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## Posts

- [Advice for tech writers on a job hunt in the AI age](https://passo.uno/job-hunt-tech-writers-ai/index.md) — 2026-07-29
- [You can write in LLMese, but you don’t have to](https://passo.uno/write-docs-llms-language/index.md) — 2026-07-12
- [Feed the machines, then guide the humans](https://passo.uno/tech-writing-role-split/index.md) — 2026-06-12
- [Fine-tuning an LLM to write docs like it's 1995](https://passo.uno/fine-tuning-docs-llm/index.md) — 2026-06-01
- [What I've learned designing agentic workflows for docs](https://passo.uno/agentic-workflows-for-docs/index.md) — 2026-05-11
- [Most vibe-coded tools are not for you](https://passo.uno/tools-slop-is-a-problem/index.md) — 2026-05-06
- [What makes docs beautiful?](https://passo.uno/what-makes-docs-beautiful/index.md) — 2026-04-20
- [High fantasy map of tech writing (AI edition)](https://passo.uno/fantasy-map-tech-writing-ai/index.md) — 2026-04-11
- [In the team of the future, roles are verbs, not nouns](https://passo.uno/docs-team-of-the-future/index.md) — 2026-03-22
- [Skills are docs, and docs need tech writers](https://passo.uno/skills-are-docs/index.md) — 2026-03-08
- [New habits for tech writers in the age of LLMs](https://passo.uno/new-habits-tech-writers-ai-age/index.md) — 2026-02-28
- [The writing was always the cheap part](https://passo.uno/real-cost-of-documentation/index.md) — 2026-02-24
- [The four modes of AI-augmented technical writing](https://passo.uno/four-modes-ai-augmented-tech-writing/index.md) — 2026-01-25
- [To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI](https://passo.uno/letter-those-who-fired-tech-writers-ai/index.md) — 2026-01-12
- [My day as an augmented technical writer in 2030](https://passo.uno/my-day-tech-writer-2030/index.md) — 2025-12-13
- [Code wikis are documentation theater as a service](https://passo.uno/ai-wikis-docs-teather-as-a-service/index.md) — 2025-11-15
- [You need an AI policy for your docs](https://passo.uno/ai-docs-policy-contributions/index.md) — 2025-11-10
- [Why I built an MCP server to check my docs (and what it taught me)](https://passo.uno/mcp-server-docs-tooling/index.md) — 2025-10-13
- [When docs become performance art, everybody loses](https://passo.uno/documentation-theater-everybody-loses/index.md) — 2025-09-24
- [The future is open: Answering the most common tech writing worries](https://passo.uno/tech-writing-optimism-reddit/index.md) — 2025-09-14
- [Contributing a verse: When users become documentation authors](https://passo.uno/docs-contribution-journey/index.md) — 2025-08-31
- [AI must RTFM: Why technical writers are becoming context curators](https://passo.uno/from-tech-writers-to-ai-context-curators/index.md) — 2025-08-08
- [How I write docs quickly](https://passo.uno/how-write-tech-docs-quickly/index.md) — 2025-07-21
- [Things technical writers shouldn't care about... yet](https://passo.uno/things-tech-writers-shouldnt-care-about/index.md) — 2025-06-23
- [Conjuring digital companions: How I'm thinking better through AI](https://passo.uno/thinking-better-through-ai/index.md) — 2025-06-18
- [On finding time to write (this is not productivity advice)](https://passo.uno/how-i-write-about-tech-writing/index.md) — 2025-06-07
- [How to grow as a technical writer](https://passo.uno/how-to-grow-senior-tech-writer/index.md) — 2025-05-18
- [Own the prompt: Build your own tech writing tools using LLMs](https://passo.uno/build-tech-writing-tools-llms/index.md) — 2025-04-26
- [Update to my tech writing gear and tools](https://passo.uno/tech-writing-ai-tools-gear/index.md) — 2025-04-14
- [What's wrong with AI-generated docs](https://passo.uno/whats-wrong-ai-generated-docs/index.md) — 2025-04-01
- [Technical writing has a depth issue](https://passo.uno/tech-writing-depth-issue/index.md) — 2025-03-13
- [Technical English is nobody's mother tongue](https://passo.uno/native-english-tech-writing/index.md) — 2025-03-01
- [My time machine runs on technical writing](https://passo.uno/retrocomputing-tech-writing-lab/index.md) — 2025-02-10
- [Should you write documentation differently for LLMs?](https://passo.uno/writing-for-llms-ai-chatbots/index.md) — 2025-01-24
- [The Seven-Action Documentation model](https://passo.uno/seven-action-model/index.md) — 2025-01-09
- [My technical writing predictions for 2025](https://passo.uno/tech-writing-predictions-2025/index.md) — 2024-12-27
- [The best docs are the ones we don’t remember](https://passo.uno/my-favorite-tech-docs/index.md) — 2024-12-15
- [FAQs are not the answer](https://passo.uno/what-the-faq/index.md) — 2024-11-30
- [Why I became a Documentation Engineer (and what that even means)](https://passo.uno/what-is-a-documentation-engineer/index.md) — 2024-11-24
- [How I'm using AI as a technical writer](https://passo.uno/ai-tech-writer-examples/index.md) — 2024-10-30
- [What docs as code really means](https://passo.uno/what-docs-as-code-means/index.md) — 2024-10-20
- [TypeSpec reminds us why OpenAPI exists in the first place](https://passo.uno/typespec-openapi-api-design/index.md) — 2024-09-02
- [Failing (and surviving failure) as a technical writer](https://passo.uno/technical-writing-failures/index.md) — 2024-08-18
- [How to set up your tech writer up for success](https://passo.uno/how-to-tech-writer-success/index.md) — 2024-07-06
- [Contributing to open source docs as a technical writer](https://passo.uno/contribute-open-source-docs/index.md) — 2024-06-24
- [Review of Technical Writing for Software Developers](https://passo.uno/review-technical-writing-software-developers/index.md) — 2024-06-09
- [Technical writing is not a dead-end job, it's a landing pad](https://passo.uno/posts/technical-writing-is-not-a-dead-end-job/index.md) — 2024-05-29
- [Things I remind myself when working with others](https://passo.uno/tips-working-tech-writers-team/index.md) — 2024-05-12
- [My favorite books for tech writers](https://passo.uno/best-tech-writing-books/index.md) — 2024-04-25
- [The pros and cons of using Markdown](https://passo.uno/pros-cons-markdown/index.md) — 2024-03-27
- [Technical writing in 2049](https://passo.uno/tech-writing-predictions-2049/index.md) — 2024-03-17
- [What to do when you're feeling AI anxiety as a tech writer](https://passo.uno/ai-anxiety-tech-writer-howto/index.md) — 2024-02-10
- [Signs that you need a technical writer](https://passo.uno/signs-need-tech-writer/index.md) — 2024-01-17
- [Docs observability, or measuring docs inside a product-docs system](https://passo.uno/docs-observability-do11y/index.md) — 2024-01-08
- [What tech writers can learn from video game manuals](https://passo.uno/video-game-manuals-docs/index.md) — 2023-12-13
- [Tips for hiring your first technical writer](https://passo.uno/tips-hiring-tech-writers/index.md) — 2023-11-08
- [My favorite tech writing tools](https://passo.uno/favorite-tech-writing-tools/index.md) — 2023-10-22
- [Bestiary: On Doc Types and Other Animals](https://passo.uno/docs-bestiary-taxonomy/index.md) — 2023-09-23
- [Tips for job hunting as a technical writer](https://passo.uno/job-hunting-tech-writers/index.md) — 2023-09-16
- [An experiment in humorous documentation](https://passo.uno/experiment-humour-documentation/index.md) — 2023-07-17
- [A tech writer's letter to software developers](https://passo.uno/tech-writers-letter-to-developers/index.md) — 2023-06-25
- [How did I become a technical writer](https://passo.uno/how-did-i-become-tech-writer/index.md) — 2023-06-18
- [Docs-as-code topologies](https://passo.uno/docs-as-code-topologies/index.md) — 2023-05-14
- [We need more technical writing in popular culture](https://passo.uno/tech-writers-pop-culture/index.md) — 2023-03-30
- [High fantasy map of technical writing](https://passo.uno/tech-writing-fantasy-map/index.md) — 2023-03-12
- [My technical writing gear (how I work)](https://passo.uno/technical-writing-equipment/index.md) — 2023-01-29
- [Hiring technical writers in a ChatGPT world](https://passo.uno/hiring-tech-writers-chatgpt/index.md) — 2023-01-04
- [The rise of WriterBot](https://passo.uno/openai-tech-writing-howto/index.md) — 2022-12-03
- [How to become a technical writer](https://passo.uno/how-to-become-a-technical-writer/index.md) — 2022-11-07
- [Learning to code as a technical writer](https://passo.uno/tech-writer-learn-to-code/index.md) — 2022-10-30
- [My first children’s book is about... OpenTelemetry](https://passo.uno/opentelemetry-children-book/index.md) — 2022-10-14
- [Circles of Product Truth](https://passo.uno/circles-product-truth/index.md) — 2022-09-19
- [Docs Hierarchy of Priorities: A Proposal](https://passo.uno/docs-hierarchy-of-needs/index.md) — 2022-08-28
- [Tech Writing Skills Tree](https://passo.uno/tech-writing-skills-talent-tree/index.md) — 2022-08-11
- [Measure it till you make it](https://passo.uno/tech-writing-metricks-kpis/index.md) — 2022-08-06
- [A love letter to technical writing](https://passo.uno/why-technical-writing/index.md) — 2022-07-18
- [Let's blog more about technical writing](https://passo.uno/we-need-more-writing-on-tech-writing/index.md) — 2022-07-15
- [How to introduce prose linters at your workplace](https://passo.uno/prose-linters-implement-workplace-howto/index.md) — 2022-07-03
- [Do it yourself: User research for technical documentation](https://passo.uno/tech-writing-user-research-howto/index.md) — 2022-06-24
- [Markdoc is not what you expected, and that's a good thing](https://passo.uno/markdoc-review/index.md) — 2022-05-11
- [Technical writing syllabus](https://passo.uno/tech-writing-syllabus/index.md) — 2022-05-02
- [Why I collect and read old computer manuals](https://passo.uno/why-collect-read-old-computer-manuals/index.md) — 2022-01-22
- [An update to my tips for working remotely](https://passo.uno/more-tips-for-working-remotely/index.md) — 2021-12-20
- [Better docs, less pain: the case for new docs-as-code standards](https://passo.uno/docs-as-code-tools-open-standards/index.md) — 2021-11-01
- [The Columbo Technique for Technical Writers](https://passo.uno/the-columbo-technique-for-technical-writers/index.md) — 2021-10-21
- [OpenAI and docs: AI-aided technical writing is here to stay](https://passo.uno/posts/computer-aided-technical-writing-is-here-to-stay/index.md) — 2021-08-27
- [First steps with the Vale prose linter](https://passo.uno/posts/first-steps-with-the-vale-prose-linter/index.md) — 2021-05-20
- [Levels of embedded documentation](https://passo.uno/posts/2021-04-05-levels-of-embedded-documentation-1/index.md) — 2021-03-03
- [Working with remote teams: My Tips](https://passo.uno/posts/2021-04-05-working-with-remote-teams-my-tips/index.md) — 2020-02-04
- [What is technical writing?](https://passo.uno/posts/2021-04-05-what-is-technical-writing/index.md) — 2019-10-09

## Talks

- [Episode IX of Phase One: Orchestrating docs, AI accuracy, and the pipeline writer](https://passo.uno/episode-ix-phase-one-orchestrating-docs-anthropic/index.md) — 2026-08-02
- [Episode VIII of Phase One: Judging beautiful docs, AI fatigue, and tool slop](https://passo.uno/episode-viii-phase-one-judging-beautiful-docs-ai-fatigue-tool-slop/index.md) — 2026-06-01
- [Behind the Docs: The Future of Docs Is More Human Than You Think](https://passo.uno/behind-the-docs-future-of-docs-human/index.md) — 2026-05-12
- [Episode VII of Phase One: Skills, agentic workflows, and the tinker's burden](https://passo.uno/episode-vii-phase-one-agent-skills-ai-workflows/index.md) — 2026-04-13
- [Episode VI of Phase One: Doc testing, skills files, and the guardians of knowledge](https://passo.uno/episode-vi-phase-one-docs-testing-skills/index.md) — 2026-03-10
- [Episode V of Phase One: Tech comm predictions for 2026](https://passo.uno/episode-v-phase-one-tech-comm-predictions-2026/index.md) — 2026-01-26
- [Episode IV of AI & Docs: AI tools, automation, and an intentionally offline life](https://passo.uno/episode-iv-ai-docs/index.md) — 2026-01-05
- [Episode III of AI & Docs: Docs theater and the acceleration paradox](https://passo.uno/episode-iii-ai-docs-podcast/index.md) — 2025-12-01
- [Failing Well: A Practical Guide to Growth for Technical Writers](https://passo.uno/failing-well-wtd-berlin-2025/index.md) — 2025-11-06
- [Episode II of AI & Docs: MCP and the role of tech writers](https://passo.uno/ai-docs-episode-ii-mcp-servers/index.md) — 2025-10-27
- [[Podcast] Growing as a technical writer in the AI era](https://passo.uno/podcast-growing-as-tech-writer/index.md) — 2025-10-02
- [First episode of the AI & Docs podcast is out!](https://passo.uno/ai-docs-podcast-first-episode/index.md) — 2025-09-29
- [Webinar: What's Wrong with AI Generated Docs](https://passo.uno/webinar-ai-tech-writing/index.md) — 2025-07-24
- [Beyond Content Types: A Human-first Model for Technical Documentation](https://passo.uno/beyond-content-types-presentation/index.md) — 2025-05-28
- [[Podcast] Your docs are your infrastructure](https://passo.uno/talks/podcast-your-docs-are-your-infrastructure/index.md) — 2024-11-26
- [Webinar: Contributing to Open Source Documentation Projects](https://passo.uno/webinar-open-source-docs-contributions/index.md) — 2024-09-26
- [Discussing Markdown and structured content with Niklas Begley](https://passo.uno/markdown-structured-content/index.md) — 2024-07-23
- [Chat with Tom Johnson about AI and tech comms](https://passo.uno/ai-tech-comms-podcast/index.md) — 2023-10-23
- [Once Upon a Time There Were... Docs](https://passo.uno/write-the-docs-opentelemetry-children-story/index.md) — 2023-09-20
- [Episode 33 of API the Docs podcast](https://passo.uno/ep33-api-the-docs-podcast/index.md) — 2023-04-13
- [Episode 3 of Let's Talk Docs](https://passo.uno/lets-talk-docs-podcast/index.md) — 2022-03-02
- [How to assist API design as a technical writer](https://passo.uno/posts/how-to-assist-api-design-as-a-technical-writer/index.md) — 2021-10-12
- [Open source tools for REST API documentation](https://passo.uno/posts/open-source-tools-for-rest-api-documentation/index.md) — 2021-06-23
- [On personality in technical writing](https://passo.uno/posts/on-personality-in-technical-writing/index.md) — 2021-06-20

## Pages

- [About me](https://passo.uno/about/index.md)