--- title: "Let’s Talk Docs podcast – episode on measuring API documentation quality" date: 2022-03-07 description: "You can listen to episode 2 on the Let’s Talk Docs site or embedded below. In this episode, we chat about the For AI agents: a documentation index is available at https://idratherbewriting.com/llms.txt. Markdown versions of all pages are available by appending .md to any page URL. # Let’s Talk Docs podcast – episode on measuring API documentation quality > There's a new podcast called [Let's Talk Docs](https://ltd-podcast.sustainoss.org/), hosted by Portia Burton and Eric Holscher (co-founder of Write the Docs). They recently interviewed me for episode 2. You can listen to episode 2 on the [Let’s Talk Docs](https://ltd-podcast.sustainoss.org/2) site or embedded below. In this episode, we chat about the [API documentation checklist](https://idratherbewriting.com/learnapidoc/docapis_quality_checklist.html) I created in my [API documentation course](https://idratherbewriting.com/learnapidoc/). While discussing criteria for [measuring documentation quality](https://idratherbewriting.com/learnapidoc/docapis_measuring_impact.html), we also chatted about the [Developer Portal Awards from Pronovix](https://pronovix.com/blog/best-developer-portals-2021). This year I served as a juror for the [API reference](https://pronovix.com/blog/best-developer-portals-2021#apiref), [onboarding](https://pronovix.com/blog/best-developer-portals-2021#onboarding), [internal portals](https://pronovix.com/blog/best-developer-portals-2021#internal), [developer dashboard](https://pronovix.com/blog/best-developer-portals-2021#dashboard), and [editorial experience](https://pronovix.com/blog/best-developer-portals-2021#editorial) categories – alongside [Ellis Pratt](https://twitter.com/ellispratt), [Bob Watson](https://twitter.com/bobwatsonphd), and [Lukas Rosenstock](https://twitter.com/LukasRosenstock). By the way, you can see some jury commentary about what makes for winning developer portals [in a Pronovix video interview here](https://pronovix.com/blog/what-goes-award-winning-developer-portal-2021). (My comments appear about 24 minutes into this video.) We also chat about other topics in this Let’s Talk Docs podcast, such as writing philosophies, community engagement, and [life stories](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/life-story-what-shapes-your-lifes-trajectory/), but the focus on measuring API documentation quality probably has the most emphasis. The Let’s Talk Docs podcast (which is associated under the larger [Sustain podcast](https://podcast.sustainoss.org/)) has several other episodes available as well: - [Episode 4: Swapnil Ogale](https://ltd-podcast.sustainoss.org/4) - [Episode 3: Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti](https://ltd-podcast.sustainoss.org/3) - [Episode 1: Megan Sullivan](https://ltd-podcast.sustainoss.org/1) I added Let’s Talk Docs to my [list of tech comm podcasts here](https://idratherbewriting.com/podcasts#recommended).