Hi, I’m Daniel! I help people make and use software by writing documentation and code (learn more about me). Sometimes I write and speak.

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News and highlights

• Delete Your Content — To help you make your best content stand out, I’ve created Delete Your Content, an educational product to help you through the process of inventorying your content.

• Mozilla and MDN Web Docs — I create and maintain browser compatibility data with Mozilla’s MDN Web Docs team. Read How I helped Mozilla turn documentation into data to learn more. Or check out my post on Mozilla Hacks about what it means to “own” an open source project.

• Write the readable README — Write a README file that gives readers confidence in your project with my open source checklist.

• Tweets and text — I made some Twitter bots you might enjoy, including @KareninaClones and @starnearyou. I infrequently update How to Flee the Country, a newsletter about how I left America for a life in the United Kingdom.