Watts Martin
I’m a consulting technical writer working remotely from Tampa Bay, Florida.
Technical writing examples
I wrote, rewrote, or extensively edited all of this documentation. Note that while RethinkDB documentation has mostly remained static, Bixby documentation appears likely to change in the future, given reports of a pivot to a new LLM-driven Bixby revamp planned for 2025. I have added Wayback Machine links to relevant pages, indicated by “[Archive]”; if I catch an old page radically changing, I will remove the old link entirely and make an annotation.
These are just representative samples. I wrote or edited most of RethinkDB’s documentation, as I was the sole tech writer at the company; I was part of a three-person team at Samsung, and wrote a substantial portion of Bixby’s, particularly with respect to APIs and the proprietary development environment.
Developer Guides
- Changefeeds in RethinkDB: A higher-level guide to “changefeeds,” RethinkDB’s streaming data API. [Archive]
- The Bixby Modeling Language: An overview of the declarative modeling language used by Samsung’s Bixby voice assistant. [Archive]
- Bixby Developer Studio: Documentation for the Electron-based code editor used for developing Bixby applications. [Archive]
API documentation
- RethinkDB Changefeed API: The API for changefeeds. I wrote the documentation for all four supported languages here, and wrote nearly all the Java examples. [Archive]
- Bixby API Reference: Reference material on Bixby’s library capsules, JavaScript API, and Assertions (for testing). [Archive]
Other work
- Bixby Modeling: A post written for Bixby’s developer relations blog (no longer online). It’s more of a high-level overview of the Bixby application environment and written in a conversational style, although it’s still aimed at developers. (PDF)
- BBEdit 14, and why you should care: A review of BBEdit 14, the first version of the venerable macOS text editor to get support for the Language Server Protocol.
- Review: Nisus Writer Express 2.0: A review of Nisus Writer Express, a relatively early Mac OS X word processor, written for online magazine “About This Particular Macintosh”.