Our guests talk about their insights and experience as documentarians. We bring advice from behind open and closed developer portals, ideas on what new learnings you can aim for, and recent experiments from the field of API documentation.
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Streamline release notes: balance AI and human oversight (00:35:10)
Senior technical writers Gareth Brinn and Lydia Pedersen talk about using GPTs and n8n to automate release notes: scripting, prompt engineering, and synthesizing data from Jira and GitHub. Next plans ...
API thought leader Kevin Swiber and Pronovix CEO Kristof Van Tomme join the podcast to explore the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and the emerging governance challenges it presents to API strategy. We d...
State of the Docs 2025: Insights from GitBook - Discussion with Addison Schultz (00:28:28)
We discuss findings from GitBook's "State of the Docs" report (2025), for example that 90% view documentation as crucial for purchases, yet 40% of those interviewed don't track its performance. We tal...
How AI Impacts Technical Writing Workflows - Discussion with Anila Zaidi and Marco Spinello (00:56:07)
Welcome back to the A(P)I The Docs podcast! We’re opening this new chapter with an absolute treat of an episode in which Anila Zaidi, Staff Technical Writer at Squarespace, and Marco Spinello, Senior ...
Documentation by humans for humans - Discussion with Polina Zaichkina and Max Clayton Clowes (00:43:21)
How do you get people on board when you shift to a new tool or a new approach? Even if the value proposition is clear, it might be a challenge to create a practice out of the change.
In this episode ...
From Inconsistent to Award-winning Docs - Conversation with Naomi Pentrel & Andrew Feierabend (00:50:38)
In this episode, Naomi Pentrel and Andrew Feierabend share their journey of revamping Viam’s robotics APIs documentation. They discuss the benefits of sitting down with actual users in well-structured...
The Secret Sauce of Developer Programs: A Conversation with Byrne Reese (00:56:46)
Byrne Reese had the opportunity to build a number of developer programs over the years. In this episode, he explains his unique Developer Pyramid framework which he uses as a guide to build a successf...
Teaching and Learning Git - Discussion with Anna Skoulikari (00:27:30)
When it comes to learning Git, it can be daunting to navigate the plethora of learning resources out there. Recognising the need for a visually engaging all-levels experience, Anna Skoulikari (JetBrai...
Install ways to check on the overall health of the portal - Conversation with Rachel Lee Nabors (00:25:39)
"Key results are the things you're going to do to move that number. Here's the thing where most people spin out. There should be a break mechanism on the things that you're doing […] a culture of expe...
React.dev and storyboarding with Rachel Lee Nabors (00:23:37)
"You can always tell when it's a novice writer or a writer and an artist who are in bad relation because there will be blocks of text everywhere explaining how the character is feeling […] There's a d...
On the management track - conversation with Claire Waters (00:44:35)
Drawing from her role as a wayfinder, Claire Waters (Senior Manager – Product Content Experience, Cloudflare) shares her team’s using the COIN methodology for embracing AI tools as a team, and how the...
The zen of resilience - Discussion with Dan Grabski (00:49:23)
You need docs and headspace when a well-oiled system inevitably throws a flat tire. With Dan Grabski we talked from car racing through tech execs mediating at Burning Man, forest fire incident managem...
Writing with humans in mind - Discussion with Ryan Young (00:36:02)
Technical writers walk a tricky tightrope between delivering accurate technical information and making it comprehensible for a wide range of users with varying levels of technical experience. In this ...
DevPortal Awards Jury Interview - Special Edition Part 4 (00:16:34)
How can one make their devportal accessible and useful at the same time? What can devportal owners do to support inclusive design? We were honored to ask Susanna Laurin (Certified Professional in Acce...
DevPortal Awards Jury Interview - Special Edition Part 3 (00:22:10)
The API The Docs Podcast brings you a Special Edition series with insights from the 2023 DevPortal Awards.
Each year, the DevPortal Awards seeks the most outstanding solutions with the help of exper...
DevPortal Awards Jury Interview - Special Edition Part 2 (00:28:09)
The API The Docs Podcast brings you a Special Edition series with insights from the 2023 DevPortal Awards.
Each year, the DevPortal Awards seeks the most outstanding solutions with the help of exper...
DevPortal Awards Jury Interview - Special Edition Part 1 (00:18:40)
The API The Docs Podcast brings you a Special Edition series with insights from the 2023 DevPortal Awards.
Each year, the DevPortal Awards seeks the most outstanding solutions with the help of exper...
Harnessing the power of customer success - Discussion with Charlie Edwards (00:36:32)
Connected to both customers and internal teams, customer success is a powerful source of valuable information throughout the entire feedback loop. In this episode, Charlie Edwards (Customer Success Ma...
Building empathy with a beginner’s mindset - Discussion with Adrienne Braganza Tacke (00:49:46)
Adopting a beginner’s mindset allows you to explore familiar concepts through a lens of curiosity and openness. But how does that translate to documentation? In this episode, Adrienne Braganza Tacke (...
Docs anthropology, and how to make content useful for the future - conversation with Portia Burton (00:27:22)
How does a biological anthropologist become a professional docs auditor? Portia Burton, founder of DocumentWrite, narrates her meandering journey from biological anthropology to ESL China, through blo...
Demystifying DevRel and Tech Writing - Discussion with Kruno Golubic and Katarina Šupe (00:53:52)
Technical writing and developer relations are relatively new areas, and they have both grown out of a need for these specific skill sets. However, for newcomers in the IT landscape, it might take a wh...
Fostering an API-first culture in a startup environment - Discussion with Alex Akimov and Helen Kosova (00:42:54)
From rapid changes to learning on the fly, startups face unique challenges that require creative solutions. Alex Akimov (Head of API Platform at Monite) and Helen Kosova (API Technical Writer at Monit...
Empowered community through user-centered design - Discussion with Anthony Pichardo (00:23:51)
With Anthony Pichardo, product manager at Visa Developer Platform, on the value of user-centered design and building non-zero sum environments where everyone wins. Community is not just an afterthough...
Unified documentation hubs versus documentation islands - Discussion with Christoph Weber and Kristof Van Tomme (00:41:00)
We explore how developer documentation hubs enable a unified information architecture, at least outwards: our guests Christoph Weber (Pronovix) and Kristof Van Tomme (Pronovix) talk about the nuanced,...
Why convert from markdown to confluence? - Interview with Paula Cristina Vaz (00:23:46)
Developers are the ones who know their APIs best, but they need an easy documentation process that wouldn’t be too different from the coding lifecycle to produce the technical documentation at scale. ...
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