What r/technicalwriting is talking about this week

I have been out of work since April. I'm finding absolutely no traction despite a broad portfolio (mostly software, but a little bit of telecom and civil engineering) and ten years of experience,...

Just found out that my company has tied AI into the source code of our software suite and no longer need a technical writer to write user guided documentation. The docs are soo accurate, they can...

I don’t need to go in detail about how bleak this career has felt over the last few years. Does anyone have any positive stories or feelings about where things are headed in terms of layoff...

I can say that the way you act in this sub has turned me off of at least 3-4 of you. I don't think we need some kind of moderation, but you guys really need to think more carefully about engaging...

Hi all. During the month of October, I've had 3 interviews with 3 different aerospace/defense companies. One of them was a Junior tech writer role. So me having 4 years of tech writing experience...

Context: I started a new job at a small manufacturing company (50-100 ppl) recently and my main responsibilities will be writing new SOPs, updating/creating the user manuals for our products, and...

Technical writers update long documents all the time. Like handbooks, policies and user guides. But readers often miss the changes or have to reread everything. Imagine readers could follow just...

I'm looking for recommendations for software to build a modular content system. Basically envisioning a string of choices starting with a user's role that will then pull and serve discrete chunks...

I manage our end user documentation with Madcap Flare. Previously we had a public/private site using wiki.js for more technical information. We recently migrated most of the public portion of that...

I had just started practising technical writing and tried rewriting one task from a battery manual. We'd downloaded the Jackery manual while looking at storage for our flat, so I used that. My...