WTD Episode 16: An open-source Grammarly for tech docs?
Channel: Write The Docs Podcast & Meetups
Date: 2018-09-02

Recently, some WTD community members spent a few days at the Pronovix offices in Szeged, Hungary, trying to create a series of open-source testing tools. Specifically, they wanted to create a 'create a container deployable solution that can automatically check docs'. In more blunt terms, a kind of open-source Grammarly, but integrated into deploys and repositories and focused on tech docs. Host Chris Ward and our podcast guest Anett Pozsar from Szeged (pron. Seg-jed) Hungary also participated in the Test-the-Docs hackathon. Anett recently started in her role as a technical writer, so we ask her how she started, the challenges she faced, what she wants to learn, what she feels she’s missing etc. Finally, we transition from testing tools and linters to templates. Structure and templates can be especially helpful for guiding engineers in writing docs.