Have you read these?

While I’m digging into toolchain research, here are some useful articles that I’ve been meaning to share from my public site.

• Minimum viable documentation. What is it, and how can it help you to make better API docs?

• The how-to article. An indispensable staple of technical writing. Are you getting everything you can out of how-to articles?

• The quickstart article. How to onboard readers painlessly.

• The product overview. It’s often overlooked, but important enough that a small number of readers won’t adopt your product without it.

• API reference docs: Are yours complete? Completeness of the documentation is a big part of the developer experience. Here' are some guidelines.

• What’s missing from your Swagger docs? How specifically to apply the completeness guidelines to a swagger spec.

• Resources and links. A page for technical writers in general and API writers in particular.

Coming soon: A deep dive into tool chains

• Why is everyone planning to change tools?

• Lessons learned about the docs-as-code approach.

• How do tool gurus select the right tool for a project?

• And more.