Write the Docs Atlantic 2024
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Conference opening | 20m | |
This is the conference launch: concrete logistics and results, not high-level promises. It states 10th virtual conference, attracts ~250 attendees from 29… | ||
| DevOps Your Docs | Lorna Jane Mitchell | 39m |
Requires text-based markup, Git for version history, and a tiny initial config committed to the repo; run the same checks locally and in continuous integration… | ||
| RAGs to Riches: How Our Content Affects Retrieval Augmented Generation | Manny Silva | 39m |
Claims that RAG cuts hallucinations and speeds doc drafting — a vector-based RAG plus templates and on‑the‑fly ingestion for uploads powers internal verba GPT… | ||
| Clicks Without Limits: Content Design for Everyone, Everywhere | Eric Zrinsky | 39m |
Company uses Aviva portal, runs an access scan and discovers 50% WCAG compliance then integrates the userway widget and raises score to nearly 97% compliance… | ||
| What Is a Template and How Can I Create One | Susan Armstrong | 23m |
Compares dozens of real manuals from a 1939 aircraft engine book through a 1946 Oldsmobile guide to a 1953 Autotronic Eye and Paradox 1992 to show what… | ||
| Unblocking your organization with diagrams-as-code | Diana Breza, Lena Larionova | 36m |
Kong implements Mermaid via Jaal plugin to turn text into diagrams that live next to docs, with a four-writer one-tooling-engineer team supporting 13 product… | ||
| GraphQL Docs: Beyond the Schema | Sarah Sanders | 35m |
Claims that schema alone is insufficient for real adoption and that embedding interactive tooling plus vetted examples fixes that with measurable results… | ||
| What's in a Word? Lessons from Localizing Kubernetes Documentation to Arabic | Ali Dowair | 39m |
A team of five to six contributors internationalizes the Kubernetes docs for Arabic, fixes broken RTL CSS fixes by untangling custom forks, chooses a… | ||
| How and Why Technical Writers should Lead Onboarding | Gideon Behrensmeyer | 38m |
Claim: technical writers lead onboarding by mapping the onboarding journey, extracting repeatable steps from recorded sessions (use Gong recordings or meeting… | ||
| Navigating the Maze | Gayathri Krishnaswamy, Annette Williams | 38m |
Claims a repeatable win: a structured documentation plan template that lists documents, priorities and links, tracked in Jira and drafted in Google Docs while… | ||
| Welcome to the World of Technical Writing: A Guide for Newcomers | Kruno Golubić | 38m |
Concrete takeaways and outcomes not cheerleading: built a mangra Docker extension plus blog posts and a maintained GitHub repo; documentation site work… | ||
| From morphemes to manuscripts: how linguistics can make you a better writer | Chloe Guttmann | 41m |
Explains concrete edits and rules that improve clarity: replace vague timing with data uploads within 24 hours, swap ambiguous nouns for verbs as in accounts… | ||
| Conference closing | 10m | |
Platform migration to Veness then Hopin causes a handful of technical hiccups — an obscure permission system briefly locks out staff but gets fixed before… | ||
| LT Abi Sutherland | Abi Sutherland | 04m |
Slide deck starts as a joke and becomes a method: document the current system not the imagined five‑option future or the obsolete system past. Claim: write… | ||
| LT Ariel Kaiser | Ariel Kaiser | 03m |
Tells a concrete failure: a whole pallet of milk goes down a ramp, the pallet jack wasn’t handled and product spills everywhere. Immediate steps that actually… | ||
| LT Arnold | Arnold | 05m |
Arnold is a fostered senior dog estimated at 24 years old and once posted missing for about a year, now living in Florida after transfer from Animal Protective… | ||
| LT Dennis Dawson | Dennis Dawson | 05m |
Argues that minimal slides win: one idea per slide, titles as full sentences, no fonts under 18pt, and pairing a single clear image with a short sentence… | ||
| LT Erich Studer | Erich Studer | 04m |
Claims that embedding a simple text diagram language into docs lets developers treat docs like code and actually contribute. Shows VS Code editing a file, a… | ||
| LT Erin White | Erin White | 05m |
Practical steps for crafting believable serial‑killer villains: create a personality, use named tools like personality tests and the DSM for diagnoses, and… | ||
| LT James Baross | James Baross | 05m |
Explains how a pin‑tumbler lock actually works with clear diagrams and a live demo that replicates a key by manipulating pins to the shear line, showing… | ||
| LT Kenzie Woodbridge | Kenzie Woodbridge | 05m |
Claims that “trying harder” is a brittle response to scarcity and names the mechanism: substitution of effort for time with concrete examples — deadlines… | ||
| LT Maggie H | Maggie H | 05m |
Discovery that there are approximately 200 common mosses in the Northeast and appalache mountains changes decision making: choose the exact species, note where… | ||
| LT Cynthia Harvey | Cynthia Harvey | 05m |
Clear guidance and numbers not fluff Freelancing requires prior full time technical writing experience not as a shortcut no freelancing without full-time… | ||
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