Technological and coding misadventures!
The emergence of generative AI has transformed documentation from being an afterthought to a critical product. Companies must now create well-structured, clear, and accessible documents to meet both human and AI needs. This shift emphasizes consistency and quality, ultimately benefiting user support and product adoption. AI demands a standard of excellence. Continue reading
The WriteTheDocs community emphasizes treating documentation as a product, deserving equal rigor and ownership as code. Effective documentation requires intentional design for diverse audiences, integration with codebases, measurement of user engagement, and continuous iteration. By actively involving engineers, documentation quality improves, ultimately enhancing user experience and product success. Continue reading
The post addresses common shortcomings in online tutorials and documentation. It emphasizes the importance of clear prerequisites, context, real-world use cases, error handling, performance, security, integration, testing strategies, and attention to detail. The author urges tutorial creators to eliminate assumptions and provide comprehensive guidance for users of all skill levels. Continue reading
I’m in the process (with the team I work with) of trying to figure out what would be most useful to you, the community and its members in which we all work. Whether you’re a coder, working toward being a coder, programmer, engineer, or whatever it is that you aim for we want to know... Continue reading
In the last article I wrote on writing a code kata with F# on OS-X or Windows, I had wanted to use Linux but things just weren’t cooperating with me. Well, since that article I have resolved some of the issues I ran into, and this is the log of those issues. Issue 1: “How... Continue reading
