Hi, I’m Daniel!

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Upcoming and recent events

I don’t have any events scheduled right now. Invite me to speak or attend your upcoming event.

You may have seen me at:

State of the Docs 2026 launch party, 3 February 2026 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, hosted by Adyen, GitBook, and Write the Docs Amsterdam. I joined a panel discussion about what’s new in making and maintaining documentation.
FOSDEM, 31 January–1 February 2026 in Brussels, Belgium. I presented on how to extend Markdown without tears and introduced speakers in the Tool the Docs developer room.
Write the Docs Berlin, 27-28 October 2025 in Berlin, Germany. I presented the lightning talk, “I want your wholesome self promotion.” I also co-hosted the Welcome Wagon for first-time attendees of a Write the Docs conference, reprising my role at Write the Docs Prague 2018 through 2022. I was glad to meet so many engaged and excited attendees and I hope I’ll see you at another Write the Docs event soon.
Open Source Summit Europe, 25-27 August 2025 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Erin McKean and I presented a talk on new resources that help open source maintainers make and maintain documentation.

Here are a few things I’ve been working on recently:

Delete Your Content — To help you make your best content stand out, I’ve created Delete Your Content, an educational product to help you inventory your docs.
Documentation project archetypes, documentation maturity audit, and Google Season of Docs — I’ve worked with the Google Season of Docs team to create two resources to help open source software maintainers create documentation and work more effectively with technical writers. Check out the documentation maturity audit and the documentation project archetypes to learn more.
Write the readable README — Write a README file that gives readers confidence in your project with my open source checklist.
Baseline and web-features — As part of my client work, I work with the W3C WebDX Community Group to create and maintain Baseline and web-features, tools to help developers understand the capabilities of the web platform across browsers.
Write the Docs community chat — I’m a moderator for the Write the Docs community chat. Join other “documentarians” on Slack!