By the end, you'll have concrete techniques you can use today to reduce friction and anxiety in your documentation workflows, especially when juggling multiple changes at once.
Don’t miss this talk at Write the Docs Portland, May 3-5!
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For years, Sarah used Git the way many people do: just enough to feel competent, but not enough to recover if anything went sideways. This talk, “The Git Commands I Avoided for 9 Years (and Why I Wish I Hadn't)”, is a writer-friendly tour of the Git commands she avoided for years.
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As the sole Technical Writer on a team, Alina serves as a bridge, educator, advocate, and culture-builder. She learned that documentation influences everything: product clarity, UI, and API experiences.
Don’t miss her talk at Write the Docs Portland, May 3-5!
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Many technical communicators already practice the skills needed to shape high-impact technical narratives, but don't always see how those skills translate outside documentation contexts.
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Write the Docs Portland, May 3-5!
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After spending three months manually auditing a major developer documentation portal, Rakesh found deprecated code examples, broken API references, and outdated content, but the real problem was that the audit was obsolete within weeks. So he built an AI tool to do it continuously.
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If you've ever wondered why people aren't contributing to your open source documentation even though they said they would, or if you want to make it easier for newcomers to actually get started, this talk might help.
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⏰ Write the Docs Portland 2026 is just two months away!
Our 𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗲 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲 is now live. Whether you’re a first-timer or a returning regular, check it out for what to expect this year.
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🎟️ Tickets: buff.ly/jztunZT
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In this talk, Ethan Palm will share how teams actually use AI tools, where automation succeeds and fails, and how technical writer roles are evolving.
Don’t miss this talk at Write the Docs Portland, May 3-5!
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The conversations at Write the Docs don't feel like networking, they feel like reconnecting with people who just get it. Year after year, Marcia keeps coming back because this community is unlike anything else in the industry.
Let Marcia tell you herself.
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In her talk, Darlene ChaniMaya Postma shares how Twitch is redesigning their Community Guidelines supporting docs to function as real-time decision support, while remaining mindful of risks and other factors.
Don’t miss this talk: Write the Docs Portland, May 3-5!
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In her talk “𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗱: 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗨𝘀𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀”, Annie shares a practical method to structure documentation based on user progress, particularly with inherited content and users who are upskilling.
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📆 Write the Docs Portland, May 3-5
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Check out our Convince Your Manager guide for talking points, benefits, and a customizable approval request template.
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🗣️ We're excited to announce the speakers for the 2026 Portland conference!
Each year, we strive to bring a diverse array of voices and topics.
Full list here:
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🗓️ May 3-5, 2026
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⌛Our Opportunity Grant program closes tomorrow on Feb 5 at 11:59 Pacific Time.
Applications are open to anyone who wants to attend Write the Docs, and would otherwise have difficulty attending.
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We’re just over 3 months out from Write the Docs ✏️
Check out our Visiting Portland page, for information on tons of food recommendations, and our hotel partners.
⏰ Opportunity Grant applications close Feb 4.
🙌 Sign up to Volunteer, as spots are filling up quick!
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*Last call for talk submissions*
⏰ Folks who like leaving things last minute, this is it! There’s just 1 day left to submit your talk proposal.
Submit your proposal by tomorrow, January 19, 11:59p.m. PT Pacific Time.
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Happy New Year, fellow documentarians! 🎉
📣 Call for Proposals are open until January 19, 11:59 PM Pacific time.
🎫 Tickets are on sale, Opportunity Grants and volunteer applications are open.
📝 We’re considering changing the format of Writing Day. Share your ideas!
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This is important. "The writers you let go were the supply chain for the intelligence you're now betting on."
"…documentation […] is not a byproduct of development: it's the glue that ties the product together."
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Canceled vs. cancelled. It is small. Murder hornets are small. I write in a domain where "cancel" is a common verb & object state. Our code, APIs, & UIs are full of "cancel". Those murder hornets are constantly popping up. #technicalWriting #techWriterLife #writeTheDocs
Headed to Japan for the next month, and would love to catch up with anyone in the #python or #writethedocs community that is around!
Them: We want something light & cheap & collaborative. Let's use Google Docs!
Me: Uh, OK, as long as we keep expectations realis...
Them: Hey, we need numbered headings! And the TOC doesn't update automatically! What about our fonts?
Me: *sigh*
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Adventures in technical writing: I just caught this typo in a draft:
"Shite+Win+S (Windows)"
Freudian slip?
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At #WriteTheDocs Berlin in October, a few people told me, unprompted, that my README checklist helped them document something. Maybe it can help you document something too!
🔥🔥Buying a Piece of Shit🔥🔥
Best chapter title ever. I must find a way to work this into my user-facing docs. #techWriterLife #technicalWriting #writeTheDocs
Just back from a wonderful, amazing, intense #WriteTheDocs Berlin conference, back in-person (actually, hybrid) in Europe after six virtual years.
Even better: I was one of the MC’s, which is (for me) way too much fun to be allowed.
It felt like coming home. It was coming home.
I gave my first lightning talk ⚡💬 at WTD Berlin 2025 ✨
I stayed within my 5 minutes, didn't sweat too much or fart loudly or throw up on stage, and talked about a classic, evergreen combo: technical writing and metal guitar solo recording 📝 🎸🤘
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Around at #writethedocs, Berlin today.
Two talks about Open Source today, one from Powen Shiah at the Sovereign Tech Fund.
This is happening!
@theletterf.bsky.social is now live on the #writethedocs stage at Berlin.
