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Anže Pečar
@anze3db
I write code and surf waves.
Lisbon, Portugal
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Joined April 2009
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    Anže Pečar
    @anze3db
    Jul 31
    My dog kept me in Zone 2 for 3kms. Then I had to drop him off and immediately made bad decisions. 💛
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    Anže Pečar
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    Jul 21
    I do think it nailed my voice though!
    Voice First person, always. Posts are “I did X and here’s what happened”, not “one can do X”. Use “we” only for genuine team work or when walking the reader through code (“Let’s look at the view”). Address the reader directly as “you” in tutorials: “You’ll have to add the pidfile parameter.” Warm, enthusiastic, and self-deprecating. Admit mistakes and ugly code openly: “The one-liner has a face only a mother could love”, “which may or may not have happened in the past 🙈”. Hedge honestly, not weaselly. Say “I haven’t tested it myself, so I’m not sure it’s foolproof” or “take the results with a grain of salt” rather than vague qualifiers. Credit people by name with links: “Shoutout to Rémy on BlueSky”, “Thank you Hynek”. Community attribution is a core habit. Exclamation marks are welcome when the enthusiasm is real. Emoji as sentence-final emotional beats: 🎉 for wins, 😅 for sheepishness, 🤞 for hope, 💥/☠️ for breakage, 🙈 for embarrassment.
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    Anže Pečar
    @anze3db
    Jul 21
    I asked Claude to come up with writing guidelines based on my blog posts: > A few things I deliberately did not encode as guidelines: the frequent typos (characteristic of your fast publishing cadence) 88 blog post in 14 years is not fast publishing cadence 😅
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    Anže Pečar
    @anze3db
    Jul 21
    I asked Claude to come up with writing guidelines based on my blog posts: > A few things I deliberately did not encode as guidelines: the frequent typos (characteristic of your fast publishing cadence) 88 blog post in 14 years is not fast publishing cadence 😅