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I'm a senior tech lead, writing about tech, volunteers, public safety, and collective intelligence. This blog contains articles, tools, code and ideas.
- Presence (tool) (in dev)
- ListSky (tool) (in dev)
- The Epistolorean (service)
- Consensus Games (service) (in dev)
- JSON to Smart CSV (tool)
- Escape the Review (profile)
- In this house... (calendar)
- A chat with Lewis (call)
Browsers rule with an iron fist when it comes to the things your web app is allowed to do, and video playback is a complex topic. This post breaks down some advanced solutions for developers implementing embedded video.
Conversational deliberation is hard to get right, and even harder to scale. Here’s how we’ve been lowering the barriers to both…
When the time comes to delete an old S3 bucket, it’s important to know that they can’t be deleted while they contain content. Here’s what you can do about it from the CLI…
ListSky is a new tool for collaboratively managing lists of social accounts.
An alternative calendar for the geek in your heart…
In this house we celebrate…
Here’s a fun alternative celebration calendar. It’s a collaboration between friends, and we’ll keep improving it. It’s for you, for the geek in your life, or the nerd in your heart. You can add it to Google Calendar for the full experience, or visit it on its own page.
What is The Epistolorean, and what has it got to do with Count Dracula?
How to use Open Social Distributor to post threads and messages across multiple social networks at once.
What if your UI was a slide show?
Reveal in React
TLDR: Here’s a template repository for a NextJS app with a Reveal slide show UI: instantiator/reveal-on-next
OAuth Token Explorer is a tool to explore authentication and authorisation on behalf of a user.
json-to-smart-csv is a tool to help build CSV records from arbitrary JSON…