Welcome to the Code to be podcast.

We talk to people on their coding journey in hopes of helping you on yours.

I'm your host, Aran, and today we're talking about technical writing with Philip

Kylie, an author and technical writer.

There's this idea that stuck with me for a long time.

The idea of a yellow belt mindset, where a yellow belt is the second lowest rank in martial

arts.

That means that you have so much to learn.

But it's the second lowest rank.

So you've also taken a step, and that means you have something to teach, because there's people who haven't taken that step yet,

and it's your responsibility to help them take that step in the same way that other people helped you.

Philip talks about how he first got into technical writing while studying abroad in Budapest.

What technical writing is, what technical content platforms are out there, and why new developers should publish content early in their careers after this.

Thank you so much for being here.

Thank you for having me.

Yeah.

So let's start with the beginning. Why coding?

What was the interest in that? So I started a computer science major in my first year of college because it's what my friends were doing.

So it's a good thing that my friends were interested in something as awesome as computer science and not like underwater basket weaving or I might have been

on a very different trajectory. Right. I love that. I love that you made that decision from your

associations, from your peers. Sounds like that's kind of worked out for you. Yeah. Well, what happened

is I got invited to this hackathon by a couple of guys who I just started playing D&D with. And we

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