to artificial intelligence, societal issues, and anything in-between. Plus, he just published his first novel, Paradox, book one of The Singularity Chronicles, a sci-fi look at the birth of AI.

Lance Cummings

is a writing professor who will teach you the hidden art of iSophistry, or how to use technology in your writing to change the way you think at

Cyborgs Writing

. He also runs an online community where he shares materials —like useful prompts— to help you overcharge your writing skills.

Paul Backhouse

is writing from his heart at

COPING WITH CARING

, ranging from his experience as a carer to his interests in technology to op-eds on societal issues. His writing is personal and honest, a bit poetic sometimes, and always a breath of fresh air in your inbox.

Abhinav Upadhyay

writes about computer programming at

Confessions of a Code Addict

, with a wide topic range covering beginner to intermediate interests. He also publishes a weekly digest of recent news and resources from the software development world. His articles are deeply technical but easy to follow.

Stephen Gruppetta

will show the nitty-gritty of the Python programming language a

The Python Coding Stack • by Stephen Gruppetta

. He writes with a unique style, interweaving narrative elements and carefully designed stories with technical topics. If you want to learn his style, he’s spilling the beans on narrative technical writing at

Breaking the Rules

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José J. Rodríguez

writes about artificial intelligence, quantum computing, cryptography, and other hot computer science topics at

Under the Hype

. But he does so without selling you snake oil, diving deep under the surface of the technology, and teaching you the fundamental underlying principles.

🎥 Previously on The Stack

Last week we featured

Abhinav Upadhyay

from

Confessions of a Code Addict

on our Tech Writer Highlight series. Check the post here.

The Tech Writer Highlight - Abhinav Upadhyay

🔍 Discover new tech writers

This week we want to shout a new tech substack added to our directory.

• Technology Should Be Simple: Focusing mainly on the impact of technology in K12 education, with tangents on societal impacts. What impact does all of this technology use and reliance have on our students and our society?

Check the directory for the complete list, and register below.

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Are you a tech writer? Do you want to belong to a community of like-minded writers, find inspiration and help for your writing, and collaborate with others? Leave us a comment to get yourself included.

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🔥 Highlights of the week

This is a list of the coolest articles published in our community last week:

• Goatfury's Futurescapes published 8 articles:

  • Art Before Writing.

  • Personalizing the Passage of Time.

  • My Brief History of Social Media.

  • The Big Kids at the Playground.

  • We've Had This Conversation Before.

  • Inflection Points.

  • The Telegraph.

  • The Observation Problem.

• Polymathic Being published 3 articles:

  • Providing Top Cover Part 2.

  • Paradox: Did AI Write This Book?

  • Providing Top Cover Part 1.

• The Python Coding Stack published 2 articles:

  • Python Quirks? Party Tricks? Peculiarities Revealed….

  • The Mayor of Py Town's Local Experiment: A Global Disaster.

• The AI Observer published 3 articles:

  • How Fine-Tuning is Taκing GPT-4 to New Heights: A Non-Techie's Guide.

  • McKinsey Report: Generative AI to Break Out in 2023.

  • How to Install FastChat on Windows 11: A Step-by-Step Guide.

• Unpacked published Uber Ads: Accelerating the path to profitability.

• The Upgrade published Welcome to the Mattel Cinematic Universe.

• Confessions of a Code Addict published LZ77 Is All You Need? Why Gzip + KNN Works for Text Classification.

• The Software & Data Spectrum published 2 articles:

  • CSS Dictionary - A Guide for Beginners (Part Three Final).

  • CSS Dictionary - A Guide for Beginners (Part Two).

• Breaking the Rules published The Broom and the Door Frame (Ep. 5).

• Cyborgs Writing published 5 Ways To Take A Structured Approach to Prompt Operations.

• The Absent-Minded Professor published Personal vs. Personalized Education.

• Under the Hype published Towards Quantum Computing (IV): Not so fast.

• Technology Should Be Simple published This Is For Everyone.

• technaelogy published a melodic mastermind.

• Not A Robot published How To Actually Use A Computer #1.

• Algorithmically Speaking published The Basics of Test-Driven Development with a Focus on Data Structures.

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