Introduction

Hi folks,

I'm Daniel D. Beck (@ddbeck most places). In today's call it was suggested
to do written intros in addition to the round we did in the call, so here I
am. 👋

I'm a technical writer and independent consultant with a focus on making
tools, processes, and content for reaching developer audiences. The dumb
joke I tell is that I write documentation and I program, so I know lots of
ways to use a semicolon.

I got involved in the WebDX group thanks to Kadir Topal and Philip
Jägenstedt at Google, who have contracted me to contribute to developing
the web platform feature grouping methodology and tools. I'm really excited
to dig into the web platform again.

In the not-too-distant past, I worked with Mozilla and MDN, first as a
contractor and later capped by a stint as MDN technical content lead. A big
portion of my time there was working on mdn/browser-compat-data and other
projects to help structure useful content for web developers.

(I've also had the pleasure of past client work on docs a little less
immediately relevant here, such as test analytics at Buildkite, social
gaming infra at Heroic Labs, and dev tools at Arm.)

Outside of work, I live in Amsterdam (UTC+1) with my wife, a cat, and far
too many books. Since I just moved to the Netherlands this summer, a lot of
my free time is spent trying to produce the Dutch "hard G" and to avoid
getting hit by bicycles.

I'm looking forward to working with all of you!

Daniel