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Find something you care about today.
The only thing I want for my birthday is for you to find something you care about.
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Cheap content is the least interesting way to use LLMs in journalism
We don't need to be in the slop business, and we can use AI to solve real problems.
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How I'm using AI now
This is true as of April 2025. It'll probably be different a month from now, and definitely a year from now.
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Learning Rust by porting a small Python library
How much can I learn from a one-file project? Lots.
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A book for now: The Pope and Mussolini
David Kertzer paints a picture of a nearly failed state, unable to stem violence between fascists and socialsts, with almost no one willing to stand up for democracy.
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Setting defaults in Datasette's canned queries
Two SQL functions give us a better starting point
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Come back tomorrow
"There's a Pulitzer to be won in this courthouse every day," an attorney said. What does that mean?
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An ecological approach to self-hosted maps
We're working in a fast-changing space where solutions aren't stable, so it's important to take a problem-first approach.
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Mapping wildfires with Datasette and Felt
The tools are getting better and the fires are getting worse.
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So you want to build something interactive for your news story?
Answer these questions before you start coding up that sweet new thing.
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Boston parcels, mapped three ways
The age of buildings, residential assessments and value density.
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Five years of Go
After half a decade of regularly working in Go, there's a lot I've come to like about it, and a few things I still struggle with.
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My Python setup, as of January 2023
The Python landscape can be a confusing mess of overlapping tools that sometimes don't work well together. This is my setup.
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