From Oil Rigs to Award Nominations: Making Complex Things Clear
The utterly non-linear journey of a person who somehow went from documenting oil drilling APIs to being nominated for Adobe awards. Featuring: questionable career choices, accidental expertise, and why good documentation is basically magic.
Why Documentation Is So Hard (And What 30 Years of Failures Taught Me)
After three decades of writing documentation that ranged from terrible to occasionally helpful, I've learned something: we're all fighting the same battles against time, scope, and complexity. Here's what those struggles taught me about making docs that actually work.
Why Astro Changed Everything (And Why Your Site is Probably Too Slow)
The brutally honest story of how I went from framework-hopping chaos to building lightning-fast sites that actually make visitors happy. Spoiler: it involves zero JavaScript by default and a lot less suffering.