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Awesome Technical Writing

:books: A curated list of awesome resources: articles, books, videos, tools, podcasts about technical writing.

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Community

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r/technicalwriting

Google's Season of Docs

freeCodeCamp News

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ycombinator News

Where a technical audience finds and criticizes new products.

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DEV

Social Network for Developers.

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Hackernoon

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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

This style guide provides editorial guidelines for writing clear and consistent Google-related developer documentation.

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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.

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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.

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Dropbox Paper

A flexible workspace for collaborative document editing.

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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.

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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.

In 2 lists

Canva

A graphic design platform that allows you to create social media graphics and other visual content.

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TinyPNG

Smart PNG and JPEG image compression.

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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.

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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.

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Antidote

The corrector analyses your text and flags any detections.

LanguageTool

Open-source writing assistant, an alternative to Grammarly.

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HemingwayApp

Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear. Helps fix long & complex sentences.

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ChatGPT

A conversational chatbot that can generate human-like responses to natural language prompts.

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TextCraft

Add-in for Microsoft Word that seamlessly integrates essential AI tools, including text generation, proofreading, and more, directly into the user interface.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Sourcey

Open source documentation platform for OpenAPI specs and markdown.

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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.

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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.

In 2 lists

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

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

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Curated list of chatgpt prompts from the top-rated GPTs in the GPTs Store. Prompt Engineering, prompt attack & prompt protect. Advanced Prompt Engineering papers.

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