Dachary Carey

As documentarians, our role doesn't stop at creating new documentation.

When I interviewed to join the Developer Education team at MongoDB, one thing really stood out to me: they maintain their documentation code examples in unit test suites.

Experienced documentation writers know that grammar isn't the only important aspect of documentation.

Why are we here?

Hey!

I've had a handful of iOS app ideas in the past few years that I could never quite figure out how to turn into reality.

I've been playing around with different versions of the realm-cli for some documentation projects.

Docs as code is a technical documentation movement to use the same tools that developers use in the documentation workflow.

A little over a year ago, I wrote here about how I was learning Swift because there are a couple of apps I want to write.

Or why I love good coffee, and how you can learn to love it, too.

In the past few years, I've gradually trimmed down my social media exposure.

I've been working remotely since 2007.

Or that time I accidentally body-surfed a Class V rapid on the Penobscot River in Maine.

A younger, more innocent me bought a 13" mid-2014 MacBook Pro on closeout in early 2015.

In my recent technical writing job search and interviewing process, I've encountered a lot of discussion around tooling.

Someone in the Write the Docs Slack was asking about things to consider as she pondered transitioning to a freelance/contract technical writing career, and I have Thoughts to share: Benefits and administrative overhead Freelance/contract typically means 1…

There are a couple of apps I've been wanting to write, so the time has come to learn to code!

I'm applying for jobs again, which brings me once again to the Hell that is "provide links to your work."

At the beginning of August, I said farewell to the company where I've been contracting for the past two years.

I was chatting with someone the other day, and caught myself using "guys" - as in, "you guys" - when talking with a woman about her relationship with her wife.

Silly thing, I know... but I don't have business cards anymore.

If you know me at all, you know I'm a devoted coffee snob.

After some of the conversations I've seen lately about backup strategies, I have been reminded that I'm not on my A-game when it comes to backing up my digital assets.

Some days, being a writer is hard.

I went to see the Beauty and the Beast live action movie over the weekend.