Developer experience consultant and technical writer

Frances Elliott

Developer experience consultant, particularly specialized in API onboarding, and technical writer. Former software dev project management. I use this space to reflect personally on my work challenges and accomplishments.

Comparison: AI-generated developer docs vs blogs

I’m sure that generating developer documents with the assistance of LLMs will be a core part of my work in my near future. Doc platforms like theneo already ...

Generating Mermaid diagrams with Chat GPT

I’ve been meaning to learn Mermaid diagram syntax for a while; I know it would greatly empower and simplify my diagram creation process. But it stayed on the...

Comparing docs platforms: Readme vs Mintlify

Recently I investigated migrating from the Readme docs platform to Mintlify for one of my clients, Sensible. I’ll briefly record my impressions here:

Overhauling docs for product-lead growth

One of my pleasures as a founding writer a startups is restructuring the docs as the product improves. Self-serve developer tools are fun to document, becau...

My wishlist for LLM-powered authoring tools for SDK and API documentation

I’m currently writing some SDK docs from scratch, and it got me thinking about my wishlist for LLM-powered doc-authoring tools for SDKs and APIs. Ignoring qu...