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[!TIP] Technical writing is the writing of technical content used in technical and occupational fields, such as computer hardware and software, engineering, chemistry, aeronautics, robotics, finance, medical, biotechnology, etc. ~ Wikipedia

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Table of Contents

• Community
• Style Guides
• Courses
• Books
• Podcasts
• Conferences
• Speaker Decks
• Useful Tools
• Resources
• Videos
• Technical Writers to Follow

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Community

• Hashnode
• r/technicalwriting
• Google's Season of Docs
• freeCodeCamp News
• ycombinator News
• DEV
• Hackernoon
• Write the Docs
• The Good Docs Project
• LinkedIn Technical Writing Community
• Society for Technical Communication
• The Manuscript Academy

Style Guides

• Microsoft Manual of Style
• IBM Editorial Style Guide
• The Red Hat Style Guide
• Google Developer Documentation Style Guide
• Chicago Manual of Style
• University of Oxford Style Guide
• Dutch Style Guide

Courses

• Google Technical Writing Courses
• Tech Writing for Accessibility
• Writing Helpful Error Messages
• Technical Writing: Documentation on Software Projects
• Coding for Writers: Basic Programming
• Class Central Technical Writing
• Professional Technical Writing: Advance Your Writing Skills
• Technical Writing: Master Your Writing Career
• English 305: Advanced Technical Writing
• Technical Communication Techniques and Principles for Project Managers
• Documenting APIs: A Guide for Technical Writers
• Technical Writing Certification Course
• Tech: Write & Earn
• Technical Writing Tutorials for Software Testing

Books

• Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing by Jared Bhatti, Zach Corleissen, Jen Lambourne, David Nuñez, and Heidi Waterhouse.
• The Developer's Guide to Content Creation by Stephanie Morillo.
• The Developer's Guide to Creating a Successful Blog by Flavio Copes.
• Everybody Writes: Your New and Improved Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content by Ann Handley.
• Technical Writing for Dummies by Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts.
• The Handbook of Technical Writing by Gerald J. Alre, Walter E. Oliu, and Charles T. Brusaw.
• How To Write Usable User Documentation by Edmond H. Weiss.
• Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works by Janice Redish.
• Docs Like Code: Collaborate and Automate to Improve Technical Documentation by Anne Gentle.
• The Product is Docs: Writing Technical Documentation in a Product Development Group by Christopher Gales and Splunk Documentation Team.
• Every Page Is Page One: Topic-Based Writing for Technical Communication and the Web by Mark Baker.
• Modern Technical Writing: An Introduction to Software by Andrew Etter.
• Software Technical Writing: A Guidebook by James Gallagher.

Podcasts

• The Manuscript Podcast - The intersection of writing and the development of technology products.
• The Manuscript Academy Podcast - Interviews with agents and editors, how-to tips, and behind-the-scenes looks at the creation of the Academy.
• Write the Docs Podcast - The Write the Docs Podcast publishes discussion-style podcasts focusing on topics related to the Write the Docs community.
• The Not-Boring Tech Writer - The Not-Boring Tech Writer podcast introduces technical writers' skills used in the open data movement.

Conferences

• Write the Docs Conferences
• The LavaCon Content Strategy Conference
• API the Docs
• Technical Communication UK Metro Conference
• MadWorld
• WritersUA West Content Pro Conference

Speaker Decks

• Effective Documentation: The Key to Open Source Growth
• Technical Writing for Non-Writers
• Beyond The Editor: Automating Your Writing Process

Useful Tools

• Technical Writing Template - A sample template with guidelines for writing technical articles.
• Paid Community Writer Programs - A list of companies that have paid developer community writer programs.
• Who Pays Technical Writers? - A curated collection of active publishers, publications, and agencies that pay fair rates for high-quality technical content.
• Diátaxis Documentation System - A systematic approach to creating better documentation.
• HackMD - Real-time collaboration on technical documentation in Markdown.
• Dropbox Paper - A flexible workspace for collaborative document editing.
• Google Docs - Smart editing and styling tools to help you easily format text and paragraphs.
• Notion - The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis and databases.
• Notion AI - Leverage the limitless power of AI in any Notion page, write faster and augment your creativity.
• Grammarly - a writing assistant that goes deeper than grammar to offer you comprehensive writing feedback.
• Canva - A graphic design platform that allows you to create social media graphics and other visual content.
• TinyPNG - Smart PNG and JPEG image compression.
• Full Page Screen Capture - The simplest way to take a full page screenshot of your current browser window.
• Awesome Screenshot: Screen Video Recorder - Screen capture full-page screenshot and recorder for screencast.
• Readme Markdown Generator - CLI that generates beautiful README.md files.
• Capture to a Gif - Record content of pages to an animated GIF picture from the browser.
• Microsoft Word - Spelling, grammar, and intelligent suggestions to assist you across documents, email, and on the web.
• Log4brains - Docs-as-code knowledge base to manage Architecture Decision Records (ADR) for your project and publish them automatically as a static website.
• Antidote - The corrector analyses your text and flags any detections.
• LanguageTool - Open-source writing assistant, an alternative to Grammarly.
• HemingwayApp - Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear. Helps fix long & complex sentences.
• ChatGPT - A conversational chatbot that can generate human-like responses to natural language prompts.
• TextCraft - Add-in for Microsoft Word that seamlessly integrates essential AI tools, including text generation, proofreading, and more, directly into the user interface.
• adoc Studio - adoc Studio is an integrated writing environment for structured texts using AsciiDoc.
• Crosspost - Crosspost helps you write, import and publish articles to multiple platforms like Medium, Ghost, Hashnode, Dev.to and more at once. Write once, publish everywhere.
• Heroshot - Screenshot automation for documentation with a visual element picker and theme-aware output.
• EkLine - Documentation quality automation. Enforces style guides on PRs, validates links, flags outdated content, and helps draft new docs.
• Tablesmit - A minimalist table builder for analytical writing. Create, format, and export structured tables for technical documentation. Open source and free.
• Slopless - Deterministic textlint preset and CLI to flag AI-generated and padded English prose without calling an LLM.
• ai-slop-detect - Free Python CLI that flags AI-generated text patterns in markdown and prose (em-dashes, ChatGPT phrases, punctuation density, zero-width Unicode).
• Slop-Gate - CLI that flags AI writing-tells (em-dashes and filler words like "delve" and "seamless") in prose before you publish, locally or in CI.
• NRG - Multi-language README generator with widgets (CLI, Maven plugin, Java library).
• BeLikeNative Writing Assistant - Open-source writing quality analyzer with L1-aware grammar suggestions for non-native English speakers.
• unslop - A Claude Code plugin that removes AI writing patterns from text — tricolons, em-dash pileups, hedging stacks, sycophancy openers, stock vocabulary.
• Sourcey - Open source documentation platform for OpenAPI specs and markdown.
• Trupeer - AI-powered tool that transforms screen recordings into polished product videos and step-by-step documentation.
• JustBlogged - A no-setup blogging platform with built-in SEO, custom domains, and beautiful themes. Sign up, pick a name, and start publishing technical content in minutes.
• ProseScore - Free browser-based readability analyser with 8 formulas, sentiment analysis, keyword extraction, and SEO scoring. Privacy-first, runs entirely client-side.
• Patina - Audits and rewrites AI-sounding technical writing while preserving meaning, claims, numbers, polarity, and causation.
• Excel to Markdown - Convert Excel, CSV, or pasted tables into Markdown locally in the browser.
• MacMD Viewer - Native macOS Markdown viewer with Mermaid diagram rendering, QuickLook extension, and syntax highlighting for 190+ languages.

Resources

• The Ultimate Guide to Content Creation
• How to Create Great Content: A Step-by-Step Guide to Content Marketing That Delivers Real Results
• 9 Tips to Become the Best Content Creator in Your Industry
• Advice for Technical Writing
• Becoming a Technical Writer at Google
• 15 Tips to Improve Your Technical Writing
• How to Become a Technical Writer: A Beginner’s Guide
• How to Create Cover Images for Your Devblog Posts
• Introducing Google Season of Docs
• How to Start a Software YouTube Channel
• Starting a YouTube Channel as a Software Developer
• How to Create a Programming YouTube Channel - Lessons From 5 Years and 1 Million Subscribers
• Developers: The Why and How to Writing Technical Articles
• How to Improve the SEO of Your Devblog Articles
• How to Improve the SEO of Your Devblog
• Technical Writing: Why and How?
• Minimalist Approach to Technical Documentation
• A beginner’s guide to writing documentation
• Crash Course in APIs for Technical Writers
• Technical Writing: What and How?
• Write For Us: A List of Companies Who Pay Freelancers for Writing Tutorials
• Technical Writing Books: A Curated Collection of Books to Help You Be a Better Technical Writer
• Everything Technical Writing: Tips and Techniques that'll Help You Thrive as a Technical Writer in the Software Industry
• GitLab Technical Writing Fundamentals
• AutoHotkey scripts for writing technical documentation
• A Comprehensive Guide to Technical Writing

Videos

• Content Creation Strategies: How To Create Content Online
• How to start a Coding YouTube channel (with tips from a bunch of successful creators!)
• How To Start A Programming YouTube Channel With Coding Tutorials 360
• 15 Technical Writing Tips
• What is Technical Writing? | Writing Genre Fundamentals
• Meet Technical Writers at Google
• Technical Writing 101: Introduction to Technical Writing
• What do Technical Writers do? (Also, what is Technical Writing?)
• How to become a Technical Writer | Skills & Career Growth
• Writing technical documentation
• Write The Docs Podcast & Meetups
• Write the Readable README
• GitHub as a Landing Page
• Lessons Learned From Rebuilding a Developer Documentation Website
• A Balanced Diet of Documentation
• Write your Docs like Nobody Reads Them
• The Developer's Guide to Technical Writing
• How to write technical blog posts
• Technical Writing Portfolio
• How to Document APIs Using Postman

Some Technical Writers to follow

Name	Link to Blog	Blog Niche	Link to Twitter
Bolaji Ayodeji	https://blog.bolajiayodeji.com	Web/Data Engineering, JavaScript, Python, Machine Learning, and Ecommerce.	@iambolajiayo
Angie Jones	https://angiejones.tech	Test Automation and Java.	@techgirl1908
Sarah Drasner	https://sarah.dev/writing	Web Development, Vuejs, and SVGs.	@sarah_edo
Prosper Otemuyiwa	https://medium.com/@unicodeveloper	All things Technical and Magical.	@unicodeveloper
Ire Aderinokun	https://bitsofco.de	Frontend Development and JavaScript.	@ireaderinokun
Tom Johnson	https://idratherbewriting.com	Technical Writing and API lessons.	@tomjohnson
Anne Gentle	https://justwriteclick.com	Doc as Code.	@annegentle
Kayce Basques	https://kayce.basqu.es/blog	Dev tools and Documentation.	@kaycebasques
Tania Rascia	https://taniarascia.com	Modern JavaScript, Node.js, and development.	@taniarascia
SWYX	https://swyx.io/writing	Web Development, React and Tech.	@swyx
Sean C Davis	https://cobwwweb.com/	Web Development and Jamstack.	@seancdavis29
Alvaro Montoro	https://dev.to/alvaromontoro	CSS and HTML.	@alvaro_montoro
Linda Ikechukwu	https://everythingtechnicalwriting.com	Technical Writing and Developer Documentation.	@_mslinda
Amruta Ranade	https://www.youtube.com/c/AmrutaRanade	Technical Writing and Developer Documentation.	@AmrutaRanade

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