Dan Brian

Technically wrong. Senior Technical Writer @digitalocean. Ex @oracle and @dyn writer (he/him)

[Dan Brian @technicalywrite]

Fair pay

[Daniel Cranney 🇬🇧 @danielcranney]

Which tech-related word should I start using in sentences so I sound super smart? 🤔

[Dan Brian @technicalywrite]

sorry, my dude, but I would never trust a boss that didn't know what it was like in the trenches

[Dan Brian @technicalywrite]

I'm at #writethedocs and I don't think I've seen so many bullet journals in my life

[Dan Brian @technicalywrite]

at my first #writethedocs, finally

[Dan Brian @technicalywrite]

@Dannylph Hi Danny, I work on the docs site at DO. I've fixed that link and you should be able to get to the contact form now. Thanks for your patience and letting us know about it.

[Dan Brian @technicalywrite]

I kinda hate to say it, but the best bluetooth connection experience out there are Beats headphones and earbuds.

They connect to everything so breezily that they don't need to connect to multiple audio sources at once, and they're better for it.

[Dan Brian @technicalywrite]

yeah, man, it's happening

https://t.co/cdm83ZW7QA

[Brian P. Hogan @bphogan]

See this is why people are excited about chat gpt writing code for them….

Cos they all insist on working in languages that make them write so much code.

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[Dan Brian @technicalywrite]

@_BeckyMcMurray_ but he told me this sort of story is not uncommon, sadly. And it's pretty gross how often startup owners ride their employees pretty hard for 18 months, make a promising business, and then sell it and make fat stacks off of the business they built by stressing everyone out.

[Dan Brian @technicalywrite]

what energizes me is a steady paycheck and not finding out my startup boss was stealing money from me three months after the business shuttered

[Martin Tobias (Pre-Seed VC) @MartinGTobias]

In startups, you can go through both your best and worst experiences in one day.

If this doesn't energize you, maybe you should not be doing a startup.

[Dan Brian @technicalywrite]

@_BeckyMcMurray_ didn't happen directly to me but to a friend of mine out in SF working at a mobile phone videogame startup

[Dan Brian @technicalywrite]

this "you should be open to stress and hurt" mentality that swirls around startups needs to die. It's code for normalizing the exploitation of labor

[Brian P. Hogan @bphogan]

Instead of marveling at how copilot and ChatGPT can accelerate dev by doing all the boilerplate work, can we have real conversations like why languages and frameworks still require all the boilerplate?

Why am I writing this at all????

[Dan Brian @technicalywrite]

@alexlessard I'm so sorry, man. They didn't even give your team a fair shake! Hit me up if you need a reference or anything

[Dan Brian @technicalywrite]

NERD ALERT: I've been super resisting doing this beginner quantum computing programming tutorial all day. The terminology is like a Shadowrun game or something

https://t.co/jnQZpRaRyg

[Dan Brian @technicalywrite]

My boss just said that:
– VMs are for boomers
– Docker is for Gen Xers
– Fully managed deployment platforms are for Millennials
– Serverless functions are for Zoomers
😂

[Dan Brian @technicalywrite]

@RyanMacklin Hey, we're watching your Write the Docs lightning talk at DigitalOcean about animal personas and we can't find your slide deck anywhere. We really wanna see it!

[Dan Brian @technicalywrite]

anytime I can't install something with brew

[Dan Brian @technicalywrite]

@arstechnica @jrssnet oh man, I wrote a doc with a very similar subhead for this exact topic a few years ago. wild

https://t.co/c6nTn7EKb9

[Dan Brian @technicalywrite]

screenshots... my least favorite part of this job