> Technical writers are better positioned for this moment than most people in the industry realize — including many technical writers themselves.

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The state of agent traffic in documentation (March 2026) An analysis of 30 days of Mintlify documentation traffic, broken down by AI agents, browsers, and other sources.

got to dive into the Cloudflare data and see just who/what is coming to docs sites nowadays

www.mintlify.com/blog/state-o...

Excited for this! I was at a talk Adam gave last year and learned a ton

Bridging two JSX runtimes: How we solved Astro's React children problem How Mintlify solved a fundamental JSX runtime mismatch to make compound React components work inside Astro's MDX pipeline.

this was a fun one to ride along with: www.mintlify.com/blog/astro-r...

pretty much just communicate in bufo emojis at this point

Punch, the viral lonely monkey, has now been hugged and groomed by an adult monkey for the first time

Zoo staff previously gave him a plushie for comfort when he struggled to fit in with other macaques

how do I explain farmville notifications to my zoomer coworkers?

Adding endpoints - When we add a new endpoint, I update our OpenAPI spec. Since this is such a structured format, it's a great use case for agentic writing. I can link to the PR that adds an endpoint and tell it which spec it belongs in. Then I just review and edit. Preferred agent: Claude Code. 5/

Changelog generation - I have a weekly workflow to review bug fixes and shipped PRs for the changelog. I sync with other content leads so that we have a cohesive narrative, but an agent reviewing PRs saves me from confirming what shipped. Preferred agent: Mintlify to kick off a PR via Slack DM. 4/

Capture knowledge from Slack - Slack is better than email but it's so ephemeral and too easy to leave a drive by idea. Agents let me make tickets or go straight from Slack to a PR. Preferred agent: Linear for creating tickets. Mintlify for creating a docs PR in Slack. 3/

Main agentic workflows
* Restructuring content - I've done one manual content restructure recently and will never do another. It's easy to give an agent a list and let it move files and set up redirects. Preferred agent: Claude Code since I want to do this work in my IDE and build a local preview 2/

was chatting with the growth marketer at work about www-cdn.anthropic.com/58284b19e702... since we're both teams of one. And for him, his exact job title is mentioned. Mine isn't, but got me thinking 1/5

The AI Vampire This was an unusually hard post to write, because it flies in the face of everything else going on.

steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampi...

[PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib This PR addresses issue #31130 by replacing specific safe occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for better performance. IMPORTANT: This is a more targeted fix than originally proposed. ...

entertaining to watch the clanker spin out. always got to remember there's a people behind the bots github.com/matplotlib/m...

em dash gets all the attention, but I just want to keep using lists of three things without people getting worked up thinking I'm a bot now

Sustainable software manifesto The systems we build are never neutral. They can magnify harm or support a just and sustainable society. How we build today shapes tomorrow’s possibilities.

Recently came across a post from Stefano Romanelli
sharing the sustainablemanifesto.org

Very interested to see what momentum this project can build

do you say thank you to Claude Code?

MCP, Skills, and Agents If you're not caught up on the current hypewave, coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor have latched onto skills recently. Like with all of these waves, everyone has immediately proclaimed they sol...

Good explanation of each feature cra.mr/mcp-skills-a...

Docs observability, or measuring docs inside a product-docs system As technical writers we want to know if the docs we’re writing are accomplishing their goals. In other words, we want to know how good are docs relative to the business goals they’re aiming to support...

I keep coming back to this post a few times a year passo.uno/docs-observa...

Working at two different companies now, it's interesting to see what different stakeholders want to measure, what can be measured, and what matters.

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