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What makes docs beautiful? 1904 4/20/26 9:00am post Episode VII of Phase One: Skills, agentic workflows, and the tinker's burden 1067 4/13/26 5:00am talk High fantasy map of tech writing (AI edition) 104 4/11/26 2:00pm post In the team of the future, roles are verbs, not nouns 767 3/22/26 2:00pm post Episode VI of Phase One: Doc testing, skills files, and the guardians of knowledge 705 3/10/26 9:00am talk Skills are docs, and docs need tech writers 1061 3/8/26 2:00pm post New habits for tech writers in the age of LLMs 2030 2/28/26 3:00pm post The writing was always the cheap part 1096 2/24/26 9:00pm post Episode V of Phase One: Tech comm predictions for 2026 770 1/26/26 7:00am talk The four modes of AI-augmented technical writing 1558 1/25/26 11:00am post To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI 1041 1/12/26 11:00am post Episode IV of AI & Docs: AI tools, automation, and an intentionally offline life 518 1/5/26 7:00am talk [Experiment] I interviewed Claude and Gemini about my 2025 blog posts 2112 12/21/25 3:00pm post My day as an augmented technical writer in 2030 1343 12/13/25 4:00pm post Episode III of AI & Docs: Docs theater and the acceleration paradox 47 12/1/25 8:00am talk Code wikis are documentation theater as a service 912 11/15/25 12:00pm post You need an AI policy for your docs 1445 11/10/25 3:00pm post Failing Well: A Practical Guide to Growth for Technical Writers 91 11/6/25 8:00am talk Episode II of AI & Docs: MCP and the role of tech writers 59 10/27/25 5:00am talk Why I built an MCP server to check my docs (and what it taught me) 844 10/13/25 3:00pm post [Podcast] Growing as a technical writer in the AI era 44 10/2/25 2:00pm talk First episode of the AI & Docs podcast is out! 85 9/29/25 8:00am talk When docs become performance art, everybody loses 796 9/24/25 2:30pm post The future is open: Answering the most common tech writing worries 1365 9/14/25 4:00pm post Contributing a verse: When users become documentation authors 1230 8/31/25 1:00pm post AI must RTFM: Why technical writers are becoming context curators 839 8/8/25 2:00pm post Webinar: What's Wrong with AI Generated Docs 733 7/24/25 8:00pm talk How I write docs quickly 1686 7/21/25 12:00pm post Things technical writers shouldn't care about... yet 2201 6/23/25 1:00pm post Conjuring digital companions: How I'm thinking better through AI 670 6/18/25 3:00pm post On finding time to write (this is not productivity advice) 716 6/7/25 3:03pm post Beyond Content Types: A Human-first Model for Technical Documentation 56 5/28/25 11:00am talk How to grow as a technical writer 2042 5/18/25 3:00pm post Own the prompt: Build your own tech writing tools using LLMs 1142 4/26/25 1:00pm post Update to my tech writing gear and tools 928 4/14/25 11:00am post What's wrong with AI-generated docs 1030 4/1/25 2:00pm post Technical writing has a depth issue 926 3/13/25 6:00pm post Technical English is nobody's mother tongue 918 3/1/25 4:00pm post My time machine runs on technical writing 692 2/10/25 12:00pm post Should you write documentation differently for LLMs? 909 1/24/25 8:00am post The Seven-Action Documentation model 2386 1/9/25 10:00am post My technical writing predictions for 2025 1516 12/27/24 8:00pm post The best docs are the ones we don’t remember 1120 12/15/24 7:00pm post FAQs are not the answer 911 11/30/24 5:00pm post [Podcast] Your docs are your infrastructure 73 11/26/24 8:00am talk Why I became a Documentation Engineer (and what that even means) 1002 11/24/24 2:00pm post How I'm using AI as a technical writer 1353 10/30/24 8:00am post What docs as code really means 1061 10/20/24 9:00am post Webinar: Contributing to Open Source Documentation Projects 61 9/26/24 4:00pm talk TypeSpec reminds us why OpenAPI exists in the first place 920 9/2/24 1:30pm post Failing (and surviving failure) as a technical writer 1702 8/18/24 7:00pm post Discussing Markdown and structured content with Niklas Begley 58 7/23/24 1:00pm talk How to set up your tech writer up for success 1464 7/6/24 2:00pm post Contributing to open source docs as a technical writer 1192 6/24/24 4:00pm post Review of Technical Writing for Software Developers 1137 6/9/24 2:00pm post Technical writing is not a dead-end job, it's a landing pad 759 5/29/24 8:00pm post Things I remind myself when working with others 1076 5/12/24 11:00am post My favorite books for tech writers 856 4/25/24 11:00am post The pros and cons of using Markdown 865 3/27/24 11:00am post Technical writing in 2049 1205 3/17/24 4:00pm post What to do when you're feeling AI anxiety as a tech writer 944 2/10/24 2:00pm post Signs that you need a technical writer 1522 1/17/24 4:00pm post Docs observability, or measuring docs inside a product-docs system 1474 1/8/24 8:00am post What tech writers can learn from video game manuals 881 12/13/23 9:00pm post Tips for hiring your first technical writer 1429 11/8/23 10:00am post Chat with Tom Johnson about AI and tech comms 45 10/23/23 6:00am talk My favorite tech writing tools 1094 10/22/23 7:00am post Bestiary: On Doc Types and Other Animals 454 9/23/23 4:00pm post Once Upon a Time There Were... Docs 205 9/20/23 5:00am talk Tips for job hunting as a technical writer 1475 9/16/23 9:00am post An experiment in humorous documentation 1025 7/17/23 7:00am post A tech writer's letter to software developers 850 6/25/23 2:00pm post How did I become a technical writer 1215 6/18/23 9:00am post Docs-as-code topologies 1332 5/14/23 8:00pm post Episode 33 of API the Docs podcast 16 4/13/23 2:04pm talk We need more technical writing in popular culture 845 3/30/23 2:00pm post High fantasy map of technical writing 21 3/12/23 12:00pm post My technical writing gear (how I work) 1206 1/29/23 5:00pm post Hiring technical writers in a ChatGPT world 1063 1/4/23 10:00am post The rise of WriterBot 571 12/3/22 3:00pm post How to become a technical writer 1022 11/7/22 1:00pm post Learning to code as a technical writer 1126 10/30/22 10:00am post My first children’s book is about... OpenTelemetry 136 10/14/22 1:30pm post Circles of Product Truth 394 9/19/22 2:00pm post Docs Hierarchy of Priorities: A Proposal 1038 8/28/22 11:00am post Tech Writing Skills Tree 38 8/11/22 10:00pm post Measure it till you make it 1558 8/6/22 2:00pm post A love letter to technical writing 671 7/18/22 10:00pm post Let's blog more about technical writing 893 7/15/22 10:00pm post How to introduce prose linters at your workplace 952 7/3/22 10:00pm post Do it yourself: User research for technical documentation 1768 6/24/22 10:00pm post Markdoc is not what you expected, and that's a good thing 711 5/11/22 10:00pm post Technical writing syllabus 683 5/2/22 10:00pm post Episode 3 of Let's Talk Docs 27 3/2/22 11:00pm talk Why I collect and read old computer manuals 759 1/22/22 11:00pm post An update to my tips for working remotely 651 12/20/21 11:00pm post Better docs, less pain: the case for new docs-as-code standards 2245 11/1/21 11:00pm post The Columbo Technique for Technical Writers 892 10/21/21 10:00pm post How to assist API design as a technical writer 93 10/12/21 10:00pm talk OpenAI and docs: AI-aided technical writing is here to stay 1040 8/27/21 10:00pm post Open source tools for REST API documentation 29 6/23/21 10:00pm talk On personality in technical writing 24 6/20/21 10:00pm talk First steps with the Vale prose linter 1102 5/20/21 10:00pm post Levels of embedded documentation 412 3/3/21 6:35pm post Working with remote teams: My Tips 933 2/4/20 5:36pm post What is technical writing? 449 10/9/19 4:31pm post
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