June 21, 2022
We chat with Jared Bhatti and Zachary Sarah Corleissen, two technical writers with deep expertise at main tech firms and open supply tasks, about their strategy to documentation and the brand new e-book they helped co-author, Doc For Devs.
We chat with Jared Bhatti and Zachary Sarah Corleissen, two technical writers with deep expertise at main tech firms and open supply tasks, about their strategy to documentation and the brand new e-book they helped co-author, Doc For Devs. We go deep on the most effective methods to annotate a codebase for future generations and localize explainer content material in order that it really works for groups throughout a number of areas and languages.
Episode notes:
Docs for Devs: An Engineer’s Subject Information to Technical Writing could be discovered right here.
Jared labored as a technical author at Google for greater than 14 years and lately transitioned to Waymo, the self-driving automobile firm spun out below the Alphabet umbrella. You could find him on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Zachary has been a technical author at GitHub and the Linux Basis, and now works as a workers technical author at Stripe. You could find all his on-line accounts at his web site.
Curious about exploring approaches for collaboration and data administration on engineering groups? Why not strive a software builders already flip to recurrently? Take a look at Stack Overflow for Groups, utilized by Microsoft, Bloomberg, and lots of others.
Uninterested in safety bottlenecks? Immediately’s episode is sponsored by Snyk, a developer safety platform that robotically scans your code, dependencies, containers, and cloud configs — discovering and fixing vulnerabilities in actual time, from the instruments and workflows you already use. Create your free account at snyk.co/stackoverflow.
Tags: docs for devs, documentation, technical writing, the stack overflow podcast
