Danny Smith

Recent writing

Recent notes

Oct 20, 2026

Letting Claude write to my daily note

I've never been good at keeping my Obsidian daily notes up to date, and more and more of what I actually do happens in conversations with...

Oct 20, 2026

How I use Claude skills and projects in the desktop app

Since Opus 5.5, Claude's responses are again sufficiently readable for me to want to use it more outside the CLI.

Oct 4, 2026

Sail o' the Line

I just asked Claude to make a mini-website explaining how Napoleonic-era sailing ships worked. You can find it here.

Oct 2, 2026

A place to keep single-page tools

I sometimes find myself vibe coding single-page HTML tools and "microsites" for specific use cases like my little biggles books site.

Random tools from the toolbox

Tool Slack

Slack Statuses

Slack statuses are a useful way to communicate your availability and status without sending messages. This document provides a guide to creating and documenting Slack statuses, with examples and tips for use. It also includes links to resources for further information.

Tool Async Collaboration

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Writing Good Evergreen Documents

Writing Good Evergreen Documents provides guidance on creating effective and user-friendly documents in a Wiki-type system. It emphasizes core principles such as clarity, aesthetics, simplicity, self-explanation, and future-proofing. The document also offers practical tips on writing style and structuring documents, along with a note on using AI tools for writing assistance.

Current projects

Project In development

Astro Editor

Astro Editor is a native desktop app for writing and editing the Markdown and MDX inside Astro content collections. Astro Editor reads the collection schema and turns the YAML frontmatter into proper form fields in a...

Project In development

Taskdn

Taskdn is a system for managing my tasks and projects as plain markdown files. Every task, project and life area is a markdown file with a bit of YAML frontmatter, in a folder I control.