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tcworld

Speaking
8 November 2022, Stuttgart, Germany

A guide to OBS for Tech Communication

Video consumption of information was already increasingly popular, and in the past year, video consumption and usage has accelerated. There's an increasing amount of video versions of blog posts, livestreaming of tutorials, online office hours, and much more.

heapcon

Speaking
3 November 2022, Belgrade, Serbia

A short guide to creating interactive fiction

Interactive fiction (IF) occupies a curious middle ground between technical writing, programming, and creative writing. This presentation takes a look at the history of IF games, the tools used to create them across the decades, and how you can use your programming skills to tell stories.
30 September 2022, Lviv, Ukraine
Chris is back to see what Ukrainian entrepreneurs are working on.

OSCAL

Speaking
18 June 2022, Tirana, Albania

A guide to OBS for Tech Communication

Video consumption of information was already increasingly popular, and in the past year, video consumption and usage has accelerated. There's an increasing amount of video versions of blog posts, livestreaming of tutorials, online office hours, and much more.

Soap! Conf

Speaking
1 June 2022, Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, Krakow

A guide to OBS for Tech Communication

Video consumption of information was already increasingly popular, and in the past year, video consumption and usage has accelerated. There's an increasing amount of video versions of blog posts, livestreaming of tutorials, online office hours, and much more.
17 October 2021, online

Reducing Negative and Biased Language in Documentation

The discussions on what constitutes negative, biased, and diverse language continue in many open source communities, often sparking heated, and strongly-opinionated debate. But if you have decided what language you want to increase, decrease, or change in your community, how do you enforce and track those changes? In this presentation I look at how to use the open source language linter tool, Vale, to check text (in supported locations and formats) for rules and styles you define. I start with showing how to setup and configure the tool, and then how to use existing rule sets, or create your own. Finally I show how you can track progress during initial language overhauls, and how to track violations moving forward.

Fosdem 2021

Speaking
27 February 2021, Online

Tool the Docs room

This year at Fosdem I'm helping organise the Documentation tooling developer room, so drop on by.

APIDays

Speaking
7 December 2020, online

Automate your APIs to perfection

API documentation can originate from many sources, and take many forms, so how do you ensure that the content is accurate and crucially, works? In this presentation Chris looks at options for testing, standardising, and checking your API documentation is as good as your API.
3 December 2020, online

An introduction to developer experience, and the role of a documentarian

User experience has been a fundamental part of modern products for some time, but for tools aimed at developers, there is a growing focus on "developer experience" (DX, DevEx). Documentation is a key component of developer experience. As people with an eye on making sense out of technical complexity, documentarians should feel qualified and empowered to improve more than just documentation.