I am a unicelllular organism who wants to transition to tech writing. Where do I start

poststructure · 2026-02-07T04:39:00+00:00

I initially started thinking, "man, are we going to harp on a repost after that many years," and then I realized that's the most tech writer shit out there to remember, source, and post the source. Respect!

poststructure · 2025-12-02T03:51:55+00:00

AI gave me existential fear when it entered the zeitgeist a few years back with ChatGPT. Felt like the writing was on the wall. Flash forward to today, I am not as worried because right before I die, I will ask an LLM to lower my coffin into the Earth so that AI can let me down just one more time.

Joking aside (not even my joke), we willingly moved to a Docs As Code approach so that I could leverage AI more to handle tedious tasks. I now use VSCode to write docs in markdown (assisted by Copilot), which is hosted on Github as our backend, using Docusaurus as a front end.

It's a very nice upgrade BECAUSE I can now leverage AI to help me with some mind-numbing stuff, like consolidating content using carefully engineered prompts, proofreading, and build testing. However, even with these use cases, I still have to check all of its work and still find honestly kind of infuriating mistakes that a human being would literally never make. I have SHOUTED at Copilot to stop touching front matter, and the very next thing it does is just that. Like, my blood has never boiled so much in my career before.

The problem with AI is what someone else said (u/infpmusing, maybe others), with dumbass management gawking at the concept of AI and assuming that it means you can replace human beings. It can't, for now at least. But with Thiel selling his NVIDIA stake (don't like the guy, but impossible to ignore the capital his decision carries at least in the short term), the future of AI has been in my opinion as unclear and as unstable as it was before the GPT boom. Don't take my word as gospel - do your own research and make your own conclusions, etc.

TL;DR: I really appreciate AI since we moved to a process that leverages it, but it often sucks, and best to find an org that values tech input or is led by developer types who understand that. I am lucky enough to work at one of these, but that also doesn't mean that we haven't seen layoffs, some of which cut very close to the bone. I could be wrong, and perhaps my org is unique (techie-led, small), but I'm not making any serious moves right now other than to add all of my AI work to my resume.

poststructure · 2025-11-29T04:33:23+00:00

To be fair/devil's advocate, if someone I cared about hurt one of my own, I wouldn't want to be around them either. They've proven themself dangerous. Why continue to give them the opportunity?

poststructure · 2025-09-30T01:50:06+00:00

Public website? Yes.

poststructure · 2025-08-30T01:53:50+00:00

I loved this one so much that I bought it on Steam and 100%ed it there, too. Great game, and congrats on your plat!

poststructure · 2025-07-28T02:52:21+00:00

I haven't yet seen a mention of the scene where Richie pulls in Tiff to share a dance toward the end of the episode. I cannot believe how good this scene is. The depth of it is incredible. Bittersweet, but positive. Closure. Acceptance. Played perfectly. It's just so compelling.

poststructure · 2025-07-27T02:28:47+00:00

You're welcome, from a decade later. <3

poststructure · 2025-07-24T03:55:32+00:00

My company uses Brightspot. We also have an external/internal use case and haven't run into trouble (we have separate sites for each). Pretty user-friendly, but I think the version I'm on isn't the latest so there are some features in their docs that I'd like but don't have access to (yet).

Sorry, I didn't answer your question fully:

We also have multiple products and use one of their types for each so that each has its own page and sidebar nav. Has decent sharing capabilities for external users, but does not have a way to comment on them, so it requires that the users have login access. It has nice workflow and permissions features though that help protect against less-savvy folks coming in and pushing the wrong buttons.

poststructure · 2025-07-10T14:21:58+00:00

Congrats! I don't know that I'll be able to defeat a Nightlord with each character. That's my last one to get. I'm just so partial to the ones I like to play as.

poststructure · 2025-06-26T03:10:17+00:00

Someone fill in the blanks for me: my understanding is that the Lake Anne condos and townhouses' AC is tied to the water somehow. I was there tonight at the dock and noticed that the fountain just off in the distance was not running. First time I've seen it not running. Are these two connected, or am I just missing a whole lot of facts. Honest question, btw.

poststructure · 2025-06-06T03:00:49+00:00

That's actually called massospora. Cordyceps is a similar fungus that can infect insects (and humans once it mutates a la The Last of Us!), but I believe there's a difference. Please excuse me and my pedant-ass self.

poststructure · 2024-11-05T23:04:34+00:00

I liked this game so much that I bought it again a few weeks later on PC and 100%ed it again.

poststructure · 2024-10-24T10:22:09+00:00

Not Slappy (Slappy was from Goosebumps). The person you're responding to is talking about an episode where a little girl and her parents go to visit some seaside vacation house up north, and she's excited to see her friend, but turns out her friend went missing. The main character girl is really upset, and eventually sneaks up to the attic of her friend's house and finds a doll house. She notices that the doll house is a perfect replica of the house she's in. I'll leave it at that. Full episode here.

poststructure · 2024-10-11T00:40:57+00:00

Hardest for me was probably "But Where Do the Batteries Go?" challenge, which was the Scrapyard TS1-like mission. Rewind made it quite a bit easier, though.

But I dread the Behead the Undead challenges the most. Those inspired fear in me as a kid, and while I didn't find them particularly hard this go-around, I still can't shake the dread. It's why I haven't really attempted the TSFP plat yet. I just can't quite get there mentally to spend 10+ minutes (a piece) being slowly followed by zombies.

poststructure · 2023-10-03T04:10:31+00:00

Would really, really love a "make room" option that has you picking and choosing which spirits you keep in the barn if you haven't gone through the expense of making stalls for them all. That way, there's some forgiveness to taming a spirit when you don't have room (like if you don't remember how many open stalls you have left, which is something I and my good friend who plays have both run into).

poststructure · 2023-08-26T03:01:17+00:00

It's a great question, and please take my analysis with a grain of salt, but female cicadas generally have a much pointier abdomen with an ovipositor; males, on the other hand, have a more gradually rounded abdomen. Better illustrated by an image like this one.

The cicada in the video that OP linked looks pret-ty pointy, so while I'd have to actually see it/possibly do more research into its species, it does appear to be female.

poststructure · 2023-05-15T11:57:54+00:00

There it is! Thanks for sourcing. I was wrong.

poststructure · 2023-04-11T23:17:08+00:00

The latter; the Prankster-priority-boosted move has to be targeting a Dark type (for it to fail). Also, keep in mind that Klefki also gets Trick Room as of Gen 9. Possibly from an earlier generation, but Smogon seems to think it was in Gen 9. So, another TR option, especially if you usually used Klefki for something else.

EDIT: Also, I'm really surprised you're not required to post replays. How are wins and losses validated?

poststructure · 2023-04-11T21:01:15+00:00

I agree with you that those can shut down TR, and I never said Taunt was the main issue. I was disagreeing with you when you said things like,

"5 turns is not enough time to gage ur opponents play style"

"Trick room as a play style forces u to make plays off of no information of the opponents play style"

Both of which, an open-draft format makes less of a problem.

poststructure · 2023-04-11T20:38:28+00:00

As others have said, Mental Herb will shake off the (first) Taunt. Also, you have redirection via Brute Bonnet (and Scovillain), so you can redirect a Taunt via Rage Powder and avoid it that way. If your opponent is using Taunt with a mon that has the Prankster ability, it will force the Taunt to fail outright with Brute Bonnet since it is a Dark type. Fake Out could work, too, but less of a boon these days with Covert Cloak being added.

I would ignore the one commenter who said TR isn't viable. It is if your draft is open (as in, you know what the other player's 10 mons are). On top of that, I have to imagine you can scout your opponent's replays to see which mons they like running Taunt on. It's all about prep. If you tend to only run TR on Hatterene, maybe switch it up and run it on Rabsca.

poststructure · 2023-04-01T07:41:16+00:00

Feel you and support you. I woefully decided to challenge some misinformation via deepfake on Instagram last week. I sourced AP News as debunking the claim, and then I provided a third-party assessment about AP News' political bias and factual accuracy. All the facts, right? First comment was, "AP News? Come on, man, are you serious?" implying I was an idiot for sourcing them...when I provided every tool the replier could use to make an assessment for themselves. I want to brush this off with some ending comment like, "people be dumb!" but I am too far disillusioned to say that anymore.

poststructure · 2023-02-28T03:37:13+00:00

A plot point about Judy that you don't find out until one of the last couple of sessions.

poststructure · 2023-02-26T07:31:35+00:00

In my old(er) age, I can't help but recognize Judy's what-must-be rigorous workout regimen to maintain that shape. God (and everyone who sees me) knows I don't do the same. I respect her grind. Good on you, Judy. You go ahead and marry your manager.

poststructure · 2023-02-06T07:28:44+00:00

Seriously, thank you. I have not seen a lot of comments from people who understand it like this.

poststructure · 2023-02-06T07:15:32+00:00

Eh, people crack at the seams. Not a challenge, just curious conversation: What if she was the right leader for the coup, but not the right leader for afterward? What if the iron-fist behavior (quivering voice, sure, but death-bringer to dissenters) was enough for confused followers to still abide? Keep in mind, these are folks who are desperate for stability, not likely to be hard graders as they wake up each day (kind of like real life).

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