Recent obsession: "genres" in technical writing.

Is there a better word for this?

What I mean is — books, blog posts, etc. that belong to a recognizable category/style, with shared characteristics and particular pedagogical POV.

A thread with some of my favourite examples…

"X in One Weekend" / "The Next Week" / "The Rest of Your Life"

twitter.com/dubroy/status/…

"Build Your Own X" — get a deeper understanding of a certain tool/library by building a toy implementation from scratch.

build-your-own.org/redis/
pomb.us/build-your-own…

"Gems" — small, bite-sized bits of practical knowledge.

The original (AFAIK) was the "Graphics Gems" series: glassner.com/portfolio/grap…, but it's inspired others:

GPU Gems, Game Programming Gems, etc.

Cheat sheets!

(Maybe more of a medium than a genre.)

simon.html5.org/dump/html5-can…
github.com/gendx/pdf-chea…

Of course there many famous books series (dummies, 24 hours, etc.) but those are more of a marketing thing than a true genre imo.