Tom Belskie

Tom Belskie

Finds out how things work. Writes it down.

Senior technical writer, ten-plus years. Philadelphia.

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Writing

Connecting Appian to custom websites with Web APIs

Integration guide

From "what is a Web API here" to a working connection. The work was the sequencing.

Designing with card components

Design guidance

Component behavior turned into judgment. When a card helps, and when it doesn't.

Localize currency display

Function reference

Written to be scanned and applied in under a minute. Reference is discipline about what to leave out.

On each sample

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Record

Documentation kept for

2026 –

Iron Mountain

Leading the move from a legacy CCMS to Mintlify and docs-as-code.

2025 – 26

Rippling

Help center and developer portal for the platform's data products.

2022 – 25

Appian

Documentation and UX content for Solutions products. Thirty-plus releases in one six-month stretch.

2015 – 22

AssetWorks

Sole writer for an enterprise fleet platform. Rebuilt four hundred help topics.

The full record

III

Made

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Chrome extension · 400+ installs

Sixty seconds to settle before deep work. Designed, built, documented, and shipped alone. Chrome Web Store

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Notes

I used to be able to write

I'm not saying I used to be a good writer. Only that I used to be able to do it without much fanfare.

How to Get Rich (Without Getting Lucky)

Writing Sucks

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