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Heather Zoppetti

@digitalnabi.bsky.social
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🦋💙🖌️🧵 (she/her) Philly software engineer, technical writer, former knitwear designer, and aspiring fiction writer. I love coffee, cats, and the Oxford comma. heatherzoppetti.com

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Write the Docs @writethedocs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Write the Docs 2026 Documentation Salary Survey is open! Anonymous, takes ~10 minutes, open to anyone doing documentation work anywhere in the world. Results published free for everyone. Closes 𝟯𝟭 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟳. buff.ly/ay6PHWn
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I'm so honored to be included in the @inkedingraypress.bsky.social STELLAR PARALLAX anthology. Now available for both paperback and e-book pre-orders! www.wordsmakeart.com/collections/...
Cover art for STELLAR PARALLAX book features a space ship flying in front of a planet
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
#caturday
Orange and white cat reaching toward the camera upside down.
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Inked in Gray Press @inkedingraypress.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
STELLAR PARALLAX cover reveal is here!! In twisted underground passageways, in the desolation of space, and on barren landscapes where the fate of a few seeds could make or break the future, the protagonists of Stellar Parallax: Human Hope in Grimdark Worlds find glimmers of light in darkness.
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Inked in Gray Press @inkedingraypress.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Sneak Peak our newest anthology collab with @ajvanbelle.bsky.social STELLAR PARALLAX is 19 stories that explore the role of hope at the extremes of human experience and finding glimmers of light in darkness. Cover Reveal & Pre-Order Tomorrow!
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The Not-Boring Tech Writer @thenotboringtechwriter.com · 22/06/2026
A decade of knitting patterns turned out to be the perfect tech writing portfolio. 😊🧶 Heather Zoppetti (@digitalnabi.bsky.social) shares how she made that leap in our latest episode. Have a listen! Link in the comments.
The Not-Boring Tech Writer podcast quote graphic. Quote: "Writing knitwear patterns is technical writing!" Pictured: guest Heather Zoppetti, with the caption "Heather Zoppetti, Season 3, Episode 38."
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
#caturday vibes
Orange and white cat lays on his back on the couch looking into the camera upside down
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I have a spider living in my bathroom named Merv. He’s been chill, but today I lost track of him 😕
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Woo! Here’s an interview with yours truly. Subscribe to this podcast if you’re looking for entertaining chats about technical writing ❤️
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompts
We had been doing this for a while now. It had been at least a year since I had almost drowned. Since then, my mother had orbited around me like I would perish in any small amount of water.
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I told him tomorrow is Monday. He’s not impressed. Me too, Rusty. Me too. #catsky
Rusty the cat glares at the camera with ears back.
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Snow day cat naps
Rusty, an orange and white cat, is snuggled up next to his human on the couch while snow is falling gently outside.
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
FFS
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky
I had promised myself I wouldn't just sit at home. Craig had made me take time off, and if I was going to be forced into idleness, I would make something of it. That meant walking, moving, seeing-anything but curling up on my couch and letting grief pin me there.
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
“Princess? Hmm.” Jace grinned his winning smile. Perfectly aligned, pearly white teeth gleamed under the artificial lights. “Your vibe is more ‘wraith tours of colonial injustice’. Ooh! We could start a ghost tour event in the evenings.” #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Despite myself, I looked again at the strange beauty around me—tiny creatures no bigger than sparrows flitted overhead, their wings made of threads that unraveled and rewove themselves mid-flight. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Husband was not amused when I suggested we put the fireplace ashes on the sidewalk (for the ice) in the shape of humans.
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
His dad returned from work and made us the most delicious mac and cheese dinner. I hadn’t had a homemade meal in years. And let me tell you, Vanessa, I don’t know if there’s anything more comforting than cheese melted over pasta. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Knitting a pattern with 18” of ribbing. By next December, I might have a sweater, but possibly only a vest.
Photo illustrates the beginnings of a handknit sweater that is largely ribbing. The first five inches are done. Yarn is a hard-to-capture bluish green heathered yarn.
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
The ground squelched under my boots, damp with a mist that clung low and silver in the dim light. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky
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Write the Docs @writethedocs.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
📣 Our Portland 2026 Call for Proposals is now open! Share your insights on docs, workflows, or communication with our community. We want to hear from everyone who cares about great documentation. Submit by Jan 19, present May 3-5: buff.ly/ovDf40Q
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Announcing the Call for Proposals and Sponsorship Prospectus
We’re excited to announce our Portland Call for Proposals! We’re also launching our sponsorship prospectus with updated offerings based on feedback from last year. Our full website and tickets will...
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
It felt as though I’d crossed into a subtly different version of my life. A faint, invisible line separated my past and present into the time with my mother and the time after her death. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky
I had promised myself I wouldn't just sit at home. Craig had made me take time off, and if I was going to be forced into idleness, I would make something of it. That meant walking, moving, seeing-anything but curling up on my couch and letting grief pin me there.
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Radiators are the best when topped with a wool blanket.
Rusty, an orange and white cat, lounges on a wool, crochet blanket draped over a warm radiator.
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky
"Hey, stranger."
"Oh, Adam. Hey." She offered an empty smile.
The waitress gave her a look that asked, this the guy? And then turned to me with a barely disguised sneer. "What can I get ya?"
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
As the holiday season starts up, how are you doing? Rusty the cat wants you to know he thinks we should call 2025 done and go right into 2026.
Rusty the orange and white cat glares at the camera from behind a laptop. He wonders: how are you doing?
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I have a short story in @inkedingraypress.bsky.social’s Stellar Parallax anthology! Read the announcement and learn about all the amazing stories: inkedingray.com/announcing-h... #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
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Announcing Hope in a Grimdark World Authors! |
Coming Fall 2026! A new anthology from Inked in Gray STELLAR PARALLAX: HUMAN HOPE IN GRIMDARK WORLDS.Let’s not sugarcoat it — things are rough, and we don’t ...
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky
After ordering, I looked around the apartment. My mother would've hated this space. She'd say it was too small, too dark. She'd shake her head at the overwhelming number of books on the floor and dishes filling the sink. I could almost hear her voice, sharp with disapproval, softened only by some complicated strain of love that never felt genuine.
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky
You're not lost, the chasm whispered—not in sound, but directly into my thoughts. You're found. You're special. Full of magic.
"Amazing," I breathed, almost laughing, my body tipping forward without my permission.
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Where am I? My throat tightened. The lights buzzed louder. I pressed my palms against my eyes and tried to count. One. Two. Three. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
After ten years away, everything had changed. Wisma was now a wasteland of flat fields, shuttered strip malls, and forgotten family restaurants. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky
And then, instead of working harder, I started avoiding it. I told myself I needed a break, I'd get back on track after the weekend. Then the weekend turned into another week another missed assignment, another excuse.
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
The house itself felt warm, lived-in, full of framed family photos and the smell of something always baking in the oven. It was the opposite of my house, where I felt like a guest who’d overstayed my welcome instead of a son. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Instead, I stared into the little flame between us. It guttered, then steadied, as if reminding me that fragile light could still hold back the dark—at least for a while. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
I don’t know what it is about fall that makes me want to spin yarn, but I’ll take it. Next up: this delicious blend from @intothewhirled.bsky.social
A braid of spinning fiber from @intothewhirled yarn in the color “Unobtainium” which is green, purple, and blue. The blend is 70/15/15 Merino/Yak/Silk
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
I don’t understand the arguments for keeping standard time over the winter. They say it’s not great for the zone edges. So why not shift the zones? We are used to shifting time 2x a year. Shift the problematic zone areas and stay in daylight savings time.
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Today I made yarn. Still needs a good wash. #yarn #handspun
An olive green skein of handspun yarn right off the niddy-noddy
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky
The stars above blurred into a single soft glow, and everything else—past, future, whatever came after—faded away until it was only us. Just warmth and the quiet magic of a kiss we’d both been holding back for too long.
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Hey, I hear it’s #NationalCatDay
Rusty the cat in his window bed soaking in the sun.
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
We spent the next hour in the costume room digging through moth-eaten robes, plastic swords, and wigs that looked, and smelled, like someone had rescued them from a dumpster. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky
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Write the Docs @writethedocs.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Setup at the Write the Docs Berlin venue is underway! We are so excited to see you all tomorrow in Berlin and online!
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
More than some lab with wires, computers, and data ports, this place came straight from our nightmares, complete with the faint electric scent that always followed me back into waking. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I caught sight of the sky, which had turned to twilight. A whirl of deep blues and bruised purples, dotted with constellations I didn’t recognize. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Wednesday vibes.
Rusty, an orange and white cat, lays half on his back with a paw resting on his face. He’s had it with this week, but it’s only Wednesday.
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Write the Docs @writethedocs.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
🗓️ Write the Docs Berlin kicks off in one week! We’re excited to gather in Berlin and online, with our first in-person European event since 2019. We hope you are as excited as we are! Read our latest announcements, and get your virtual ticket no later than October 23rd. Read more: buff.ly/ZFymvlE
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky
In Philly, I could vanish if I wanted to. Slip into the ocean of tourists, linger unseen in Reading Terminal Market among the chatter and clatter of lunch. Nobody cared if I was new or local or just passing through; the city's attention was elsewhere. I'd always loved that about Philadelphia. It was big enough to hold every story without demanding I share my own.
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky
"But you didn't love it?"
She sighed. "I enjoyed winning. I liked the feeling of excelling at something. But the act of running? Pushing myself until my lungs burned and my legs felt like jelly, just so I could make my parents proud?" She shook her head. "I don't think I ever ran for me."
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I think she felt trapped. Like no matter what she did—how high she rose, what awards she achieved—it wouldn’t be her success, it would be theirs. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WritteSky
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
KLARA AND THE SUN X BLACK MIRROR An estranged friend group agrees to resurrect the girl they lost through a memory-mapping experiment, but the closer they get to her, the less they recognize themselves. #DVPit #A #SF #WOC #ND #CI
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Heather Zoppetti @digitalnabi.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
KLARA AND THE SUN X BLACK MIRROR Years after losing Elysia, four friends rebuild her from memory only to discover their memories may be the lie that destroys them. #DVPit #A #SF #WOC #ND #CI
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