@ddbeck.com - Daniel D. Beck

30 Apr 2026 11:42 +0000

Last year, I wrote about waking up a sleeping computer remotely. I took some new notes on how I've made it much more convenient. https://ddbeck.com/notes/revisiting-remote-wake-on-lan/

20 Apr 2026 13:42 +0000

The fish shell's `set_color` command taught me a little lesson about output streams, escape sequences, and things that aren't magic. Plus, I got a tiny change into the fish docs. https://ddbeck.com/notes/fish-set-color-stderr?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky

20 Apr 2026 13:42 +0000

01 Apr 2026 12:02 +0000

It's the first of the month and you're no fool. Why not share what you know by writing a README file? https://github.com/ddbeck/readme-checklist

16 Mar 2026 12:42 +0000

I recently learned that there's a HTML element. It's the inline counterpart to

, except much weirder. https://ddbeck.com/notes/the-q-element?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky

10 Mar 2026 12:42 +0000

I took some brief notes on contributing to Git for the first time https://ddbeck.com/notes/first-git-commit?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky

03 Mar 2026 12:42 +0000

Why a 10-year-old Tumblr post by @galaxykate.bsky.social is still the most important thing I've read about generating text https://ddbeck.com/notes/slops-ancestor?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky

02 Mar 2026 12:42 +0000

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

25 Feb 2026 14:42 +0000

Notes on pandoc for the people, the pandoc that runs in your web browser https://ddbeck.com/notes/pandoc-for-the-people?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky

23 Feb 2026 12:42 +0000

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

19 Feb 2026 14:42 +0000

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/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=Social

18 Feb 2026 16:33 +0000

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

16 Feb 2026 12:42 +0000

A reader recently wrote to me asking about where to put docs, especially planning and design docs, in a new open source project. I blogged my response. #documentation https://ddbeck.com/where-do-open-source-docs-go/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=Social

31 Jan 2026 14:44 +0000

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/

31 Jan 2026 10:08 +0000

xkcd 2347 is the unofficial logo of FOSDEM

12 Jan 2026 12:42 +0000

A note on "assertions documents," Cunningham's Law, and a skill development pattern in tech writing https://ddbeck.com/notes/cunninghams-law-is-a-core-skill/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=Social

06 Jan 2026 12:42 +0000

A brief note on alt text and John Lee Clark's essay, "Against Access" https://ddbeck.com/notes/against-access/

05 Jan 2026 12:42 +0000

Today's my first workday of the year and some things are slightly unfamiliar again. The new year great time to document something undocumented with a README, while it's still "new" https://github.com/ddbeck/readme-checklist