Tom Johnson

WTD Documentation Salary Survey 2024 - open for submissions! Our salary survey is now open for submissions! Help us create a benchmark for appropriate salary ranges for documentation roles world-wide.

The WTD Salary Survey for 2024 is open and they need more people to complete it. salary-survey.writethedocs.org. It's a well-thought out and organized survey.

New post: "Should you join Bluesky?"
In this post, I reflect on social media platforms in general, especially online spaces for technical writers, and what benefits and tradeoffs they have. In my experience, the more I scroll social media, the fewer books I read. idbwrtng.com/should-you-j...

good luck on your API doc interviews. Thanks for mentioning my API doc course. API doc jobs are as still one of the best career routes for technical writers, not only for salary but also for the sheer interest of working in a challenging, diverse technology landscape.

The more I use AI, the more convinced I am that AI will become more and more prevalent across industries. I keep building out my prompt engineering for docs series: idratherbewriting.com/ai/prompt-en.... Someone compared using AI tools to learning to play a musical instrument. I like that analogy.

I made a few updates to my API course -- updated the Stoplight getting started tutorial, idratherbewriting.com/learnapidoc/..., and the Redocly tutorial, idratherbewriting.com/learnapidoc/.... The tech landscape changes constantly -- keeping the course up-to-date is a real challenge.