Arianna Danielle is an independently edited resource for students, tech learners and young adults finding their way through study, work and life.
The site began as a personal blog created by Arianna, a computer science PhD student living in London. She wrote from firsthand experience about doctoral study, changing careers, learning to code, working in male-dominated industries and building a life abroad.
Today, the site is owned and edited by Brett Stadelmann, an Australian independent editor and publisher. The original creator’s perspective remains an important part of the archive, while new and substantially updated content is developed under Brett’s editorial direction.
Who Owns and Edits the Site Today?
Brett Stadelmann is the current owner and editor of Arianna Danielle.
Brett is also the founder and editor of Unsustainable Magazine, an independent publication he launched in 2019. His work includes researching, writing, commissioning and editing practical explainers, contributed articles and evidence-aware resources for a broad online readership.
He does not claim Arianna’s academic or professional history. His role is to care for the useful work already published here, identify where information has aged, and build a clearer resource around the subjects the site is best placed to cover.
What You Will Find Here
Study and PhD Life
Doctoral study is intellectually demanding, but the practical and emotional pressures around it matter too. The site covers research routines, dissertation anxiety, useful study tools and thoughtful support for postgraduate students.
Good places to begin include our guide to working through dissertation anxiety and our rebuilt collection of genuinely useful gifts for PhD students.
Technology, Green Tech and Sustainable Computing
Arianna Danielle continues to help beginners understand technology without assuming an advanced technical background. Increasingly, that includes the environmental consequences of software, artificial intelligence, devices and data infrastructure.
Explore green software engineering basics, try practical experiments to examine how green your code is, or learn about starting a career in green technology.
Early Careers and Independent Life
Leaving university rarely comes with a complete instruction manual. The site also covers early-career decisions, productivity, first homes, working from home and the ordinary systems that make adult life easier to manage.
The goal is not to present one perfect lifestyle. It is to offer useful options, explain trade-offs and help readers make decisions that fit their actual circumstances.
How We Handle Older Content
Changing ownership does not require erasing the person who built the site. It does require clarity about whose experience a reader is encountering.
Our approach is to:
- preserve useful original work and its historical perspective;
- remove broken links, unavailable products and obsolete recommendations;
- check factual claims when an article is substantially updated;
- distinguish firsthand experience from later editorial additions;
- credit guest contributors and original authors where appropriate;
- avoid presenting inherited credentials or personal experiences as the current editor’s; and
- correct errors when they are brought to our attention.
Some older articles naturally reflect the time in which they were written. Where that context is important, we would rather explain it than silently make the past appear current.
Our Editorial Approach
Arianna Danielle aims to publish content that is understandable, useful and honest about its limits. Depending on the subject, editorial review may include checking primary or authoritative sources, testing links, separating evidence from opinion, adding missing context and removing claims that cannot be supported.
Commercial relationships do not automatically make a recommendation useful. Products, services and links should earn their place by helping the reader. Sponsored or contributed material remains subject to editing, and relevant commercial relationships should be disclosed.
No website gets everything right forever. If you find a factual error, a broken resource or a passage whose authorship is unclear, please tell us so it can be reviewed.
Contact Arianna Danielle
Questions, corrections and thoughtful editorial enquiries are welcome. Please use the contact page and include the relevant article URL when writing about a correction.
Thank you for reading—and for allowing this site to grow without pretending it has never changed.