Not the Docs: content & voice on a developer blog

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Not the Docs: content & voice on a developer blog Havi Hoffman, Mozilla May 7, 2018 Write the Docs, Portland

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hacks.mozilla.org april 2018

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzVr_nsKoZs

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the yin & yang of editor & engineers

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Denise Graveline

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eloquentwoman.blogspot.com

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The Eloquent Woman Index of Famous Speeches by Women

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Ursula K. LeGuin

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“We are volcanos. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.” Ursula K. LeGuin, 1986

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Credit: Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument - Jasperdo https://www.flickr.com/photos/mytravelphotos/15237018282/ (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) new mountains

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hacks.mozilla.org

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University Ave. Palo Alto, CA, 2006 www.flickr.com/photos/freshelectrons/292496711/

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Gloria Dwomoh

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paid internships for under-represented people in tech www.outreachy.org/

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“It was a spring night in Greece when I got the news I’d been selected by Mozilla to be an Outreachy intern… That night, I was the happiest person in my town, I believe…” Gloria Dwomoh, 2015 https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/09/implementing-air-mozillas-related-events-feature/

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“Movement of a Robotic Arm through Bluetooth Communication Between an Arduino and an Android Application” Gloria Dwomoh, 2017

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Mozilla Tech Speakers at FOSDEM, February 2018

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anti-pattern: imposter syndrome

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“An anti-pattern is a common response to a recurring problem that is usually ineffective and risks being highly counterproductive.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern

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soft skills & good luck

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Clay Shirky, Hudson Theater, Open Hack NYC 2009 https://www.flickr.com/photos/yodelanecdotal/3995269285/in/album-72157622549624826/

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the first blogher, 2005 San Jose, CA.

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Open Hack EU Team, Bucharest, Romania, 2011 https://www.flickr.com/photos/freshelectrons/5719657787/

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an epidemic of imposter syndrome

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Soft skills : “These skills can include social graces, communication abilities, language skills, personal habits, cognitive or emotional empathy, time management, teamwork, and leadership traits.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_skills

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Margaret Heffernan

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“Helpfulness means I don't have to know everything, I just have to work among people who are good at getting and giving help. “ Margaret Heffernan

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hacks.mozilla.org 2012

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Inside a super fast CSS engine: Quantum CSS code cartoon by Lin Clark @linclark https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/08/inside-a-super-fast-css-engine- quantum-css-aka-stylo/

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How to Write CSS That Works in Every Browser, Even the Old Ones By Jen Simmons @jensimmons Resilient CSS in 7 video episodes, wrapped in a blog post. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/03/how-to-write-css-that-w orks-in-every-browser-even-the-old-ones/

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the yin & yang of reader & writer

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“Our aim is always to be useful and witty, but never sarcastic, spiteful, or snarky.” Danielle Vincent, 2018 Mozilla Developer Newsletter

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what Erin McKean taught me about context

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKPvzZzXyJI

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Online Communities https://xkcd.com/256/

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Illustration by Ashley Williams @ag_dubs https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/04/hello-wasm-pack/

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“Public speaking is a risk that you take, every time you get up to speak. And every time someone speaks, you all will be learning with them..” Denise Graveline

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