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...
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Podcasts for the Write the Docs community. Mostly focused on tech comm, tech writing, UX, IA, and more.
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20 of 35 episodesWTD 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...