AI-Generated Apps Every bucket has a bottom: How to shrink your queue and manage what's left No one knows how big anyone else's bucket is. Your job is to show them and then build a system that does it for you. This post is part of the Per the docs article series. Links to the rest of the series are at the end of
Per the docs Unwritten content rules that experienced writers follow So much of a tech writer's knowledge lives in judgment calls, instinctive edits, and choices that you've developed over years of writing for people in real situations. This tacit knowledge is one of the most undervalued things that an experienced technical writer brings to their work.
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Git Docs-as-code gotchas for technical writers You've made the switch to docs-as-code. Git makes sense. Branches are fine. Then your build fails for no reason. These are the invisible problems that make you question whether you broke something critical, or just don't understand how any of this works.
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Git Git hygiene for technical writers A former colleague reached out: "Any tips for someone starting a job that does docs as code?" Here's what I learned through trial, error, and years of working with teams at AWS.
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