Daniel D. Beck

Events

A list of talks I've presented.

I want your wholesome self promotion

at Write the Docs Berlin 2025

How to share the great work you're doing with the Write the Docs Slack chat community.

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OSS Documentation Workshop

at Open Source Summit Europe 2025

An introduction to new tools for open source docs maintainers.

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Patterns in Documentation

on API Resilience

I joined the API Resilience podcast to talk about documentation project archetypes, data-to-docs pipelines, and the maintenance burdens of LLMs.

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Deprecate and Destroy

at Write the Docs Prague 2017

How to cope when your software or service is shutting down (or deprecating major features) and it’s time to break the bad news to your users.

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410 Gone: documenting API deprecations and shutdowns

at API the Docs London 2017

How to cope when your software or service is shutting down (or deprecating major features) and it’s time to break the bad news to your users.

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Checklist the Docs

at Write the Docs Europe 2016

Use checklists in your technical writing process.

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Write the Readable README

at Write the Docs North America 2016

Learn to write READMEs that will help your users identity, evaluate, use, and engage with your projects.

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