I’m going to be spending the next two weeks of my life writing #TechnicalDocumentation and summaries for a project I’ve been working on since April.

The adult in me likes the structure documentation brings and working towards the conclusion of a satisfying project.

The kid in me is screaming that I’d rather be outdoors or eating a bowl of frosted mini-wheats.

(Digital) #whiteboarding can help grow an idea. But don't mistake it for #TechnicalDocumentation, the real foundation of a durable product. No one will look at that #Miro board once the meeting is over!

"People use Post-its to […] make meetings more collaborative […] Instead, images of such sessions became products themselves. […] Their meaning doesn’t come from what is written, but from its having been written across colorful rectangles and squares."

#designthinking

https://www.wired.com/story/beware-the-digital-whiteboard/

Ulrike Parson will give an introduction to the iiRDS standard at tekom Danmark.

The free webinar takes place on April 18, 2023 from 3.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m. @tekomdanmark

Ses vi i Danmark?

Register here: https://lnkd.in/eMCWxppd

#iirds #tekom #tekomdanmark #tekomdenmark #intelligentinformation #smartcontent #metadata #technicalcommunication #technicaldocumentation

#TechnicalDocumentation

Release notes are not documentation. They are the opposite of documentation. At their best, they say "we got this wrong and have now fixed it." At their worst, they say "This is too trivial or we are too lazy to fit this into the documentation."

💡 Was taugt eine Künstliche Intelligenz wie ChatGPT für die technische Dokumentation und was bedeutet sie für unseren Beruf als Technische Redakteur:innen? Ulrike Parson ist es gelungen ist, trotz des Andrangs auf ChatGPT ein paar Fragen an die KI loszuwerden. Im Blogartikel fasst sie erste Eindrücke und Rechercheergebnisse zusammen.

https://www.parson-europe.com/de/blog/kuenstliche-intelligenz-chatgpt-technische-dokumentation

#ChatGPT #KI #AI #künstlicheintelligenz #artificialintelligence #technischedokumentation #technicaldocumentation

2022 war ein ereignisreiches Jahr – spannende Transformationsprojekte bei Kunden, Mitarbeit in Forschungsprojekten und Einarbeitung neuer Kolleg:innen. In unserem Jahresrückblick erfahren Sie mehr darüber, was uns 2022 beruflich bewegt hat.

https://www.parson-europe.com/de/unternehmen#meilensteine

#wecreateknowledge #technicaldocumentation #technicalwriting #technischekommunikation #arbeitenbeiparson

Priority of Knowledge Transfer =

Importance of Knowledge + Availability of Knowledge + Frequency of Knowledge

#KnowledgeTransfer #Documentation #Docs #WriteTheDocs #TechnicalDocumentation

Draw a shape onto the canvas with your mouse or pen and let #Shapecatcher find the most similar #unicode characters.

Currently, there are 11817 unicode character glyphs in the database.

http://shapecatcher.com/

#CharacterRecognition #AuthoringTools #TechnicalDocumentation

https://httpwg.org/ is a neat website for reading HTTP specifications. It uses a nice easy on the eyes reading font, has an index with links in between sections and *colors* 🎨

Does anyone know of any other website that acts a modern rfc-editor.org for RFCs? #http #rfc #documentation #tech #technicaldocumentation #readinghelps

As long as the #Documentation isn't sufficiently detailed, folks are going to have a hard time taking #Mastodon seriously.

But docs are not a two-person effort. It's not just up to Eugen to make them better. If you are a #TechnicalWriter and you're not afraid of a little #GitHub , contribute, especially when you see that something is unclear!

Mastodon is so far a labor of love. Let's help keep it growing.

#OpenSource #Contributing #Volunteer #TechnicalWriting #TechnicalDocumentation

As long as the #Documentation isn't sufficiently detailed, folks are going to have a hard time taking #Mastodon seriously.

But docs are not a two-person effort. It's not just up to Eugen to make them better. If you are a #TechnicalWriter and you're not afraid of a little #GitHub , contribute, especially when you see that something is unclear!

Mastodon is so far a labor of love. Let's help keep it growing.

#OpenSource #Contributing #Volunteer #TechnicalWriting #TechnicalDocumentation

🟦 Diátaxis
by Daniele Procida
@evildmp / @EvilDMP
A systematic framework for technical documentation authoring.
#TechnicalDocumentation #TechnicalDocumentationAuthoring #AuthoringDocuments

https://diataxis.fr/

I'm obsessed with good #documentation and the Routinator user manual on #ReadTheDocs is my pride and joy.

We worked very hard to seamlessly integrate the manual page into it as well, allowing us to automatically link command line options, but we also wanted it to be the canonical source for building the the manpage with rst2man. This saves us from keeping content in sync and messing with troff(1).

https://github.com/NLnetLabs/routinator/blob/main/doc/manual/source/manual-page.rst

#WriteTheDocs #TechnicalWriting #TechnicalDocumentation #OpenSource

Shameless brag: yesterday I submitted two pull requests for changes to #Mastodon #Documentation, and @Gargron kindly approved and merged!

The changes clarify what you need to do to change #Privacy at the default or per-post level. You can see the updates at the links below.

#TechnicalDocumentation #OnlineHelp #TechnicalWriting

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/posting/#privacy

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/preferences/#posting

To help make connections: name 5-7 things that interest you, but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. 

Then, boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same.
(h/t @GregStolze)

#livemusic
#SF
#JamesJoyce
#technicaldocumentation
#nanowrimo
#DavidBowie