Worth your time
- Draw a shape to find the closest unicode character --> Draw the Unicode character you want!
- “MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console” --> telnet mapscii.me
- How many times have I heard this sound and never thought about it. Very cool to see it written out in music notation. And then recreated? Super cool. --> THX theme in SuperCollider | schollz
Today I learned
- Stitches inline media queries
- Fix FIPS codes in R with str_pad()
- find-which-npm-dependency-has-dependency
Projects and posts
Follow a mile-by-mile map of the total solar eclipse
March 13, 2024
Recently
December 20, 2023
Getting on the "Recently" blog post train. Time will tell how long this lasts ...
These fake images reveeal how AI amplifies our worst sterotypes
November 1, 2023
Writing a bad chess engine
October 4, 2023
My bot just plays a random move so far. Can you write a better one?
Are you middle class?
June 1, 2023
See how AI got so good, so fast
May 26, 2023
Some notes on the analysis and visualization techniques
See the websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound so smart
April 21, 2023
Feedmaker: Quickly generate an RSS feed from any website
April 16, 2023
Just pass in a CSS selector as a query parameter
How The Post is replacing Mapbox with open source solutions
February 16, 2023
I rebuilt our interactive mapping stack with open source technology
AI can now create images out of thin air. See how it works.
December 16, 2022
The housing market is cooling. What’s it like in your area?
September 20, 2022
Investors bought a record share of homes in 2021. See where.
February 16, 2022
A tool to create printable, scannable cards for albums on Spotify
November 3, 2021
Pandora Papers: Billions beyond reach
October 3, 2021
How Big Tech got so big: Hundreds of acquisitions
April 21, 2021
Drug companies seek billion-dollar tax deductions from opioid settlement
February 12, 2021
Which of these 2020 Democrats agrees with you most?
November 18, 2019
We’re asking 2020 Democrats where they stand on key issues
March 14, 2019
Some tax breaks are for the rich. Others for the poor. Which are for you?
September 27, 2017
How cable news networks reacted to Comey’s hearing
June 8, 2017
A new age of walls: Raising barriers
October 12, 2016
Eight countries. 2,055 nuclear tests. 71 years.
November 27, 2015
Describing the ‘majority illusion’
October 9, 2015
China’s rapid island-building strategy continues
July 1, 2015
The best beer in baseball
August 8, 2014
So you think you can flop?
July 9, 2014
Leagues of the World Cup
June 12, 2014
How we made our beer matchmaker
March 29, 2014
Beer Me, Minnesota!
March 13, 2014
Playing the Stadium Name Game
July 31, 2013
Introducing: Binify
April 19, 2013