How I Turned a Technical Writing Team Upside Down...Or, Downside Up?
Every time I think about what happened to me that one beautiful day, I still get goosebumps because that was my whole career shift. I’m sure a lot o…
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Structured authoring without XML - how it works
What is structured authoring? Structured authoring means writing content as reusable, semantic building blocks instead of free-form documents. The i…
GitHub for writers: Navigating pull request reviews
In the previous post on GitHub for writers: Branches and Pull Requests , you learned how to create branches, commit changes safely, and open pull re…
Checkbox theater: how I stopped trusting my AI agent to run the checks
For context: in the previous piece , I worked through a five-dimension review framework for documentation, covering clarity, readability, style, com…
I kept saying the same five things in every doc review. So I made them defaults.
In my last piece , I wrote about how AI changed my work as a technical writer. I closed with a line I keep coming back to: technical writing is shif…
5 types of engineers I met as a Technical Writer
Being a Technical Writer in an engineering world can be tough. We work closely with engineers, but we're not engineers ourselves. Our job isn't to c…