Simon Willison 分享 Michael Lynch 的软件博客写作反模式
Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging
Simon Willison 推荐了 Michael Lynch 关于软件博客写作反模式的文章，其中批评了冗长开头、误判读者已有知识、假设读者读过旧文以及过度正式等问题。Lynch 还警告不要用链接代替术语解释，Willison 承认自己常犯这一点。文章指出，在众多开发者把写作交给 AI 后，软件博客正变得平淡同质，读者渴望有个人风格的文字。
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7th October 2026 - Link Blog
Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging (via) Some excellent writing advice from Michael Lynch. Michael warns against "meandering intros", misjudging your reader's existing knowledge, assuming they'll read your previous posts, and excessive formality.
He also warns against overreliance on links as an excuse not to explain terminology. This one hurt! I do this all the time, but I have a nagging suspicion that almost nobody ever clicks on them.
Beginner software bloggers suffer from a mass delusion that you have to write in a stiff, overly formal way for people to take you seriously [...] Just write the way you talk. With so many developers delegating their writing to AI, software blogging is becoming bland and homogenous. Readers are hungry for writing with personality.
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