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Why I Became a Documentation Engineer
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Case study: turning an idea into a finished project using Gemini
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Bosch FGS4000 3D Demo (1984)
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You can re-edit it to preserve the How though.
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How I use AI as a technical writer
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2y ago
And also "Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing!", of course.
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As John Cleese once said, “serious doesn’t inevitably mean solemn”.
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My post wasn't concerned with internal code documentation. Seems like we're having parallel conversations.
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It's known. Example: https://mintlify.com/blog/stripe-docs
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Sad to read your n=20 was like that. There are also cases where documentation led companies to growth—one example is Stripe. Poking the finger at documentation is easy because it's visible and readily available. Would you say the bit r
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> When I'm working collaboratively and I hear people tell me what I'm doing is not important, I have to believe there is some truth to it. No, you don't have to. And that's the whole point.
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Author here. What do you mean by depth and breadth?
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You need good source material, including docs, to have LLMs generate docs that are accurate, reliable, and safe. LLMs have interesting applications in areas like SDK and API docs, for sure, but can't replace an entire function.
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Thanks! It's a tweaked version of https://github.com/mrmierzejewski/hugo-theme-console
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And the resulting failed documentation, I guess.
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Author here. No, I don't think it does. https://passo.uno/ai-anxiety-tech-writer-howto/
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An Oral History of Morphing in Michael Jackson's 'Black or White' (2016)
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Oh, you still code in Visual Basic? Fascinating. May I ask what's the use case and how are you finding coding in VB these days?
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All wallpapers are available here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-backgrounds/-/tree/gnom... Windows and macOS users, notice that they're in JXL format. You'll need a converter to use the
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Not sure if they knew about this or Kojima predicted the future, but a conceptually similar floating carrier was in Death Stranding: https://deathstranding.fandom.com/wiki/Floating_carrier Maybe games inspire life?
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In the same space, I recommend checking out the Vale linter. Fairly powerful and open source, too. And doesn't rely on a backend. https://vale.sh
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"Say what you will about the tenets of Perl, but at least it's an ethos."
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Video games used to have user manuals. Some were great and memorable! https://passo.uno/video-game-manuals-docs/
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TypeSpec reminds us why OpenAPI exists in the first place
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This is the kind of "why not" projects that one could use Copilot for! Sorry, I'm heading to my workstation to ask Copilot to help me build a new JVM language using ancient Greek reserved words.
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I've heard this before. It sounds good, but where to start?
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The pedigree is outstanding, but what makes Djot superior to, say, reStructuredText or Asciidoc?
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People often create to fulfill a need. The need might be intrinsic -- the need to create something. But back to the point: Agreed, you described well the existing tension. At one end of the spectrum you've systems like LaTeX and DITA;
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Very interesting. If people keeps creating their own extensions of Markdown it's because there's a need somewhere for a comprehensive markup language. Markdown wasn't invented with documentation in mind, for example, so now w
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Docs... And a technical writer that'll tend to them. https://passo.uno/signs-need-tech-writer/
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