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2021

Automating Paperwork: A book for companies interested in document automation

2020

Robot Book Club, and the challenges of NLP at Scale

A GPT-3 Travel Agent, and Offline AI

Knock knock; Who's there? Understanding GPT-3 Prompt Engineering

2018

To solve an impossible problem, redefine it

The Case of the Murderous AI

Cloudstitch acquired by Instabase

A text alignment algorithm inspired by ..soap operas?

How to outperform perfectionism with ensembles and a "Good Enough" mindset

How to approach structured data extraction from images

2017

I turned my Baby Dash Button Hack into a Pager for Toddlers

Fill your Sketch Designs with Data from Spreadsheets

Letter To An Immigrant Child

Use Spreadsheet data in your Framer Projects

America without Immigration isn’t America

The Math of How Protests Snowball

2016

Auto-incrementing ID Columns in Google Sheets

Hacking hierarchical joins into Spreadsheets, Rails Style

On Disposable Software

How to Upload Files from the web to a Google Spreadsheet

2015

Launching is an Accountability Hack

D3 in a Box is Docker for Visualizations

Four Months On Lambda: The Good, the Bad, and the Intriguing

How I Hacked Amazon’s $5 WiFi Button to track Baby Data

Four Reasons Startup Founders Should Go to Hackathons (It’s Not What I Originally Thought.)

Managing State across an Ant Swarm of AWS Lambda Tasks

2014

PhD Defense: Creating Rich Designs and Read-Write-Compute Pages with a Relational Layer for Web Content

Magical Source Code Highlighting

2013

Data quickie: Wordpress themes are getting more complicated over time

Flexible data formats are used more flexibly

Eval in Template Languages Considered Harmful

2012

Democracy has a Built in Pressure Release Valve

NICAR, from a Programmer's Eyes

2011

A new generation of nuclear power opponents?

Join us for a Crowdsourcing Community Service Hackathon this weekend

2010

The Semantic Web needs a MySQL

The Toothpaste Problem and Choosing the Right Data to Publish

Should the President have an Internet Kill Switch?

Browser Plugins Considered Dangerous

Facebook's Product is You

Ten Rules for Radicals

Time Travel on the World Wide Web

The Scale of Things, from Yahoo!'s Perspective

Newspapers are Dead. Long Live News!

Data Driven Computer Science

2009

How Safari and Firefox handle HTML 5 Manifest files

Will the Namespace Traffic Jam Kill RDFa in HTML5?

HTML's Three Competing Data Formats

2008

Introduction to The Art of Rails

2007

EJS Moving to Google Code

Code can be Funny

Code in Text

The Thing about Chapters One through Three

Abusing Javascript for Multiline Strings

Abstraction is Everything

Melodic Impact

Try Steamship!

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