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title: 'About me'
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description: '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. '
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# 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](http://hackwrite.com/posts/enough-to-be-dangerous/) and I often create my own tools. I love the Oxford comma, em dashes, semicolons, and the [interrobang](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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](https://nested.substack.com/p/short-fat-engineers-are-undervalued) people. I'm a skeptical optimist and a rationalist. Even though it's a [messy social enterprise](http://phdcomics.com/), I stand by science, in a [Feyerabendian](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3186788/) way.

I used to write [a Spanish blog](https://remoquete.com) from 2003 to 2017. My brother [has a website](http://www.ferri-benedetti.ch/), 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](mailto:algernon@fastmail.com) or through [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabrizioferri/). I speak English, Spanish, Italian, and Catalan. I know a little bit of Persian. Teach me your language!

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