Designing delightful docs, with Orta Therox, TypeScript Compiler Engineer at Microsoft

The Sourcegraph Podcast

Episode | Podcast

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 09:00:00 -0700

<p>How do you design software docs and websites that both intrigue and educate? As a contributor to popular projects like React Native, Jest, Prettier, and TypeScript, Orta Therox has prioritized design for visual engagement, accessibility, and learning. In this episode of the Sourcegraph Podcast, Orta talks about the importance of engaging docs, how experimentation fuels learning and engineering in TypeScript, and how developers can write better code examples with Shiki Twoslash, a project he developed and designed. Along the way, Orta also shares his own story of getting into code and the odd way he was hired on Microsoft&apos;s TypeScript compiler team.<br /><br />Show notes &amp; transcript: https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/orta-therox/<br /><br />Sourcegraph: https://about.sourcegraph.com</p>