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Posts: 50 from 11 Sep 2007 to 10 Oct 2026
Posting: monthly (17 in the last year)
Kind: personal blog

2026 16

10 OctCivic Technology
10 OctData Journalism
10 OctThe New York Times Election Loader
10 Oct@nytimes on Twitter
10 OctOpen Source Projects
10 OctSky Gradients
10 OctTimes Haiku
10 OctDOGE Track
10 Oct404
10 Oct500
10 OctTesting
29 AprThe LLM Is Not a Junior Engineer
6 AprLog-Based Architecture Done Cheap in PostgreSQL
5 MarWhy I Don’t Vibe Code
20 FebFHIR for Medicaid Enrollment?
6 FebA Privacy Act With Teeth?

2025 4

29 AprThe Assault on Oversight in the Executive Branch
22 MarAn AI-Fueled Bureaucratic Nightmare
10 MarVisualizing the Human Toll of COVID-19
15 FebA Civic Tech Bookshelf

2021 1

9 DecBad Metrics For Agile Development

2016 3

2015 5

16 DecWhy Is It So Hard to Make Great Food Infographics?
23 AprLeaving the New York Times
15 MarThank You, Electionbot
18 FebConsider the Boolean
15 JanConnecting with the Dots

2014 2

13 OctPrediction for 2015 - A Wave of P.R. Data
22 MayDistrust Your Data

2013 3

19 SepThe Times Regrets the Error
13 AprAnd Remember, This Is for Posterity
28 MarHow the Data Sausage Gets Made

2012 1

29 NovThe New York Times’ Election Loader

2011 1

13 OctWord Clouds Considered Harmful

2010 3

24 OctWikileaks War Logs
15 SepUsing Varnish So News Doesn’t Break Your Server
15 AprHow Often Is the Times Tweeted?

2007 1

11 SepThe Right Kind of Stupid

Undated 10