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Awesome Technical Writing

This list is inspired by the awesome and awesome-jamstack lists.

[!TIP] Technical writing is the writing of technical content used in technical and occupational fields, such as computer hardware and software, engineering, chemistry, aeronautics, robotics, finance, medical, biotechnology, etc. ~ Wikipedia

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Technical Writers to Follow

Community

Style Guides

Courses

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.

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

Speaker Decks

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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Antidote - The corrector analyses your text and flags any detections.
LanguageTool - Open-source writing assistant, an alternative to Grammarly.
HemingwayApp - Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear. Helps fix long & complex sentences.
ChatGPT - A conversational chatbot that can generate human-like responses to natural language prompts.
TextCraft - Add-in for Microsoft Word that seamlessly integrates essential AI tools, including text generation, proofreading, and more, directly into the user interface.
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.
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.
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.
Sourcey - Open source documentation platform for OpenAPI specs and markdown.
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.
Excel to Markdown - Convert Excel, CSV, or pasted tables into Markdown locally in the browser.

Resources

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Some Technical Writers to follow

Name	Link to Blog	Blog Niche	Link to Twitter
Bolaji Ayodeji	https://blog.bolajiayodeji.com	Web/Data Engineering, JavaScript, Python, Machine Learning, and Ecommerce.	@iambolajiayo
Angie Jones	https://angiejones.tech	Test Automation and Java.	@techgirl1908
Sarah Drasner	https://sarah.dev/writing	Web Development, Vuejs, and SVGs.	@sarah_edo
Prosper Otemuyiwa	https://medium.com/@unicodeveloper	All things Technical and Magical.	@unicodeveloper
Ire Aderinokun	https://bitsofco.de	Frontend Development and 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 and Jamstack.	@seancdavis29
Alvaro Montoro	https://dev.to/alvaromontoro	CSS and HTML.	@alvaro_montoro
Linda Ikechukwu	https://everythingtechnicalwriting.com	Technical Writing and Developer Documentation.	@_mslinda
Amruta Ranade	https://www.youtube.com/c/AmrutaRanade	Technical Writing and Developer Documentation.	@AmrutaRanade

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