My name is Tom Johnson, and I’m a technical writer based in the Seattle, Washington area. I write about technical writing topics such as API documentation, AI, documentation processes, and tech comm careers on my blog, I’d Rather Be Writing. One of the most popular parts of the site is my course on API documentation.
Before moving into technical writing, I taught writing at The American University in Cairo and worked as a copywriter. Since then, I’ve written documentation for a financial company, government and non-profit organizations, several startups in the Bay Area, Amazon, and Google. For more background, see my blog’s about page.
I have used this theme and variations of it for various documentation projects. This theme has undergone several major iterations, and now it’s fairly stable and full of all the features that I need. You are welcome to use it for your documentation projects for free.
I think this theme does pretty much everything that you can do with something like OxygenXML, but without the constraints of structured authoring. Everything is completely open and changeable, so if you start tinkering around with the theme’s files, you can break things. But it’s completely empowering as well!
With a completely open architecture and code base, you can modify the code to make it do exactly what you want, without having to jump through all kinds of confusing or proprietary code.
If there’s a feature you need but it isn’t available here, let me know and I might add it. Alternatively, if you fork the theme, I would love to see your modifications and enhancements. Thanks for using Jekyll.