Should you join Bluesky?
Bluesky, a social media platform similar to Twitter, has been trending post-election due to disappointment with X. In this post, I reflect on social media platforms in general, especially online space...
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...
25.11.2024 18:01 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
25.11.2024 17:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Prompt engineering for tech comm
Stay updated with best practices for technical writers. Includes an API documentation course for technical writers and engineers learning how to document APIs. The course includes sections on what an ...
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.
24.11.2024 20:27 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Getting started tutorial: Using Stoplight to create an OpenAPI specification document
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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.
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Content consultant, Coloradan, migraine warrior. Advocating for the four pillars of content creation and management: strategy, design, operations, and governance. Website: https://dkconsultingcolorado.com.
Content strategist, lesbian, wife/mom/grandma, knitter. Proud Democrat, forever heartbroken that we probably won't see a woman U.S. President in my lifetime.
Content strategy and technical documentation management expert. Webinar host, writer, researcher, and presenter. 🏳️🌈 Desert-dwelling dance music producer and flagger. A chatbot will likely replace you.
A fixation on "content" infuses my working life (through my management consultancy / solution integration firm - Gnostyx Research) as well as my unending academic studies (currently a Doctoral Researcher in Management at Lancaster University).
Technical Writer on GOV.UK Pay at GDS. Have a very serious Balatro problem.
Speaker, technical communication specialist, trainer, SaaS Solution Architect at MadCap Software - Posts/discussions my views only. #IXIACCMS #DITAXML
Director of Operations, Scriptorium
ContentOps, Content Strategy, Publishing, Localization
also a bit of gaming, craft beer, and occasional shenanigans
Information Architect/Content Strategist, long-time Technical Writer, DITA XML advocate, and interested in generative AI as applied to structured content.
Recently laid off, so let me know if I can help make your documentation processes more efficient!
Flare guru and Poe scholar
https://linkedin.com/in/jeankaplansky
pretty boring person, who's surprisingly obsessed with merge and match games. When I'm not playing those, I'm employed as a technical writer, crocheting, baking, or needle felting. Or watching Bake-off.
Technical writer @Google 🔎
Former newspaper journalist 🗞️
London, UK 🇬🇧
Content Specialist (20+ yrs, web content management, publication preparation).
Technical Writer: Docs-as-Code, DITA (topic-based, modular content).
Contributor to the Koha library software project + Wikipedia.
Loves free + open source software, and tea.
Fiction and technical writer, amateur farmer, horse husband (no, not like that!), avid reader, dad of two, chicken wrangler, indie publisher. He/him. Always working on five things at once. https://michaeljasper.net
Inidox provides technical writing, translation, and data analytics - this website is where we talk about everything related to technical writing and translation.
https://tech.inidox.com/
Docs engineer. Tech writer. Collector of old manuals. Retrocomputing enthusiast. Opinions my own, etc. Don't panic! My blog is https://passo.uno