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This page presents an exhaustive list of professional publications and presentations by Jason McIntosh. For a shorter but broader selection of writing samples, including blog posts and relevant hobbyist and semi-professional work, see my tech writing portfolio.

Individual articles, presentations, and books

• Storyteller, an article about creating interactive fiction with Linux, Linux Magazine, August 2025.
• Steam Gems, an article about customizing ("modding") Steam Deck games, Linux Magazine, April 2025.
• Steam Deck Desktop Mode, Linux Magazine, March 2025.
• The evolution of Memcached, LWN.net, February 2025.
• Case study: Auditing Perl’s documentation, self-published for Google Summer of Docs, December 2021.
• A tour of Perl’s new documentation style guide, presented at the Perl and Raku Conference, June 2021.
• Measure a Website’s Recurring Readership with Bise, Linode, September 2020.
• Accessibility Testing Report, Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation, June 2019.
• A brief history of text-based games and open source, Opensource.com, July 2018.
• BumpySkies: A passion-project postmortem presented at The Perl Conference, June 2017.
• I wrote to a dead address in a deleted PDF and now I know where all the airplanes are!!, presented at !!Con, May 2017.
• Using IMAP with Apple’s Mail Application, Mac OS X Hacks, O’Reilly Media, 2003.
• Mac OS X in a Nutshell, (with Chris Stone and Chuck Toporek), O’Reilly Media, 2002.
• Perl & XML (with Erik T. Ray), O’Reilly Media, 2001.
• ComicsML: A Simple Markup Language for Comics, O’Reilly Media, 2001.

Open-source documentation contributions

• Built-in proxy and various sub-pages, Memcached documentation, October 2024.
• perldocstyle - A style guide for writing Perl’s documentation, Perl documentation, May 2021.
• open, Perl documentation, June 2020.
• Opening pipes, Perl documentation, June 2020.

Other significant work

• AlloyDB developer documentation (team lead), Google, 2022–2024.
• Spanner developer documentation (team lead), Google, 2021–2022.
• Annual transparency reports, Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation, 2018-2023.