In cryptography, there is a lot of wrangle between high-brow science and real-life software implementations. For a technical writer, this creates a number of questions that are very difficult to answer. What formulas do you keep in a GitHub Wiki? What performance benchmarks should you put into a scientific publication? How do you do that without acquiring an advanced degree on the subject or going crazy, or both?..

This talk is a combination of experiences and life hacks for balancing theory and practice in the docs and staying sane — gained through maintaining and creating documentation for open source crypto products.