Mike Tassano<p>The last segment of my working life was doing technical writing for software companies in <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a>. Understanding the software was easy, I had been a programmer for a long time before becoming a <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/techWriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>techWriter</span></a>.</p><p>The hard part was trying to put things into terms my audience would 'get' and I really admire people who can do that.<br>That’s why I devour everything <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Daojoan</span></a></span> sends out.</p><p>She got me to <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Vivaldi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vivaldi</span></a> and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Joplin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Joplin</span></a> and helped me see that privacy and software freedom is more than <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/LibreOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LibreOffice</span></a> and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ProtonMail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProtonMail</span></a>.<br>Go read her stuff. You won’t be disappointed.</p>