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Writing, Technically with James Somers

Writing, Technically with James Somers

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James Somers is Jane Street’s writer-in-residence, splitting his
time between English and OCaml, and helping to push forward all
sorts of efforts around knowledge-sharing at Jane Street. In this
episode, James and Ron talk about the role of technical writing
in an organization like Jane Street, and how engineering software
relates to editing prose.

You can find the transcript for this episode on our
website.

Some links to topics that came up in the discussion:

mdx, the modified Markdown format that supports executing
OCaml code blocks

More on the 4 types of technical writing that James
references

Donald Knuth’s original book on Literate Programming

More on John McPhee’s use of KEDIT

Peter Seibel’s Coders at Work

David Goodsell’s The Machinery of Life

Scott Huler’s Defining the Wind

Some of James’s writing on our tech blog