Write the Docs Podcast

The Write the Docs Podcast publishes discussion-style podcasts focusing on topics related to the Write the Docs community.

Recent Podcasts

2021

• WTD Episode 35: Docs for Developers book, with Jared Bhatti and Zachary Sarah Corleissen (Oct 31, 2021)
• WTD Episode 34: Adding personality to documentation, with Fabrizio Ferri (Jun 26, 2021)
• WTD Episode 33: Simplified user interfaces, with Anton Bollen (Jan 17, 2021)

2020

• WTD Episode 32: Self-publishing and AsciiDoc, with Mehmed Pasic (Nov 1, 2020)
• WTD Episode 31: Strategies for site search, with Peter Levan (Sep 10, 2020)
• WTD Episode 30: Documentation templates, with Juan Lara (Jul 19, 2020)
• WTD Episode 29: Salary Survey results and WFH tips, with Eric Holscher (Apr 12, 2020)
• WTD Episode 28: UX writing - Starting and Scaling at your Company, Berlin WTD meetup (Mar 17, 2020)
• WTD Episode 27: Starting a doc group/process when you're the first (Feb 20, 2020)

2019

• WTD Episode 26: Tech Writing and Reddit, with Alan Bowman (Dec 31, 2019)
• WTD Episode 25: Researching how developers use API docs, with Andrew Head (Oct 20, 2019)
• WTD Episode 24: Conference chatter and the Australian scene, with Swapnil Ogale (Sep 22, 2019)
• WTD Episode 23: How to write inclusive tech documentation, by Lucie Le Naour (Aug 19, 2019)
• WTD Episode 22: Managing multiple doc projects across Git repositories, with Giles Gaskell (Jul 28, 2019)
• WTD Episode 21: On career growth, leadership, and mentoring in tech writing, with Becky Todd (Mar 31, 2019)
• WTD Episode 20: Minimum requirements for good tech docs, with Matt Reiner (Mar 2, 2019)
• WTD Episode 19: Static site generators, with Jessica Parsons (Jan 31, 2019)

2018

• WTD Episode 18: Recap and thoughts on Write the Docs Australia 2018 (Nov 25, 2018)
• WTD Episode 17: Structured writing — reasons and approaches (Oct 22, 2018)
• WTD Episode 16: An open-source Grammarly for tech docs? (Sep 5, 2018)
• WTD Episode 15: User research, tech writer stereotypes, and conversations (Jul 22, 2018)
• WTD Episode 14: Humanizing your documentation (Mar 22, 2018)
• WTD Episode 13: Postman for API development and docs — Interview with Postman Founder (Jan 22, 2018)

2017

• WTD Episode 12: Founding ideas behind Write the Docs (Dec 13, 2017)
• WTD Episode 11: Combining Forces for Documentation Sources -- Exploring the Mozilla Developer Network's Web Docs project (Nov 27, 2017)
• WTD Episode 10: What's going on in our lives as documentarians and product owners (Oct 10, 2017)
• WTD Episode 9: Chatbots in Documentation (Sep 19, 2017)
• WTD Episode 8: Stack Overflow's Documentation Failure and Open Source Challenges (Aug 22, 2017)
• WTD Episode 7: Let the robots do the work (Jul 3, 2017)
• WTD Episode 6: Metadata and UI copy (Jun 6, 2017)
• WTD Episode 5: Where do we belong? (Apr 30, 2017)
• WTD Episode 4: Continuous Integration and Docs like Code (Mar 5, 2017)
• WTD Episode 3: Technical writing trends for 2017 (Jan 25, 2017)

2016

• WTD Episode 2: Findability -- helping users find what they're looking for (Dec 18, 2016)
• WTD Episode 1: This week in tech comm (Nov 19, 2016)