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Write the Docs Podcast

Write the Docs Podcast

Podcasts for the Write the Docs community. Mostly focused on tech comm, tech writing, UX, IA, and more.

Episodes

20 of 35 episodes

WTD Episode 35: Docs for Developers book, with Jared Bhatti and Zachary Sarah Corleissen

In this podcast, we discuss the newly released book Docs for Developers: An Engineer's Field Guide to Technical Writing with Jared Bhatti, s...

57:00Oct 31, 2021

WTD Episode 34: Adding personality to documentation, with Fabrizio Ferri

In this podcast, Fabrizio Ferri joins us for a discussion about adding both personal identity and personality to documentation. Why are the...

43:05Jun 26, 2021

WTD Episode 33: Simplified user interfaces, with Anton Bollen

One of the most challenging and frustrating things about being a tech writer is managing screenshots in your product documentation. How many...

58:38Jan 17, 2021

WTD Episode 32: Self-publishing and AsciiDoc, with Mehmed Pasic

Many tech writers are familiar with using AsciiDoc for documentation, but did you know that you can also create fiction and non-fiction book...

54:09Nov 1, 2020

WTD Episode 31: Strategies for site search, with Peter Levan

So many documentation websites rely on search as part of their information architecture. But what do you actually need to consider if you wa...

01:00:57Sep 10, 2020

WTD Episode 30: Documentation templates, with Juan Lara

In this episode, Juan Lara from Google joins us for a lively discussion about documentation templates. Documentation templates refer to esta...

01:01:56Jul 19, 2020

WTD Episode 29: Salary Survey results and WFH tips, with Eric Holscher

In this episode, we chat with Eric Holscher, co-founder of both Read the Docs and Write the Docs, about the recent Salary Survey that the WT...

56:03Apr 12, 2020

WTD Episode 28: UX writing - Starting and Scaling at your Company, Berlin WTD meetup

Episode 28 is a recording of a Berlin WTD meetup focused on UX writing processes, live streamed on March 9, 2020 at the Humanitec in Berlin....

01:14:54Mar 17, 2020

WTD Episode 27: Starting a doc group/process when you're the first

In episode 27 of the Write the Docs podcast, we're joined by Cynthia Ng and Amy Qualls from GitLab to talk about strategies for starting up...

57:43Feb 20, 2020

WTD Episode 26: Tech Writing and Reddit, with Alan Bowman

In episode 26, we talk with Alan Bowman about the technical writing forum on Reddit as well as the WTD Slack channel, comparing and contrast...

01:04:24Dec 31, 2019

WTD Episode 25: Researching how developers use API docs, with Andrew Head

In episode 25, we talk with Andrew Head, Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science at UC Berkeley, about his research on how developers use API do...

56:14Oct 20, 2019

WTD Episode 24: Conference chatter and the Australian scene, with Swapnil Ogale

In this episode, we're joined by the Write the Docs Australia initiator Swapnil Ogale. We talk about conference wind-downs and ramp-ups, hig...

55:20Sep 22, 2019

WTD Episode 23: How to write inclusive tech documentation, by Lucie Le Naour

In this episode, rather than the usual roundtable discussion, we provide a recording of a WTD Berlin presentation by Lucie Le Naour on how t...

38:42Aug 19, 2019

WTD Episode 22: Managing multiple doc projects across Git repositories, with Giles Gaskell

In episode 22, Giles Gaskell from Squiz in Australia joins us to talk about managing multiple doc projects across Git repositories through A...

01:01:40Jul 28, 2019

WTD Episode 21: On career growth, leadership, and mentoring in tech writing, with Becky Todd

In episode 21, Becky Todd from Atlassian joins us to talk about career growth, leadership, and mentoring. How do you move up to the next lev...

59:21Mar 31, 2019

WTD Episode 20: Minimum requirements for good tech docs, with Matt Reiner

In episode 20, Matt Reiner from K15t joins us to talk about minimum standards for documentation - what techniques or standards can you put i...

57:15Mar 2, 2019

WTD Episode 19: Static site generators, with Jessica Parsons

Jessica Parsons, a documentation engineer from Netlify, joins us for Episode 19 of the WTD Podcast. Jess recently conducted a Static Site Ge...

01:02:40Jan 31, 2019

WTD Episode 18: Recap and thoughts on Write the Docs Australia 2018

In episode 18 of the Write the Docs podcast, we discuss the recent Write the Docs Australia 2018 conference held in Melbourne. Jared was an...

50:20Nov 25, 2018

WTD Episode 17: Structured writing — reasons and approaches

In this Write the Docs podcast episode, we chat with Mark Baker about structured writing, specifically focusing on his new book Structured W...

58:38Oct 22, 2018

WTD Episode 16: An open-source Grammarly for tech docs?

This episode focuses mainly on testing tools. Last month, some rockstar WTD community members spent a few days at the Pronovix offices in Sz...

01:03:31Sep 5, 2018