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 Facilitation & Coaching

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The Seven Essential Coaching Questions

The Seven Essential Coaching Questions is a collection of practical, easy-to-use questions that Michael Bungay Stanier outlines in his book, The Coaching Habit. They're designed to help managers and team members alike to effectively and confidently coach each other. This document provides an overview of the questions and offers some general advice on how to use them.

Tool Software Tools

Intro to FigJam

FigJam is a digital white-boarding tool by Figma that is perfect for remote collaboration. It allows teams to work simultaneously in the same file and is designed for interactive white-boarding sessions. FigJam is a useful tool for distributed teams and can help increase the efficiency and effectiveness of meetings and workshops.

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.