Contributing Writer

Taylor Barnett

Taylor Barnett is a community engineer and developer relations expert. She's passionate about building great developer experiences with an emphasis on empathy and inclusion within APIs, documentation, support, and other community-focused projects. She has spoken at conferences such as O'Reilly OSCON, API Strategy & Practices, DevXcon, and various local meetups about APIs, developer experience, SDKs, and building developer communities.

Where the Wild Docs Are

Where should open source documentation live? README or on a static site?

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Taylor Barnett
Aug 8, 2019
More Flexible JSON Linting with Spectral 4.0

Ruleset improvements and more CLI focus provide a better experience

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Taylor Barnett
Jul 11, 2019
Introducing Spectral

An open source, flexible JSON linter with out of the box support for the OpenAPI Specification

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Taylor Barnett
Mar 28, 2019
Writing Documentation When You Aren't A Technical Writer — Part Two

Avoiding oversimplification, writing good error messages, and having better word choice

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Taylor Barnett
Aug 23, 2018
Writing Documentation When You Aren't A Technical Writer — Part One

How do people actually read documentation and how to write documentation and code samples to maximize developer success

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Taylor Barnett
Jul 31, 2018