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Hi, I’m Kayce Basques. This website is primarily a blog about technical writing. I will eventually get around to hosting my resume and portfolio here, too.

About me#

I have been technical writing since 2012. My first job was at an IoT cloud startup called Arrayent. If you have an internet-connected LiftMaster or Chamberlain garage door opener then you are probably running Arrayent technology. That job was a fantastic trial by fire. I got a lot of experience in both web service and embedded C APIs. I also got to hack around on docs infrastructure a lot. When I joined Arrayent, the docs “strategy” was ad hoc generation of PDFs from Google Docs, distributed to customers over email. I migrated the company’s docs to a proper docs-as-code system running on top of Sphinx and Heroku. I even managed to somehow hack together an XSLT template to transform Doxygen XML into custom HTML! I’m still surprised that I stumbled on XSLT, let alone got that pipeline working.

To be continued…