Coming soon: A sneak peek at the Blogathon 2026 blog series

Technical writing is a field full of possibilities, challenges, and opportunities to grow. Our contributors share their experiences navigating the profession, exploring new career paths, and advocating for documentation.

How to talk to leaders about your docs — Kyle Rollins

Discover ways to communicate the value of documentation to leadership and make a stronger case for the work technical writers do.

From Technical Writer to AI Evaluation Engineer: How looking at documentation analytics turned into a career shift — Jessie Mongeon

Follow a career journey from technical writing into AI evaluation engineering, sparked by an interest in documentation analytics.

How to decide whether you should enter, stay with, or exit technical writing — Payal K.B.

Explore the questions and considerations that can help you make thoughtful decisions about your future in technical writing.

What hand-coding a website taught about who I am as a technical writer — Maggie H.D.

Discover how hand-coding a personal website became an unexpected journey of professional self-discovery, reinforcing the importance of curiosity, challenging assumptions, and putting users first.

As AI continues to reshape technology, our contributors are asking important questions about the future of documentation and the people who create it.

Empathy in tech writing: The wow factor in the age of AI — Liz Kellebrew-Davies

Explore why empathy and the human touch continue to matter in technical communication as AI becomes part of our everyday workflows.

Human vs digital LLMs: What does our future look like? — Rachel Haas

Consider the relationship between human expertise and large language models, and what their evolution could mean for our future.

Why documentation templates are a guide for humans and a guardrail for AI — Derek Ardolf

Discover how documentation templates can support human writers while providing structure and guidance for AI-assisted content creation.

How I use AI to draft software docs — Mike Jang

Get a look at a practical approach to using AI during the software documentation drafting process.

Writing docs for people and agents — AbdulRaheem Olurode

Explore how documentation can evolve to serve both human readers and AI agents.

Death of the UI and the dawn of headless products — Zair Rogelio Kelley Ortiz

Explore how AI-driven, headless products are changing the way people interact with software and why technical documentation must evolve alongside them, from traditional documentation websites to MCP servers that make content accessible to AI agents.

Why the human-in-the-loop (HITL) is necessary — Stefanie Rosenberg

Examine the importance of human oversight and judgment in an increasingly AI-assisted world.

Writing for humans and AI agents: Rethinking documentation in the AI era — Vanessa Osuka

Explore the challenges and opportunities of creating documentation for audiences that include both people and AI agents.

Information architecture in the age of AI — Ayomide Yissa

Take a fresh look at information architecture and how AI may influence the ways we organize and deliver documentation.

AI got us to write the docs we kept putting off — Lana Novikova

Explore how AI coding agents are encouraging developers to document the knowledge they’ve long kept in their heads, and why documentation templates are becoming essential for teams working alongside AI.

What makes documentation truly effective? From better workflows to shared ownership, our contributors explore practical ways to improve the documentation experience.

Rethinking quality in documentation — Nicholas DeWald

Challenge traditional ideas about documentation quality and consider what makes documentation valuable to its readers.

The can() function: Why your authorization logic doesn’t belong in the component — Divyanshi Pathak

Learn how to centralize authorization logic, prevent inconsistent permission checks, and choose the right approach for your application, from role-based access control (RBAC) to attribute-based access control (ABAC) and CASL.

Who writes the docs when there is no technical writer? — Yash Israni

Explore how teams approach documentation when there isn’t a dedicated technical writer and what that means for collaboration.

When everyone writes the docs, who owns them? — Olha Vadiasova

Examine documentation ownership and accountability when writing becomes a shared responsibility across a team.

Technical documentation anti-patterns in docs-as-code repos — Ane Tröger

Discover common pitfalls in docs-as-code repositories and consider how teams can build more effective documentation workflows.

Watch a stranger use your quickstart and fix your docs faster — Christine Belzie

Learn how observing someone use your quickstart documentation can reveal opportunities to make it clearer and more effective.

Starting in January 2027, we’ll begin sharing the 20 blog posts from our very first blogathon right here on our blog!

From personal career journeys to practical documentation techniques and thought-provoking conversations about AI, each post brings a unique perspective shaped by our contributors' experiences and ideas.

We’re excited to celebrate their work, share their stories with the wider technical writing community, and spark new conversations about documentation.

Here’s our estimated publication schedule for the blogathon series:

The schedule above is an estimate and may shift as we edit and prepare these blog posts for publication.

We can’t wait to share these magical blog posts with you! In the meantime, here are a few ways to stay connected with The Good Docs Project and follow along with the Blogathon 2026 series:

We can’t wait to share these magical blog posts with you! In the meantime, here are a few ways to stay connected with The Good Docs Project and follow along with the Blogathon 2026 series: