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Each Early Access release is designed to make writing documentation easier and more enjoyable. This update is based on your feedback and focuses on improving code blocks, but there is more! Thank you all for sharing your ideas. It’s a pleasure to keep improving our product for you. Code samples…

In today's fast-paced development environment, effective API documentation is not just a nice-to-have, but a necessity. This blog post explores how understanding pattern recognition and learning styles can revolutionize the way we create API documentation. By examining the different types of knowledge present in API references and recognizing diverse developer learning strategies, we can create documentation that is not only informative but also engaging and intuitive.

DSL? What DSL?The essence of the Kotlin DSLDemonstrationThree key strengths of our approachSeparation of ConcernsDocs-as-Code on a whole new levelExtensibilityWhy Kotlin?Do I need to be a coder to use the Kotlin DSL?Conclusion This material was initially presented at the API The Docs Conference i…

It was hard to choose which tech writing conference to go to this year. Our team decided to spend the 2023 budget on these 7 conferences. The first one is over! Let us share our experience – biased maybe, but hopefully useful to those who plan to attend next year. Audience: There's a whole world …

To stay ahead of the curve, the Writerside team attends various events to discuss new trends, technologies, and best practices for authoring and publishing technical content. Come meet us, get a quick demo of our product, and discuss the latest developments in writing and publishing docs-as-code.

One day you write some code, commit, push, and then receive a comment on the pull request: “Looks good. Oh, but you misspelled this word in a class name". Now you have to change the pull request just because of the typo. Annoying and time-consuming, isn't it? How IntelliJ IDEA spellchecks code …

A writing style guide is a set of rules and agreements for everyone involved in writing or editing documentation in a company. Usually, a style guide prescribes using certain words, expressions, terms, and punctuation. It can sometimes go even beyond that and cover content architecture or UI texts. …

When you ask someone what’s wrong with your documentation, the top 3 answers will be: no one reads it, it is misleading, and it is outdated. In this post, we will discuss how to keep your documentation up to date. Hey, doc! Why so outdated? Documentation is not source code. For code, you can w…