Watts Martin

I’m a consulting technical writer working remotely from Tampa Bay, Florida.

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Technical writing examples

I wrote, rewrote, or extensively edited all of this documentation. While the RethinkDB and Bixby documentation sites have mostly remained static, this version of Bixby has been deprecated, and it’s unclear how long the documentation will remain online. I have added Wayback Machine links to relevant pages, indicated by “[Archive]”; if I catch an old page being deleted or radically changed, 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]
• Minecraft Creator Learning Journey: A guide for beginning Minecraft developers I extensively edited, including rewriting old sections, adding new ones, and re-organizing the reading flow.
• Vibrant Visuals: An overview of the new (as of mid-2025) rendering engine in Minecraft: Bedrock Edition.

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”.