Tom Johnson
@tomjoht.bsky.social
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Tech writer based in Seattle, write API docs, blog at idratherbewriting.com, bike to work in rain
The WTD Salary Survey for 2024 is open and they need more people to complete it.
salary-survey.writethedocs.org
. It's a well-thought out and organized survey.
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WTD Documentation Salary Survey 2024 - open for submissions!
Our salary survey is now open for submissions! Help us create a benchmark for appropriate salary ranges for documentation roles world-wide.
https://salary-survey.writethedocs.org/
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New post: "Should you join Bluesky?" In this post, I reflect on social media platforms in general, especially online spaces for technical writers, and what benefits and tradeoffs they have. In my experience, the more I scroll social media, the fewer books I read.
idbwrtng.com/should-you-j...
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Should you join Bluesky?
Bluesky, a social media platform similar to Twitter, has been trending post-election due to disappointment with X. In this post, I reflect on social media platforms in general, especially online space...
https://idbwrtng.com/should-you-join-bluesky-or-other-social-platforms
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The more I use AI, the more convinced I am that AI will become more and more prevalent across industries. I keep building out my prompt engineering for docs series:
idratherbewriting.com/ai/prompt-en...
. Someone compared using AI tools to learning to play a musical instrument. I like that analogy.
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Prompt engineering for tech comm
Stay updated with best practices for technical writers. Includes an API documentation course for technical writers and engineers learning how to document APIs. The course includes sections on what an ...
https://idratherbewriting.com/ai/prompt-engineering.html
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I made a few updates to my API course -- updated the Stoplight getting started tutorial,
idratherbewriting.com/learnapidoc/...
, and the Redocly tutorial,
idratherbewriting.com/learnapidoc/...
. The tech landscape changes constantly -- keeping the course up-to-date is a real challenge.
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Getting started tutorial: Using Stoplight to create an OpenAPI specification document
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https://idratherbewriting.com/learnapidoc/pubapis_openapis_quickstart_stoplight.html
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