Embeddings are underrated

There are 3 intractable challenges in technical writing. I do not believe we will ever be able to completely solve these challenges using only the practices and technologies of the 2010s.

A review of how much (or little) the ideas from GenAI Outlook 2023 have panned out, and a discussion of potential future trends in 2025.

I’m building a web crawler so that I can track how pages in my docs site link to each other and to the outside web more broadly. If a lot of my docs pages link to some particular page, then that page is probably important. PageRank Lite, basically, except with much more focus on intra-site backlinks.

A quote from Every Page Is Page One that has deeply changed how I approach technical writing.

I have been tasked with the fascinating and somewhat-overwhelming project of migrating pigweed.dev's build system from GN to Bazel. These are my notes on the project.