Documentation Best Practices
Description: Proven documentation best practices for developers and technical writers. Frameworks, structures, and examples for docs that actually get read and maintained.
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5 postsHow to write API documentation developers actually use
Most API documentation fails the same way: it describes endpoints instead of helping someone ship. A practical guide to structuring API docs — the five page types every API needs, what belongs on a reference page, and how to write for the AI agents that read your docs as often as humans do.
How to keep your documentation up to date
Stale docs are the most common documentation problem and the easiest to ignore. Six patterns that keep documentation fresh without doubling the team that writes it.
Documentation without lock-in: how to keep your content portable
If your docs live inside a proprietary editor, you don't own them — you rent access to them. Here's what real portability looks like: Markdown in a Git repo you control, a build you can run yourself, and the right to walk away without a migration project.
How to track AI bot traffic on your documentation site
GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and a long tail of agents are reading your docs every day. A practical guide to spotting them in your logs, measuring what they actually do, and fixing the gaps before they ship into a developer's editor.
How to write documentation that AI agents can actually use
AI assistants now read your docs more often than humans do. A practical guide to the structure, formatting, and metadata patterns that make documentation parseable, retrievable, and citable by LLMs.