About me

I’m Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti, a technical, UX, and programmer writer based in Barcelona, Spain. I write and explore tech for a living. I’ve been communicating about tech and connecting people at tech companies since 2008, first as a content strategist, then as an API designer and tech writer.

I know enough coding to be dangerous and I often create my own tools. I love the Oxford comma, em dashes, semicolons, and the interrobang. My grammar is descriptive when writing and prescriptive when editing. I break rules all the time if it helps getting a message across.

I help people through technology. If that means writing a shell script instead of editing a long tutorial, then I’ll do it. I create code samples if the scenario requires that. And if something can be solved by having less documentation, I’m OK with hitting Delete.

I believe that all companies should have more writers and philosophers and educators in their ranks, that is, more underscore-shaped people. I’m a skeptical optimist and a rationalist. Even though it’s a messy social enterprise, I stand by science, in a Feyerabendian way.

I used to write a Spanish blog from 2003 to 2017. My brother has a website, too.

About “passo uno”

Passo uno is Italian for stop-motion. It also means step one.

Choosing the first step of a procedure is often the most critical part of technical writing. At the same time, good UX writing can be seen as a sequence of discrete steps, a stop-motion dialogue which flows like a real conversation. I also wanted the domain name to reflect my ancestry: I was born in Italy and consider myself Italian, though I’ve lived in Spain for longer.

Contact me

You can reach out to me by email or through LinkedIn. I speak English, Spanish, Italian, and Catalan fluently. I know a little bit of Persian. I’ll be delighted if you teach me some Chinese or Arabic.