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# 2024 archives

1. [Using AI to mine log messages from reference doc builds (Prompt engineering series)](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/use-ai-to-mine-log-messages) | Dec 19, 2024
2. [AI stream journaling experiment](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-stream-journaling-experiment) | Dec 17, 2024
3. [Biohacking your glucose with AI](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/biohacking-your-glucose-with-ai) | Dec 17, 2024
4. [Q&A about adoc Studio, with Frank Blome](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/adoc-studio-qa-with-frank-blome) | Dec 16, 2024
5. [Q&A about Paligo -- modern CCMS -- with VP of Product Rasmus Petersson](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/paligo-modern-ccm-question-answer-rasmus-petersson) | Dec 1, 2024
6. [Should you join Bluesky?](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/should-you-join-bluesky-or-other-social-platforms) | Nov 23, 2024
7. [Using AI to design landing pages (prompt engineering series)](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/prompt-eng-landing-pages) | Nov 17, 2024
8. [Why designing landing pages is hard](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/designing-landing-pages) | Nov 13, 2024
9. [Unpacking the issues from AI — thoughts on Alan Porter's post Am I the AI Luddite? and Fabrizio Benedetti's How I'm using AI as a technical writer](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/unpacking-issues-from-ai-porter-benedetti-posts) | Nov 11, 2024
10. [To establish value, focus more on high priority projects: Reading Michael Lynch's post on why he quit Google to work for himself](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/reading-lynch-focus-on-high-priority-projects) | Nov 11, 2024
11. [Sadik-Khan's Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution, plus a visual account of Seattle's downtown biking and pedestrian infrastructure](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/sadik-khan-streetfight-book-review) | Nov 3, 2024
12. [From engineer interviews to written draft, with chain of thought reasoning](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/prompt-eng-iterative-chain-of-thought) | Nov 3, 2024
13. [New API course on mastering documentation by Mark Wentowski on Docsgeek](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/api-course-mark-docsgeek-mark-wentowski) | Nov 3, 2024
14. [Symposium on Usability and Design in France in April 2025](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/strasberg-symposium-usability-and-design) | Nov 3, 2024
15. [Strategies for making doc bugs actionable](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/make-documentation-bugs-actionable) | Oct 20, 2024
16. [Escaping the Productivity Trap: Experiments with Burkeman's Four Thousand Weeks — guest post by David Kowalsky](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/escape-productivity-trap-david-kowalsky-guest-post) | Oct 20, 2024
17. [NotebookLM podcasts -- the missing piece in the GenAI puzzle?](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/notebooklm-podcasts-and-technical-writing) | Oct 6, 2024
18. [[Podcast] GenAI and Document360: Conversation with Saravana Kumar](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/genai-and-document360) | Oct 6, 2024
19. [Using AI to jump-start code samples](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/prompt-eng-jump-start-code-samples) | Sep 29, 2024
20. [Unified Knowledge powered by Zoomin -- Q&A with Paul Maass](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/unified-knowledge-zoomin) | Sep 15, 2024
21. [Two days in my life as a technical writer, followed by reflection and analysis of fragmenting microtasks](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/two-days-in-life-as-technical-writer-reflection) | Sep 8, 2024
22. [What a day in the life of a Technical Writer in the energy industry looks like -- Guest post by Bonnie Denham](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/day-in-life-of-technical-writer-bonnie-denham) | Aug 28, 2024
23. [Routines and habit stacking](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/routines-and-habit-stacking) | Aug 26, 2024
24. [Podcast: Task decomposition and complex tree diagrams](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/podcast-prompt-eng-task-decomposition-diagrams) | Jul 28, 2024
25. [Podcast: Using long-token contexts to quality check an entire API doc set](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/podcast-prompt-eng-long-token-contexts) | Jul 28, 2024
26. [Podcast: Using file diffs for better release notes in reference docs](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/podcast-prompt-eng-release-notes-file-diffs) | Jul 28, 2024
27. [Podcast: Populating documentation templates using AI](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/podcast-prompt-eng-doc-templates) | Jul 28, 2024
28. [Podcast: Gathering source material for context input](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/podcast-prompt-eng-gather-source-material) | Jul 28, 2024
29. [Podcast: Creating high-fidelity, thematically organized notes from engineering meetings using AI](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/podcast-prompt-eng-meeting-notes) | Jul 28, 2024
30. [Blogging as personal training?](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/blogging-as-personal-training) | Jul 26, 2024
31. [Using long-token contexts to quality check an entire API doc set](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/long-token-contexts-entire-doc-sets) | Jul 15, 2024
32. [Seeing invisible details and avoiding predictable, conditioned thought (ZAMM series)](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/seeing-invisible-and-avoiding-predictive-thought) | Jun 26, 2024
33. [Automate links in your release notes using AI (prompt engineering)](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/automating-linking-with-ai) | Jun 26, 2024
34. [Links from around the web -- June 10, 2024](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/links-around-web-june-10-2024) | Jun 25, 2024
35. [[Podcast] Uncovering and communicating the value of your tech comm teams' work, with Keren Brown](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/value-techcomm-zoomin-podcast) | May 30, 2024
36. [[Prompt engineering series] Using file diffs for better release notes in reference docs](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/prompt-eng-release-notes-from-file-diffs) | May 25, 2024
37. [Updates two years later on my smartphone experiment](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/two-years-later-smartphone-experiment) | May 21, 2024
38. [Thoughts on Docs as code being a broken promise](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/thoughts-on-docs-as-code-promise) | May 21, 2024
39. [Get Better at Using Prompts With Deliberate Practice: One technical writer's little experiment — guest post by Diana Cheung](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/deliberate-ai-practice-diana-cheung) | Apr 23, 2024
40. [Prompt engineering series: Creating scripts to automate doc build processes](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/scripts-to-automate-doc-builds) | Apr 21, 2024
41. [What should your documentation metrics look like? Q&A with Zoomin about their 2024 Technical Content Benchmark Report](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/benchmark-report-documentation-metrics-from-zoomin) | Apr 14, 2024
42. [AI is accelerating my technical writing output, and other observations](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-is-accelerating-me) | Apr 14, 2024
43. [Upcoming conference: AI the API docs](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-the-api-docs-conference-preso) | Apr 3, 2024
44. [Prompt engineering series: Gathering source input](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/gathering-source-input-prompt-engineering) | Mar 20, 2024
45. [Prompt engineering series: Error checking the output](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/error-checking-the-output-prompt-engineering) | Mar 20, 2024
46. [Integrating AI with your content delivery platform and documentation: Zoomin Q&A with Keren Brown](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/zoomin-ai-integration-question-and-answer) | Mar 18, 2024
47. [Showcasing your API technical writer portfolio and projects — guest post by Peter Gustafson](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/portfolios-api-docs-peter-gustafson) | Mar 12, 2024
48. [Prompt engineering series: Reverse engineering the recipe for excellent documentation](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/prompt-engineering-reverse-engineering) | Mar 4, 2024
49. [Prompt engineering series: Populating documentation templates using AI](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/prompt-engineering-populating-documentation-templates) | Mar 4, 2024
50. [Prompt engineering: Task decomposition and complex tree diagrams](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/task-decomposition-prompt-engineering-series) | Feb 20, 2024
51. [Prompt engineering: Creating high-fidelity, thematically organized notes from engineering meetings using AI](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/summarizing-meeting-notes-amplifying-visibility) | Feb 20, 2024
52. [Visualizing APIs with tree diagrams, partly generated with AI](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/task-decomposition-tree-diagram-example) | Feb 13, 2024
53. [Walking and chatting with ChatGPT](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/walking-and-chatting-with-chatgpt) | Jan 21, 2024
54. [Moved AI pages into their own collection and space](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/move-ai-pages-into-dedicated-space) | Jan 20, 2024
55. [Coffee Chat recording: Ask Me Anything about Managing API documentation projects](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ama-managing-api-documentation-projects) | Jan 8, 2024
56. [Evaluating my 2023 site analytics -- why did my traffic drop?](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/site-analytics-for-2023) | Jan 7, 2024
57. [[Podcast] Breaking ground: New API documentation course at UW, with Bob Watson](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/api-documentation-course-uw-bob-watson) | Jan 5, 2024
58. [My 2024 technical writing trends and predictions](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/2024-tech-comm-trends-and-predictions) | Jan 1, 2024