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# 2023 archives

1. [Book review: Understanding Girls with ADHD: How They Feel and Why They Do What They Do](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/understanding-girls-with-adhd-book-review-summary) | Dec 31, 2023
2. [Etto, a new AI co-pilot for Heretto — Q&A with Casey Jordan](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/heretto-etto-question-and-answer-with-casey-jordan) | Dec 18, 2023
3. [Podcast: Notes and themes from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/zen-and-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance-pirsig-notes-themes-podcast) | Dec 15, 2023
4. [Webinar recording: Experiments and use cases for AI from a tech writer’s perspective](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/stc-webinar-experiments-use-cases-ai) | Dec 13, 2023
5. [30+ ways I’m using AI in everyday writing life as a technical writer, blogger, and curious human](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/all-the-ways-im-using-ai-tools-in-everyday-life) | Dec 4, 2023
6. [Podcast: The evolution of podcasting, with Ed Marsh](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/evolution-of-podcasting-podcast-ed-marsh) | Dec 3, 2023
7. [Webinar: Let's talk API docs: a discussion about issues impacting documentation for APIs](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/webinar-lets-talk-api-docs) | Dec 3, 2023
8. [Podcast: Tech writing and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, with Dan Grabski](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/zen-motorcycle-maintenance-dan-grabski) | Nov 18, 2023
9. [You've heard of 'Docs as code' -- Now get ready for 'Code as docs': Q&A with Speakeasy](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/speakeasy-question-answer-code-as-docs) | Nov 9, 2023
10. [Doing research with AI tools -- avoiding the trap of fabricated URLs](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/research-with-ai-dealing-with-fake-research) | Nov 9, 2023
11. [Notes for Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/building-the-cycling-city-dutch-blueprint-notes) | Nov 6, 2023
12. [Movemate standing board review — fixing your back, legs from sedentary decline from a tech job](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/movemate-review-standing-board) | Oct 29, 2023
13. [My experience trying to write original, full-length human-sounding articles using Claude AI](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/writing-full-length-articles-with-claude-ai) | Oct 25, 2023
14. [Chatting about AI trends and tech comm with Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-chat-fabrizio-podcast) | Oct 20, 2023
15. [What is Diátaxis and should you be using it with your documentation?](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/what-is-diataxis-documentation-framework) | Oct 18, 2023
16. [[Podcast] AI and APIs: What works, what doesn't](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-apis-what-works-and-doesnt-video-recording-podcast) | Oct 14, 2023
17. [Forrester Report, Coding jobs, Hyper-personalization, RFPs, Call center replacement (Oct 9, 2023)](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/links-from-web-oct-9) | Oct 9, 2023
18. [What I learned in using AI for planning and prioritization: Content strategy might be safe from automation](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/content-strategy-safe-from-automation) | Oct 6, 2023
19. [Open-source contribution myths, Hiring poets to train LLMs, Problems with 'content', AI agents (Oct 6, 2023)](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/links-from-web-oct-6-2023) | Oct 5, 2023
20. [Embracing professional redefinition](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/embracing-professional-redefinition) | Oct 3, 2023
21. [Documentation failures, Bestiaries, AI Explain post mortem, Inside TechComm podcast (Oct 3, 2023)](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/links-web-oct3-2023) | Oct 2, 2023
22. [New article: AI and APIs: What works, what doesn't](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-and-apis-what-works-and-doesnt) | Sep 28, 2023
23. [Claude versus ChatGPT -- and a few thoughts on using AI chatbots on an Alaskan cruise](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/comparing-claude-vs-chatgpt-on-an-alaskan-cruise) | Sep 18, 2023
24. [Alphadoc: Build API documentation that tells your API's story](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/alphadoc-question-and-answer) | Sep 17, 2023
25. [New API course topic: Using AI for summaries](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/use-ai-for-summaries) | Sep 7, 2023
26. [Links from around the web (Sept 5, 2023)](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/links-from-web-sept5-2023) | Sep 5, 2023
27. [New API doc course topic: Using AI for glossary definitions](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/use-ai-glossaries-defs) | Sep 4, 2023
28. [New API doc course topic: Using AI for comparison tasks with API responses](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/using-ai-for-comparison-tasks) | Aug 28, 2023
29. [New API doc course topic: Using AI For thematic analysis](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/api-thematic-analysis) | Aug 28, 2023
30. [New API doc course topic: Using AI for language advice](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/use-ai-for-language-advice) | Aug 9, 2023
31. [New API doc course topic: Using AI to create doc updates based on bugs](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-create-doc-bug-updates) | Aug 9, 2023
32. [New API doc course topic: Using AI to learn coding](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/use-ai-to-learn-coding) | Jul 25, 2023
33. [New topic in API course: Using AI tools to write build and publish scripts](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-tools-writing-build-and-publish-scripts) | Jul 19, 2023
34. [New topic in API doc course: AI document engineering with pattern-based prompts](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-document-engineering-patterns) | Jul 6, 2023
35. [First Look at Oxygen XML's Positron AI Assistant [API doc course]](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/oxygen-xml-positron-assistant-first-look) | Jul 4, 2023
36. [Adding a new AI section to my API doc course](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/new-ai-section-for-api-doc-course) | Jul 4, 2023
37. [First look at the Oxygen XML's AI Positron Assistant](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/first-look-at-oxygen-xml-positron-assistant) | Jul 4, 2023
38. [Telling your conversion story into tech comm](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/writing-the-conversion-story-toward-tech-comm) | Jun 25, 2023
39. [Chapter PDFs for API doc course](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/chapter-pdfs-for-api-doc-course) | Jun 25, 2023
40. [How to meet other technical writers in Seattle -- WTD Seattle coffee chats](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/how-to-meet-technical-writers-in-seattle) | Jun 25, 2023
41. [How the blog-to-book experiment is going: challenges and thoughts](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/blog-to-book-experiment-progress) | Jun 15, 2023
42. [Blog and API doc course are now one site](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/blog-and-api-doc-site-merged-same-code) | Jun 9, 2023
43. [Doctave Q&A with Niklas Begley](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/doctave-qa-niklas-begley) | Jun 8, 2023
44. [News turns the content wheel of advertising](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/news-turns-content-wheel-of-advertising) | May 19, 2023
45. [Newsletter: Endless news cycles, style checkers, finding research, noticing things around you](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/news-cycle-wordtune-noticing-things-research) | May 19, 2023
46. [How to find academic research to back up your tech comm decisions](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/how-to-find-academic-research-tech-comm) | May 19, 2023
47. [Book review of the Art of Noticing, by Rob Walker](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/art-of-noticing-rob-walker-book-review) | May 19, 2023
48. [AI starting to diminish work for student essay ghostwriters](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-diminishing-academic-ghostwriters-cheating) | May 19, 2023
49. [From DITA to docs-as-code and Docusaurus: Q&A with Mike Howes](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/docusaurus-questions-and-answers-howes) | May 16, 2023
50. [Newsletter: Copilot for Docs, Wappalyzer, Illusions, Late projects, Forbidden Fruit](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/copilot-illusions-late-projects-forbidden) | May 11, 2023
51. [Newsletter: Doctave, Chatbase, SiteGPT, small CLs, TC bibliography](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/doctave-microchat-small-cls-bibliography) | May 9, 2023
52. [What’s missing from the AI workflow: incentives for content creators to provide training data](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/content-creators-need-roi-from-ai) | May 4, 2023
53. [Newsletter: Content creator ROI, Netlify, Madbot, and Hollywood](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/content-creator-roi-madbot-netlify-hollywood) | May 4, 2023
54. [Newsletter: AI doc alerts, state of tools, saying easy or just, automated writing teams](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-alerts-tools-easy-automated-teams) | May 2, 2023
55. [Newsletter: Docusaurus, Lens, Docs-as-Code, 2022 site analytics, and HTML Table formatting](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/docusaurus-lens-docs-as-code-tables) | Apr 27, 2023
56. [Newsletter: Markprompt Q&A, LearningDITA, Snowflake docs, AI Commits](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/markprompt-dita-snowflake-aicommits) | Apr 24, 2023
57. [Meandering thoughts on my 2022 site analytics](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/site-analytics-2022) | Apr 23, 2023
58. [Markprompt Q&A with Michael Fester](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/markprompt-questions-and-answers) | Apr 23, 2023
59. [Newsletter: Alphadoc, vocab lookup, field, Open Assistant, Markprompt, content ops](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/alphadoc-markprompt-open-assistant-vocab) | Apr 20, 2023
60. [Newsletter: GPT-4 tutors, Phind.com, Dark user manuals, interfaces for reading docs, automation scripts, and bball](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/tutors-phind-dark-manuals-interfaces-automation) | Apr 17, 2023
61. [AI chat interfaces could become the primary user interface to read documentation](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-chat-interfaces-are-the-new-user-interface-for-docs) | Apr 17, 2023
62. [Using AI tools to look up words and provide mini-poems to help remember their meaning](https://idratherbewriting.com/2023/04/16/using-ai-tools-for-vocabulary-lookup/) | Apr 16, 2023
63. [A script that creates a new Jekyll post and populates it with YAML frontmatter, and also makes a curl call to add a Rebrandly shortlink](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/create-script-to-auto-create-new-post-jekyll) | Apr 16, 2023
64. [Newsletter: Docs-as-ecosystem, structure in WordPress, identity crisis, and pencils](https://idratherbewriting.com/2023/04/14/ecosystem-structure-identity-pencils/) | Apr 14, 2023
65. [Newsletter: AI and tech comm survey results, Zoomin's predictions, Beating an ATS, ChatGPT plugin docs](https://idratherbewriting.com/2023/04/11/whats-going-on-in-tech-comm/) | Apr 11, 2023
66. [Survey results: Technical writers on AI](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/survey-analysis-tech-writers-on-ai/) | Apr 10, 2023
67. [Newsletter: Why engineers need to write, tech writers in pop culture, 101 subreddit, Cambrian period of AI (April 4, 2023)](https://idratherbewriting.com/2023/04/04/tech-comm-links/) | Apr 4, 2023
68. [Survey on the impact of AI on tech comm](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/survey-ai-impact-on-tech-comm/) | Apr 3, 2023
69. [Upcoming Webinar: API Trends Across the Lifecycle Webinar (April 11, 2023)](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/upcoming-stoplight-webinar-april-11/) | Apr 3, 2023
70. [Beyond 'parts' documentation: Moving towards systems thinking with developer portals](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/dev-portals-and-systems-thinking/) | Mar 26, 2023
71. [The influence of language-generative AI tools on tech comm: parlor tricks or disruption?](https://idratherbewriting.com/trends/trends-to-follow-or-forget-language-generative-ai.html) | Mar 13, 2023
72. [Updates on my standing experiment: surprisingly good for the lower back](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/the-standing-experiment/) | Mar 11, 2023
73. [Presentation recording: Specialization myopia syndrome and the content journey](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/specialization-myopia-and-content-journey) | Mar 7, 2023
74. [Podcast: All about Redocly, with founder Adam Altman](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/redocly-podcast/) | Feb 26, 2023
75. [Building your own balance board for a standing desk](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/build-your-own-standing-desk-standing-office/) | Feb 24, 2023
76. [Finally got Covid -- my experience](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/omicron-symptoms-experience/) | Feb 13, 2023
77. [Five ways to leverage big-picture thinking as a technical writer](https://idratherbewriting.com/trends/five-approaches-to-big-picture-thinking-tech-comm.html) | Feb 12, 2023
78. [New Job-Hunter Support Group course offered by Bobby Kennedy](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/job-hunters-networking-group-bobby-kennedy/) | Jan 26, 2023
79. [New series: Sitting, standing, and walking](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/sitting-standing-walking-introduction/) | Jan 25, 2023
80. [Approaching the college personal essay: Tips as a parent helping your student write a compelling essay](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/help-students-with-personal-essay-common-app) | Jan 17, 2023