Doctave is a new docs-as-code SaaS documentation platform built on Rust. In this post, I ask co-founder Niklas Begley more questions about the origin behind the platform, differentiating features, approaches to common problems, and more. If you're looking for a docs-as-code platform that will allow you to get productive with documentation authoring quickly, Doctave looks to be a promising solution.
I recently tried a new approach to my newsletter: summarizing news articles. The new approach resulted in good engagement but left me feeling empty. News exploits our psychological vulnerabilities, including our novelty bias, negativity bias, and fear of missing out. We should be mindful of our news consumption and balance it with other more self-directed activities.
Here are tech comm news and links for May 19, 2023.
Here are a few quick tips for finding academic research related to tech comm.
Rob Walker's The Art of Noticing can help you see the familiar environment around you in a new light.
Tools like ChatGPT are diminishing reliance on essay cheating services. This doesn't mean fewer students are cheating, though. In fact, cheating is likely more rampant with AI tools, and more students are losing the patience to write.
In this Q&A focused on switching from DITA to docs-as-code tools, specifically Docusaurus, technical writer Mikes Howes shares the considerations, deliberations, and tradeoffs when choosing and implementing a new authoring tool.
The following are tech comm links, articles, and thoughts for May 11, 2023.
The following are tech comm links, articles, and thoughts for May 9, 2023.
I’ve been as hyped about AI as others, but there’s one issue I can’t quite wrap my mind around: how do content creators benefit? The return on investment (ROI) seems to be missing. In my mind, this could be the element that bursts the AI hype bubble and reduces this technology from 'total disruptor' to 'cool innovation.'
Here are the latest tech comm articles and links for May 4, 2023.
Here are tech comm news and links for May 2, 2023.
Here are tech comm news and links for April 28, 2023.
The latest techcomm news for April 24, 2023.
I updated my site analytics page for the 2022 year. I usually do this at the turn of the year, particularly when renewing ads on the site, but this year I got lazy and postponed it until last weekend. In this post, I talk about a variety of site-related challenges and issues, from content focus to monetization and more.
