interesting about writing, could you please mention some of the tech sites that pay money for content?
Reaching out to site editors with a couple samples of work could find you getting work published. As a freelance software developer, getting paid to write is nice, but just getting published can help increase exposure and lead to more incoming requests for project work and improved reputation.
I am not sure if they still do that though - last time I did that was about 2 years ago.
I wrote about their tech and how to integrate it in a different stack. I believe they paid about 200 USD for it.
I'd look it up but I am on mobile atm so it's not convenient. Might be worth to look up their website if it interests you.