Hi, I’m Daniel! I help people make and use software by writing documentation and code (learn more about me). Sometimes I write and talk.
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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.
Write the Docs — I’m active in the Write the Docs community. I’m a moderator for the Write the Docs community Slack chat. Come say hello! In October 2021, I co-hosted the Welcome Wagon for first-time attendees of the Write the Docs conference in Prague held online.
Write the readable README — Write a README file that gives readers confidence in your project with my open source checklist.
Mozilla and MDN Web Docs — From 2017 to 2022, I worked on Mozilla’s MDN Web Docs team as a contractor and, later, as technical content lead. Read How I helped Mozilla turn documentation into data or my post on Mozilla Hacks about what it means to “own” an open source project to learn more about my work with MDN.
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.