Awesome Technical Writing

Technical writing is writing or drafting technical communication used in technical and occupational fields, such as computer hardware and software, engineering, chemistry, aeronautics, robotics, finance, medical, consumer electronics, biotechnology, and forestry. ~ Wikipedia

List inspired by the awesome list and awesome-jamstack list

Community

Courses

Resources

Videos

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.

Useful Tools

technical-writing-template - A sample template for writing a technical article.
HackMD - Real-time collaborate 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.
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 browser.
Microsoft Word - Goes beyond checking spelling and grammar, intelligent suggestions is also included 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 analyzes your text and flags any detections.

Conferences

Speaker Decks

Books

The Developer's Guide to Content Creation - by Stephanie Morillo
The Developer's Guide to Creating a Successful Blog - by Flavio Copes
Everybody Writes - by Ann Handley
Technical Writing for Dummies - by Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts
The Handbook of Technical Writing - by Gerald J. Alre
How To Write Usable User Documentation, 2nd Edition - by Edmond H. Weiss
Letting Go of the Words by Janice Redish
Docs Like Code by Anne Gentle
The Product is Docs by Christopher Gales
Every Page is Page One by Mark Baker
Modern Technical Writing: An Introduction to Software - by Andrew Etter

Style Guides

Technical Writers to follow

Name	Link to Blog	Blog Niche	Link to Twitter
Bolaji Ayodeji	https://blog.bolajiayodeji.com	Web Development, JAMstack, A11y	@iambolajiayo
Angie Jones	https://angiejones.tech	Test Automation, Java	@techgirl1908
Sarah Drasner	https://sarah.dev/writing	Web Development, Vuejs, SVGs	@sarah_edo
Prosper Otemuyiwa	https://medium.com/@unicodeveloper	All things Technical & Magical	@unicodeveloper
Ire Aderinokun	https://bitsofco.de	Frontend Development, 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, JamStack	@seancdavis29
Alvaro Montoro	https://dev.to/alvaromontoro	css, html	@alvaro_montoro

Contributing

Found an awesome technical writer, resource, article, blog, tool, video, speaker deck etc.? Please send me a pull request and follow the contributors guidelines.

Contributors ✨

_{Bolaji Ayodeji} 🖋 📖 🎨	_prachford 📖	_{Jude J Obiejesi} 📖	_{Patrick Rachford} 📖	_Didicodes 📖	_{browncrussell} 📖	_{Gareth Dwyer} 📖
_{Peter Thaleikis} 📖	_{Genesis Gabiola} 📖	_{Thomas Vaillant} 📖	_{Rostyslav Sipakov} 📖