2024 archives
Blogging as personal training? | Jul 26, 2024
Using long-token contexts to quality check an entire API doc set | Jul 15, 2024
Seeing invisible details and avoiding predictable, conditioned thought (ZAMM series) | Jun 26, 2024
Automate links in your release notes using AI (prompt engineering) | Jun 26, 2024
Links from around the web -- June 10, 2024 | Jun 25, 2024
[Podcast] Uncovering and communicating the value of your tech comm teams' work, with Keren Brown | May 30, 2024
[Prompt engineering series] Using file diffs for better release notes in reference docs | May 25, 2024
Updates two years later on my smartphone experiment | May 21, 2024
Thoughts on Docs as code being a broken promise | May 21, 2024
Get Better at Using Prompts With Deliberate Practice: One technical writer's little experiment — guest post by Diana Cheung | Apr 23, 2024
Prompt engineering series: Creating scripts to automate doc build processes | Apr 21, 2024
What should your documentation metrics look like? Q&A with Zoomin about their 2024 Technical Content Benchmark Report | Apr 14, 2024
AI is accelerating my technical writing output, and other observations | Apr 14, 2024
Upcoming conference: AI the API docs | Apr 3, 2024
Prompt engineering series: Gathering source input | Mar 20, 2024
Prompt engineering series: Error checking the output | Mar 20, 2024
Integrating AI with your content delivery platform and documentation: Zoomin Q&A with Keren Brown | Mar 18, 2024
Showcasing your API technical writer portfolio and projects — guest post by Peter Gustafson | Mar 12, 2024
Prompt engineering series: Reverse engineering the recipe for excellent documentation | Mar 4, 2024
Prompt engineering series: Populating documentation templates using AI | Mar 4, 2024
Prompt engineering: Task decomposition and complex tree diagrams | Feb 20, 2024
Prompt engineering: Creating high-fidelity, thematically organized notes from engineering meetings using AI | Feb 20, 2024
Visualizing APIs with tree diagrams, partly generated with AI | Feb 13, 2024
Walking and chatting with ChatGPT | Jan 21, 2024
Moved AI pages into their own collection and space | Jan 20, 2024
Coffee Chat recording: Ask Me Anything about Managing API documentation projects | Jan 8, 2024
Evaluating my 2023 site analytics -- why did my traffic drop? | Jan 7, 2024
[Podcast] Breaking ground: New API documentation course at UW, with Bob Watson | Jan 5, 2024
My 2024 technical writing trends and predictions | Jan 1, 2024
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