Daniel D. Beck

I recently learned that there's a <q> HTML element. It's the inline counterpart to <blockquote>, except much weirder. https://ddbeck.com/notes/the-q-element

I took some brief notes on contributing to Git for the first time https://ddbeck.com/notes/first-git-commit

Why a 10-year-old Tumblr post by @galaxykate@xoxo.zone is the most important thing I've read about generating text https://ddbeck.com/notes/slops-ancestor/

Today's the first Monday of the month, which is a great time to document the undocumented with a README https://github.com/ddbeck/readme-checklist

Notes on pandoc for the people, the pandoc that runs in your web browser https://ddbeck.com/notes/pandoc-for-the-people

You might know camelCase or snake_case or kebab-case, but do you know Tall Man? https://ddbeck.com/notes/tall-man-lettering/

If you work with many Git remotes or submodules, you can save time on fetches with parallel jobs https://ddbeck.com/notes/git-fetch-parallel-jobs/

Hey, web specification authors: I dare you to title a spec without a Pascal case "Web" prefix. I bet you can't do it!

A reader recently wrote to me asking about how to organize docs, especially planning and design docs, in a new open source project. I blogged my response. #WriteTheDocs #documentation https://ddbeck.com/where-do-open-source-docs-go/

If you came to my talk at FOSDEM, "Stop chopping onions and extend Markdown without tears," thank you! My talk page has credits, slides, and further links. (This page works now, if you tried to go to it earlier.) https://ddbeck.com/fosdem2026/

xkcd 2347 is the unofficial logo of FOSDEM

A note on @jmac@masto.nyc's "assertions documents," Cunningham's Law, and a skill development pattern in tech writing https://ddbeck.com/notes/cunninghams-law-is-a-core-skill/