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danvk.org

JavaScript / TypeScriptWeb developmentSoftware / engineering practice

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Posts
28 from 1 Oct 2014 to 10 Sep 2026
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now and then (2 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 2

  1. Introducing mapsnap: Automated Georeferencing for Historic Sanborn Insurance Maps
  2. AI helps add 10,000 more photos to OldNYC

2025 8

  1. Working on Hard Problems
  2. Python and C++ with pybind11: A Great Combination
  3. Boggle Roundup: My Fifteen Minutes of Fame
  4. After 20 Years, the Globally Optimal Boggle Board
  5. Boggle Revisited: Following up on an insight
  6. Boggle Revisited: A Thrilling Insight and the Power of Algorithms
  7. Boggle Revisited: New Ideas in 2025
  8. Boggle Revisited: Finding the Globally-Optimal 3x4 Boggle Board

2024 1

  1. Another Decade, Another Webdiff

2016 2

  1. AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol
  2. Extending the Grid to Add 1,000 Photos to OldNYC

2015 7

  1. My takeaways from NIPS 2015
  2. Dan writes on HammerLab
  3. Launched: OldNYC
  4. PyCon 2015: Make web development awesome with visual diffing tools
  5. Training an Ocropus OCR model
  6. Extracting text from an image using Ocropus
  7. Finding blocks of text in an image using Python, OpenCV and numpy

2014 8

  1. Choosing an iOS Podcasting App
  2. JavaScript String slice, substr, substring: which to use?
  3. GitHub integration and Image Diff improvements headline webdiff 0.8
  4. Life after Google, Six Months In
  5. Fully Migrated to GitHub Pages
  6. Filtering JSON with pyjsonselect and jss
  7. Facebook (non-)Insights
  8. Trying out GitHub Pages