13 Tips to Write Better Posts for Developers

You want to start a blog, or perhaps you already have one and want to improve your style. Maybe you’re writing documentation and struggling to make it concise and clear. Whatever the case, you have a blank screen in front of you and a head full of ideas. How do you start? How do you write a blog that other developers will enjoy?

Here are 13 things I’ve learned over my years of writing for developers.

The 2 Essential Ingredients of a Brilliant Title

At WriteOps, we work with companies who are trying to sell their technical product. Almost all of them had a go at their own technical content. Their engineers wrote blogs, spoke at meet ups, and organized webinars. 

And None of Their Efforts Worked. Why?

The success of their marketing efforts wasn’t a function of money spent, nor were they solely about clever placement of paid ads. This is pretty true in general, but it is an absolute axiom when you’re marketing to the technical class.