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I’m Brian P. Hogan, a technical content expert, software developer, teacher, and musician. I am the author of several books including Write Better with Vale, tmux 3, Small, Sharp Software Tools, and Exercises For Programmers.

When I’m not writing or teaching, I’m making music.


Latest Blog Post

Just Write Published April 1, 2026

LLMs are trained on work that humans created. But now we’re telling humans to change how they write because “you sound like an LLM.” When you see “It’s not x, it’s y”. Or em-dashes, or other common constructs in AI writing, those are there because millions of documents by millions of people contain those things. I’ve worked with a lot of people who produced articles or books without having any writing background.


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