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August 11, 20268 min

Books as Code: Writing and Publishing Books with Markdown and Git

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/books-as-code-writing-and-publishing-books-with-markdown-and-git. Learn how PubDown turns Markdown and Git into a complete book publishing workflow, generating print-ready PDFs and EPUBs for KDP and other platforms. Check more stories related to writing at: https://hackernoon.com/c/writing. You can also check exclusive content about #book, #writing, #markdown, #git, #github, #book-publishing, #github-publishing, #hackernoon-top-story, and more. This story was written by: @thebojda. Learn more about this writer by checking @thebojda's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. PubDown is a simple open-source publishing tool that lets you treat a book like a software project. Write your chapters in Markdown, define the book structure and metadata in YAML, and manage the entire project with Git and GitHub—including version history, branches, collaborative writing, and reviews. With a single build command, PubDown turns your sources into print-ready PDF and EPUB files suitable for Amazon KDP, Google Play Books, Apple Books, Lulu, and other publishing platforms. It can also import existing DOCX manuscripts and convert them into structured Markdown projects.

August 8, 202642 min

186 Blog Posts To Learn About Hackernoon Community

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/186-blog-posts-to-learn-about-hackernoon-community. Learn everything you need to know about Hackernoon Community via these 186 free HackerNoon blog posts. Check more stories related to writing at: https://hackernoon.com/c/writing. You can also check exclusive content about #hackernoon-community, #learn, #learn-hackernoon-community, and more. This story was written by: @learn. Learn more about this writer by checking @learn's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com.

August 7, 20267 min

Meet the Writer: Veera Ravindra Divi on Building AI Agents You Can Trust

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/meet-the-writer-veera-ravindra-divi-on-building-ai-agents-you-can-trust. In this HackerNoon Meet the Writer interview, Veera Ravindra Divi discusses agentic AI, distributed systems, reliability, and technical writing. Check more stories related to writing at: https://hackernoon.com/c/writing. You can also check exclusive content about #meet-the-writer, #agentic-ai, #ai-agent-reliability, #hackernoon-contributors, #ai-orchestration, #distributed-systems, #multi-agent-systems, #open-source-ai, and more. This story was written by: @latentphantom. Learn more about this writer by checking @latentphantom's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Technology lead Veera Ravindra Divi writes about the distance between an AI agent demo and something you'd actually put in front of real users. In this Meet the Writer interview he unpacks the ordinary multi-agent failure behind his latest top story, his early-morning writing routine, why cutting is harder than drafting, and what he wants Assevra AI to become.

August 5, 202618 min

Meet the Writer: Sebastian Martinez Torregrosa, Principal Product Marketing Manager at SUSE

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/meet-the-writer-sebastian-martinez-torregrosa-principal-product-marketing-manager-at-suse. In this HackerNoon Meet the Writer interview, Sebastian Martinez Torregrosa discusses AI, authorship, writing, and his career at SUSE. Check more stories related to writing at: https://hackernoon.com/c/writing. You can also check exclusive content about #meet-the-writer, #hackernoon-contributors, #ai-and-authorship, #technology-writing, #writing-with-ai, #product-marketing-leadership, #ai-governance, #digital-sovereignty, and more. This story was written by: @sebastianmartinez. Learn more about this writer by checking @sebastianmartinez's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Sebastian Martinez Torregrosa discusses his path from software engineering and technical presales to leading global product marketing for SUSE Linux. He also explains how he uses AI as a critical reader, why “compression without distortion” is his biggest writing challenge, and what he plans to explore next across AI, infrastructure, governance, and authorship.

August 2, 20264 min

How to Republish Articles and Why You Should Do So

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/how-to-republish-articles-and-why-you-should-do-so. Republishing articles is a good way to get your name in front of different audiences. Here's how to do so. Check more stories related to writing at: https://hackernoon.com/c/writing. You can also check exclusive content about #writing, #writing-tips, #blogging, #blogging-tips, #article-writing, #writer-advice, #online-writing, #how-to-republish, and more. This story was written by: @joseh. Learn more about this writer by checking @joseh's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Republishing articles has multiple upsides. It can give you a new audience, it gives you a safety net, and it can help you get your name out there.

July 22, 20266 min

The Three Questions That Changed How I Think About Technical Writing

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-three-questions-that-changed-how-i-think-about-technical-writing. Original technical writing is not about inventing new topics, it is about adding your own experience, judgment, and properly cited research. Check more stories related to writing at: https://hackernoon.com/c/writing. You can also check exclusive content about #technical-writing, #plagiarism, #artificial-intelligence, #quality-assurance, #software-engineering, #ai-assisted-writing, #content-credibility, #software-testing, and more. This story was written by: @gaya3bollineni. Learn more about this writer by checking @gaya3bollineni's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Original technical writing is not about inventing new topics, it is about adding your own experience, judgment, and properly cited research.

July 22, 20266 min

Meet the Writer: Gayathri Bolineni on Automation, Reliability, and Life Beyond the Happy Path

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/meet-the-writer-gayathri-bolineni-on-automation-reliability-and-life-beyond-the-happy-path. Meet Gayathri, a software quality engineer writing about automation, reliability, production failures, and engineering beyond the happy path. Check more stories related to writing at: https://hackernoon.com/c/writing. You can also check exclusive content about #meet-the-writer, #hackernoon-writers, #software-quality-engineering, #test-automation, #women-in-tech, #quality-assurance, #the-happy-path, #hackernoon-contributors, and more. This story was written by: @gaya3bollineni. Learn more about this writer by checking @gaya3bollineni's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Software quality engineer Gayathri discusses her approach to test automation, technical writing, reliability, and the gap between how systems are designed to work and what happens in production. She also shares her unconventional writing routine, career ambitions, hackathon judging experience, and life outside engineering.

July 15, 20266 min

Meet the Writer: Sriram Ramakrishnan on Fintech, Regulation, and Product Strategy

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/meet-the-writer-sriram-ramakrishnan-on-fintech-regulation-and-product-strategy. Sriram Ramakrishnan writes about fintech, payments, and the mechanics underneath the headline. Here's the story behind the writer — his routine, his guilty plea Check more stories related to writing at: https://hackernoon.com/c/writing. You can also check exclusive content about #meet-the-writer, #fintech, #hackernoon-contributors, #hackernoon-writers, #financial-systems, #emerging-markets, #cross-border-payments, #fintech-regulation, and more. This story was written by: @sriram-ramakrishnan. Learn more about this writer by checking @sriram-ramakrishnan's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Sriram Ramakrishnan works in product and strategy at a tech company, writes about fintech and emerging markets at midnight, cooks things that take three hours on weekends, and is currently building toward founding something at the intersection of payments and the developing world. He doomscrolls fintech Twitter unironically and has no plans to stop.

July 14, 20261 hr 51 min

500 Blog Posts To Learn About Blogging Fellowship

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/500-blog-posts-to-learn-about-blogging-fellowship. Learn everything you need to know about Blogging Fellowship via these 500 free HackerNoon blog posts. Check more stories related to writing at: https://hackernoon.com/c/writing. You can also check exclusive content about #blogging-fellowship, #learn, #learn-blogging-fellowship, and more. This story was written by: @learn. Learn more about this writer by checking @learn's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com.

June 30, 20267 min

Meet the Writer: Hacker Noon's Contributor Lokesh Prakash Manohar, AI Product Lead

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/meet-the-writer-hacker-noons-contributor-lokesh-prakash-manohar-ai-product-lead. AI Product Lead Lokesh on building production RAG and agentic systems, writing grounded in real experiments, and what he's publishing next on HackerNoon. Check more stories related to writing at: https://hackernoon.com/c/writing. You can also check exclusive content about #meet-the-writer, #enterprise-ai, #rag-system-knowledge-graph, #vision-language-models, #ai-practitioner-writing, #graphrag-debugging, #verifiable-ai-system, #ai-product-management, and more. This story was written by: @writerspotlight. Learn more about this writer by checking @writerspotlight's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. AI Product Lead Lokesh builds production RAG, knowledge graph, and agentic AI systems for enterprise clients, and writes about what he learns along the way. In this Meet the Writer interview, he talks about his latest Top story testing whether Google's Workspace icon redesign is easier for vision models to tell apart, his two-track writing style of hands-on experiments and strategic arguments, the challenge of writing publicly when client work stays confidential, and what's coming next on debugging knowledge-graph-based RAG and verifiability in enterprise AI.

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