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Al Shaw News Applications Developer at ProPublica.

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projects.propublica.org 4mo ago

Explore Financial Disclosures from President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees

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projects.propublica.org 9y ago

Why Houston's ‘Once-In-A-Lifetime' Floods Keep Happening

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www.propublica.org 10y ago

Telecoms Delaying Critical Patches for Classified Military Smartphones

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www.propublica.org 11y ago

New data on payments from drug and device companies to doctors

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projects.propublica.org 11y ago

40 Years of Growth in Las Vegas, via Landsat and WebGL

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projects.propublica.org 11y ago

How we turned the Colorado River into a plumbing system for 7 states

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projects.propublica.org 11y ago

How U.S. Commanders Spent $2B of Petty Cash in Afghanistan

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www.propublica.org 11y ago

Antebellum Data Journalism: How Big Data Busted Abe Lincoln

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projects.propublica.org 11y ago

Louisiana’s Moon Shot – Plan to save its coastline

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www.propublica.org 11y ago

Meet the Telecom Industry's Fake Grassroots Campaign Against Net Neutrality

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tilde.club 11y ago

Tilde Club

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www.nationalgeographic.com 11y ago

Draining California

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www.propublica.org 11y ago

LiveJournal Helping Russia Block Prominent Putin Critic

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www.nytimes.com 11y ago

Data on Transfer of Military Gear to Police Departments

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fuckingclosuresyntax.com 12y ago

How Do I Declare a Closure in Swift?

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twitter.com 12y ago

Gnutls goto fail

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notebooks.jsvine.com 12y ago

Reverse-Engineering Xkcd's 'Frequency'

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projects.propublica.org 12y ago

How Dark Money Flows Through the Koch Network

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www.radiolab.org 12y ago

Neither Confirm Nor Deny

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medium.com 12y ago

The Year I Didn’t Retweet Men

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www.propublica.org 12y ago

How to Start Learning to Program

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style.org 12y ago

The Weight of Rain

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www.propublica.org 12y ago

How Six People Who Had Never Worked Together Before Made a News App in Two Days

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www.propublica.org 12y ago

Spy Agencies Probe Angry Birds and Other Apps for Personal Data

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www.propublica.org 12y ago

World of Spycraft: NSA and CIA Spied in Online Games

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tumblr.pauladamsmith.com 12y ago

Everyblock Co-founder on healthcare.gov and Marketplace sites

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www.propublica.org 13y ago

NSA Says It Can’t Search Its Own Emails

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github.com 13y ago

Transcribable: Drop in crowdsourcing for your Rails app.

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projects.propublica.org 13y ago

WebGL map of New York City Flood Zones

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www.propublica.org 13y ago

No Windows. One Exit. Free Drinks: Casino-Driven Design for Crowdsourcing

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I was also at the TimesOpen Hack day, and spent most of the day coding. There was a lot of chatter there, though (some of it contributed to what my app eventually became). Bring headphones for when you need to start building. Thankfully no one there presented deckware.

[dead] 16 years ago

StackOverflow is the only one that comes to mind.

You get something similar to this with the bit.ly sidebar bookmarklet. When you shorten a URL, it tells you how many clicks there have been on all bit.ly-shortened links for that URL. I always check out this number, and if a link has over a certain amount of clicks, I usually won't tweet.

[C4 release]; 16 years ago

What new features would you want? I still use Tiger on my primary machine and haven't missed much (outside of performance boosts) in the subsequent releases.

750 Words 17 years ago

One thing that struck me as weird was-- after the spiel about the site being private (between 'you and you'), it asks you to sign in via facebook.

FriendDA 17 years ago

yea, with all these NDA posts I thought it would be appropriate to dredge up again.

eerie premonition:

  We'd all feel better about shelling out the bucks
  for a Power Mac 9600 if we could get a tower with leopard spots.