Write the Docs Podcast episode 33 is available. In this podcast, we chat with Anton Bollen from Techsmith about using simplified user interfaces with screenshots. A simplified user interface reduces…
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Sometimes treating docs as code seems overly complicated. Let’s break it into component parts – static site generators, development environments, source control, continuous integration, hosting, deployment, and testing docs. Yes…
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Maybe it’s a subordinate clause lesson, because that’s the key here. From the June 2021 Scientific American, page 62: In Lisbon, Portugal, the social centers Disgraça and RDA69,which strive to…
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There are a variety of reasons for purchasing a new printer, but a likely one is that your old one has just kicked the bucket, leaving you in a jam…
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Lately I’ve been trying trying something that I call life experiments. These are goals that I adopt for about 50 days and then evaluate their impact on my life. With…
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For my future reference, in case I ever get this error message again—the steps in solution 1 on this page worked for me! https://helpx.adobe.com/au/acrobat/kb/bad-parameter-while-deleting-pages-in-acrobat.html In case that page ever goes…
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In a recent post about writing a doc plan or a design doc, I mentioned that it’s useful to conduct one or more walkthroughs of the doc plan or design…
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A dieresis is two dots above the second of a pair of vowels to show that you pronounce each vowel; it’s not a diphthong. Perhaps the most common example is…
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I recently added a much-needed topic in my API course: a list of criteria for assessing API documentation quality. This list has 80 characteristics sorted into the following categories: Findability,…
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You know the difference, right? https://www.gocomics.com/luann/2021/06/22 Rhyme means they end with the same soundAlliteration is when they begin with the same sound.