https://jacobtomlinson.dev/tags/documentation/ Recent content in Documentation on Jacob Tomlinson Hugo en-gb Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://jacobtomlinson.dev/posts/2026/documenting-your-software-libraries-for-agents/ Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://jacobtomlinson.dev/posts/2026/documenting-your-software-libraries-for-agents/ <div class="alert alert-info">This post is a companion to a talk I gave at <a href="https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/3MAU9W/">PyData London 2026</a>. You can watch the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRDtplyhRYw">recording here</a> and see the <a href="https://speakerdeck.com/jacobtomlinson/documenting-your-open-source-projects-for-machines">slides here</a>. </div> <p>I&rsquo;ve spent a lot of my software engineering career working on open source tools, libraries and frameworks. These are chunks of software that other software engineers use to build their software. I make things for makers, and I like that. A large part of working on these projects is telling people about the library, and explaining to them how to use it. Open Source Software Engineers spend a big chunk of their time on grassroots marketing, getting other engineers to use their code.</p>