Writing

Systems Over Sentences

How I think about
documentation systems.

Not tips. Not listicles. Writing for DevTools and SaaS founders on the architecture, ownership, and craft underneath good technical documentation.

The series

Systems Over Sentences: 10 parts on how documentation actually works.

A complete series for technical writers and the founders who work with them. Start from Part 01 or jump to wherever you are.

All writing

Every article, every idea.

Anatomy of Great Documentation
Part 05 · Systems Over Sentences

Anatomy of Great Documentation

Three elements separate documentation that works from documentation that merely exists. They show up in the same places every time.

May 2026
Writing for Developers vs Non-Technical Users
Part 04 · Systems Over Sentences

Writing for Developers vs Non-Technical Users

Same information, completely different job. Here’s what that distinction actually means in practice, and why getting it wrong costs more than you’d think.

April 2026
How Product Teams Actually Handle Documentation
Part 03 · Systems Over Sentences

How Product Teams Actually Handle Documentation

Documentation doesn’t break at the writing stage. It breaks when no one clearly owns what happens next.

April 2026
Your Documentation is a Bakery
Part 02 · Systems Over Sentences

Your Documentation is a Bakery. Here’s How to Build a Supermarket.

You can’t control which page your reader lands on first. What you can control is whether every page has windows that connect them to what they need next.

April 2026
From Writing to Documentation Systems
Part 01 · Systems Over Sentences

From Writing to Documentation Systems

Most people think technical writing is about writing. The real job is designing how information works. Here’s the distinction that changes everything.

April 2026
Introduction to Structured Writing
Part 06 · Systems Over Sentences

Introduction to Structured Writing

Most writing problems are not writing problems. They are structure problems. Here is the framework that separates content that scales from content that stalls.

June 2026

Series in progress

Parts 07–10 of
Systems Over Sentences
are being written now.

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Docs-as-Code in Practice & more

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About the writer

Writing for founders
who need their docs to hold up.

I’m Douglas Ebhoman, a documentation systems specialist based in Prague. I came to this work through creative writing, which means I arrived already knowing that the hardest part of any document is not what you write. It’s understanding what the reader is carrying before you ask them to carry something new.

This blog is where I think out loud about the systems problem underneath documentation. Not tips. Not trends. The structural decisions that determine whether a documentation system holds up or slowly becomes a liability.

If your product is scaling and your docs are not, the Documentation Audit is where we start.

Douglas Ebhoman

Documentation Systems Specialist · Prague

“Narrative is infrastructure. I treat it that way.”