Desplite the original title (HN's clarified it), the topic isn't <i>technical writing</i> as might be presumed, but <i>writing on technology</i>, and mostly the sort of pie-eyed, overly credulous and bombastically optimistic variety that's often found. Even, occasionally, on the pages on Hacker News.<p>The list is a set of tired tropes which occur with some frequency.<p>It's short. There are links to expanded discussion. The context is a 10-year blog of the author's on the larger topic of technology and technological criticism, and yes, there's a book, pay-what-you-can, CC-licensed:
<a href="https://gumroad.com/l/CWRfq" rel="nofollow">https://gumroad.com/l/CWRfq</a><p>I might have added, substituted, or amended a few items, most especially that there is actually something of a <i>history</i> and <i>philosophy</i> of technological criticism, but that's me. The latter point <i>is</i> picked up in the blog at large and the book.<p>For an item I very nearly passed over on account of its original title, this is actually an intruiging find. Thanks to thomasbjeven for turning it up, and L.M. Sacasas for writing it.
> in no particular order …<p>And what follows is an ordered list. Of mostly unsubstantiated nonsense explained in bloated language. That opposite of what I'd expect from good tech writing.<p>Is this a satire? It feels like something out of McSweeney's.
Wait...I was a tech writer for 20+ years at a major software developer. To me, a tech writer is someone who documents apps or APIs. If true, I don't see what this article has to do with tech writers.