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title: About the theme's author
keywords: documentation theme, jekyll, technical writers, help authoring tools, hat replacements
last_updated: July 3, 2016
tags: [getting_started]
summary: "I have used this theme for projects that I've worked on as a professional technical writer."
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permalink: mydoc_about.html
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My name is Tom Johnson, and I'm a technical writer, blogger, and podcaster based in San Jose, California. For more details, see my [technical writing blog](http://idratherbewriting.com) and my [course on API documentation](http://idratherbewriting.com/learnapidoc/).  See [my blog's about page](http://idratherbewriting.com/aboutme/) for more details about me.

I have used this theme and variations of it for various documentation projects. This theme has undergone several major iterations, and now it's fairly stable and full of all the features that I need. You are welcome to use it for your documentation projects for free.

I think this theme does pretty much everything that you can do with something like OxygenXML, but without the constraints of structured authoring. Everything is completely open and changeable, so if you start tinkering around with the theme's files, you can break things. But it's completely empowering as well!

With a completely open architecture and code base, you can modify the code to make it do exactly what you want, without having to jump through all kinds of confusing or proprietary code.

If there's a feature you need but it isn't available here, let me know and I might add it. Alternatively, if you fork the theme, I would love to see your modifications and enhancements.

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