Amruta Ranade articles - 34 total
What's your favorite article that lives in your head rent-free?
I found myself randomly thinking about Vitor Paladini's excellent article about Technical Writing...
What's your favorite programming newsletter?
I start every morning with the Morning Brew (for tech/business news) and Skimm (for world news) and w...
5 Beginner-Friendly Coding Livestreams to Learn Programming
2020 has been a great year for code livestreams. Stuck at home, developers took to their OBS setups t...
What’s So Special About Spatial Data?
How is Lyft able to tell you how far away your driver is? How does DoorDash give accurate estimates f...
29 apps created and 33 Docs issues closed..Hacktoberfest FTW!
With 29 CockroachDB apps created and 33 Docs issues closed, it’s officially a wrap on CockroachDB’s H...
Answering your Frequently Asked Questions about Hacktoberfest
Even though the DigitalOcean team has done a fantastic job creating a helpful FAQs page on the Hackto...
How to contribute to open source without compromising your mental health and work-life balance
Paraphrased transcript: Contributing to open source projects is work -- like actual work. It's l...
An Absolute Beginner’s Checklist for Hacktoberfest
If you want to contribute to open source projects and don’t know where to start, Hacktoberfest is the...
Reviewing Google's Technical Writing Courses // Would I Recommend Them?
Recently, I have been recommending Google's Technical Writing courses to new writers. However, I also...
How do you evaluate new technology?
This question is inspired by Chris Bertrand's post. Chris' warning of not buying into the hype arou...
Open source maintainers: How do you work with tech writers?
I am considering mentoring tech writers to contribute docs to open source projects, but I want to mak...
Season of Docs + How to write a proposal
A post by Amruta Ranade
I tried popular WFH Hacks (Spoiler alert: They work 🙌🏽)
Documenting a snapshot of life in tech in the time of Covid-19...
2020 Wellness Theme & Goals // Healthy Life in Tech
Transcript: Working in tech is like chasing a never-ending to-do list: The list includes things...
How to write a blog post: The four-drafts method
If starting a new blog is one of your new year resolutions, this video will help you write a blog pos...
[Case Study] Blogging as a Developer Relations Strategy
In this video, I discuss how Microsoft Azure, PluralSight, and Dev.to do an excellent job at using bl...
[Case Study] Video content as a Developer Relations strategy
In this video, I discuss how Flutter, Convertkit, and AWS do an excellent job at using video content...
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[Case Study] Converting Users into Developer Advocates
In this video, I discuss how Webflow, DigitalOcean, and Twilio do an excellent job at converting thei...
How to draw tech sketchnotes
I attended Denise Yu's tech doodling and sketchnoting workshop in August and have wanted to make a vi...
Designing Tech Conference Swag (that people won't throw away)
In this video, I share tech swag ideas that are useful instead of wasteful. Hope it helps you decide...
How to live-tweet a tech event
(As part of my Prototyping a DevRel Career experiment, I am attending tech events and live-tweeting t...
Prototyping a career in Developer Relations
I currently work as a Senior Tech Writer and am contemplating a career progression to Developer Relat...
Open-sourcing our new employee onboarding process
The thoughtful onboarding process at Cockroach Labs is the best I have ever experienced. I am thrille...
How to diversify your professional network
In this video, I talk about the role that my diverse professional network has played in my career...
How to include video as cover image on dev.to?
I want to include a video instead of an image as the cover image for my dev.to post. Couldn't figure...
#DelightfulDocs: DigitalOcean's UX and Microcopy
What started as a UX writing and microcopy case study turned into a love letter to DigitalOcean 😁...
My UX Writing process
In this week's video, I talk about my UX writing process and share my favorite resources: Key ta...
(Tech) Writing experiment
One of my favorite YouTubers, Kate Cavanaugh (a novelist) has a series where she tries writing routin...
A fun little video about Security concepts for beginners
A while ago, I made a video about security concepts for beginners: Here's the transcript: I ha...