Dan Benjamin
Dan is a podcaster, screencaster, writer, software developer, designer, and entrepreneur. He is the Chief Scientist at Secret Space Agency, creating blogs, web magazines, and podcasts.
Email Dan if you’d like to hire him, ask questions, or just get in touch. You can also follow Dan on Twitter.
Broadcasting & Voice Work
Dan is the co-host of several podcasts, including Rails Envy, the web’s first and most popular weekly Ruby & Ruby on Rails podcast, Tack Sharp, a photography podcast, and the ExpressionEngine Podcast, covering EE news and development.
Dan does narration, writing, conceptualization, and production work for PeepCode, specializing in high-intensity screencasts for web developers and alpha geeks.
Email Dan if you’d like to hire him for voice work on your project.
Writing
Dan is the author of Hivelogic, a website about quality, efficiency, and mindfulness, since 2000. He is the Founder, Curator, and Editor-in-Chief of Playgrounder, the buyers guide for parents and kids. Dan has also written articles for A List Apart, O’Reilly, and other web magazines and journals.
Development
Over the last 16 years, Dan has been actively involved in software development, with a strong focus on web development. Recently, Dan co-founded Cork’d, the web’s first social network for wine aficionados (later acquired by the famous Gary Vaynerchuk). He created the CMS for A List Apart, a web magazine for people who make websites. He developed and designed Overlapr, an experimental site to visually compare Twitter users. Dan is currently the Technology Director at NextUpdate where he works on Sifter, an elegant bug and issue tracker.
Personal
Dan practices daily Vipassana meditation in the Theravada Buddhist tradition. His articles on this subject can be found here.
Dan lives with his wife and son near Florida’s Space Coast.