A series of guides to help you understand and practice writing, designing, and testing plain language.
Docs as Code: The Best Guide for Technical Writers
Recently, my work has involved writing a lot of documentation and. Doing this has introduced me to...
Writing Handbook: How to source writing ideas
Learn how to write an introduction paragraph. This guide explains the writing process for introductions, as well as the process for deciding what to write about.
Library Guides: ATU-AT-Motif: Explanation of pages
Library Guides: ATU-AT-Motif: Explanation of pages
Programming Sites for Technical Writers
Today, I’ll share some programming courses with you which help you to learn basic coding if it’s required by your work.
Home Page
The Self-Publishing Guide is an excellent resource to help you plan, prepare, write, and publish an open textbook.
Guide: Inclusive Language and Vocabulary for Startups and Tech
Understanding the vocabulary of diversity & inclusion can feel like learning a new (but very worthwhile!) language. Here's our incomplete but growing guide.
Knuth: Literate Programming
This book is the first in a series of eight volumes that contain archival forms of my published papers, together with new material.
Command Line Interface Guidelines
An open-source guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day.
Recommended books for learning Dutch – Understanding Dutch
List of the best books for learning Dutch, regularly updated. Grammar workbooks, phrasebooks, and essential introductions to Dutch.
Introduction – Learn Japanese
This guide was created as a resource for those who want to learn Japanese grammar in a rational, intuitive way that makes sense in Japanese. The explanations are focused on how to make sense of the grammar not from English but from a Japanese point of view.
Toward a durable writing stack – Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider
I have benefited over the years from others who have documented their writing setups, and so I feel some obligation to pay the favor forward by doing so with my own. The stack I’ll describe here is one I’ve been iterating on for about twenty years, starting from when I began discovering the pleasures of plain-text writing. Every aspect of it has changed over that period, but the some basic goals and flows have been with me through the writing of my college thesis, five books, and hundreds of articles. I am quite happy with where I am, and others might benefit from what I’ve come up with.
Guidance on Authoring Lexicons
At last weekend's Atmosphere Conference, there were a lot of questions about how author Lexicons. I thought it would be a good idea to share some guidance.
