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Tom MacWright

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Recently: Cycling and Autumn

2024-11-03

2024-10-01

2024-09-05

2024-08-01

Reverse engineering a day’s worth of websites

2024-07-30

Obsidian Freeform

2024-06-02

2024-06-01

2024-05-01

2024-04-02

2024-03-29

2024-03-01

2024-02-01

Work hard and take everything really seriously

2024-01-28

Placemark is now open source

2024-01-19

2023-12-28

2023-12-21

2023-12-01

Placemark is going open source and shutting down

2023-11-13

2023-11-10

2023-11-01

Rendering Tidbyt graphics in Rust

2023-10-29

2023-10-01

Masked email is a killer feature for Fastmail

2023-09-24

Playing with bikeshare data, part one

2023-09-17

2023-09-01

Open charter companies and relicensing

2023-08-29

2023-08-01

2023-07-03

2023-06-01

The one about AI

2023-04-15

2023-04-01

2023-03-18

2023-03-03

2023-02-01

2023-01-28

2023-01-27

2023-01-03

My favorite books of 2022

2022-12-27

Playing with ActivityPub

2022-12-09

2022-12-01

Web technology optimism hour

2022-11-18

2022-11-01

2022-10-03

2022-09-15

2022-09-14

2022-09-09

2022-09-01

2022-08-01

2022-07-11

Lumina: a review

2022-07-07

2022-07-01

2022-06-01

Are new geospatial formats useful (to me?)

2022-05-30

2022-05-01

Hivemapper impressions

2022-04-16

2022-03-29

Tidbyt: a review

2022-03-11

Using files with browsers, in reality

2022-03-04

Indie bookshelves

2022-02-24

Development notes

2022-02-04

2022-02-01

A semblance of understanding

2022-01-10

2022-01-02

Sharing in the presence of computers and corporations

2021-12-07

2021-12-01

In defense of verification

2021-11-19

2021-10-01

2021-09-02

2021-08-01

Hacking is the opposite of marketing

2021-07-24

Two Wishes for Dev Tooling

2021-07-05

2021-07-01

You can now buy this theme

2021-06-11

2021-06-01

Recently - New York

2021-05-02

The return of fancy tools

2021-03-16

Vendor by default

2021-03-11

Immutable approaches

2021-03-05

2021-03-03

One way to represent things

2021-02-23

A year of Rails

2021-02-18

Picking better names for variables, functions, and projects

2021-02-17

2021-02-01

Tom Rates Hills: Tank Hill

2021-01-22

2021-01-18

Rust is a hard way to make a web API

2021-01-15

2021-01-01

It's better to be naive than jaded

2020-12-27

The new reading stack

2020-12-24

Review: Keyboardio Atreus

2020-12-12

Sharrows, the bicycle infrastructure that doesn’t work and nobody wants

2020-12-04

2020-12-01

Monetization experiments on this website

2020-11-15

2020-11-01

If not SPAs, What?

2020-10-28

Tom Rates Hills: Holly Park

2020-10-12

Tom Rates Hills: Mount Sutro

2020-10-06

2020-10-01

2020-09-01

A clean start for the web

2020-08-22

2020-08-01

2020-07-01

2020-06-21

2020-06-01

Second-guessing the modern web

2020-05-10

2020-05-02

2020-05-01

2020-04-26

2020-04-01

2020-03-29

2020-03-22

2020-03-17

2020-03-01

Math keeps changing

2020-02-14

2020-02-01

Prepper-style music hoarding

2020-01-27

Tom Rates Hills: Kite Hill

2019-12-21

2019-12-01

Something is wrong with computers

2019-11-15

2019-10-01

2019-09-02

2019-08-30

Finishing side projects

2019-08-25

Tom Rates Hills: Billy Goat Hill

2019-08-12

2019-08-01

Beware the ethical car

2019-07-27

2019-07-20

2019-07-02

2019-07-01

2019-06-08

2019-06-03

Dear map people

2019-05-27

Elizabeth Warren

2019-05-16

2019-05-12

2019-04-29

Accessibility: buttons

2019-04-06

2019-04-03

Tom Rates Hills: Bernal Heights

2019-04-02

Accessibility: Color contrast is a problem

2019-03-30

How to maintain a bunch of open source projects

2019-03-28

2019-03-01

2019-02-28

A way to do CSS for applications

2019-02-09

2019-02-06

2019-02-02

2019-01-10

Shiny stuff in the pipeline

2019-01-08

Stumbling blocks on the way to web performance

2019-01-05

2019-01-02

2019-01-01

2018-12-05

Writing a small module in 2018

2018-11-26

Tom Rates Hills: Mount Olympus

2018-11-24

2018-11-11

You probably don't mean simplistic

2018-11-09

2018-11-01

Tom Rates Hills: Twin Peaks

2018-10-15

D12 - a prototype and documentation braindump

2018-10-07

Tom Rates Hills: Corona Heights

2018-09-04

2018-09-02

Tom Rates Hills: Buena Vista

2018-08-29

2018-08-28

2018-08-04

Permit me to convince you to get a library card

2018-07-27

2018-07-07

2018-06-19

How and why I use (neo)vim

2018-06-17

2018-06-03

Ethics are not enough

2018-05-10

2018-05-01

The simplicity of dropping Google in 2018

2018-04-26

How and why I illustrate

2018-04-11

The other kind of privacy

2018-04-09

2018-04-02

Remember the winter

2018-02-25

Advice to the newish programmer

2018-02-08

Quick thoughts: on the introduction of technology

2018-02-04

2018-02-03

Box breathing box

2018-01-05

2017-12-22

Owning my reading log

2017-12-11

2017-12-03

2017-11-24

On font fallbacks and failures

2017-11-18

2017-11-05

Carrying a camera

2017-11-03

2017-10-28

Updates & fixes

2017-10-24

Denial of coevalness

2017-10-23

2017-10-01

2017-09-04

2017-09-02

So you want to decentralize your website with IPFS

2017-08-09

2017-08-01

JavaScript wats, dissected

2017-07-29

So you want to decentralize your website

2017-07-20

2017-07-01

Software - what I use

2017-06-09

State of documentation.js

2017-06-06

2017-06-05

2017-06-04

Data science scratchpad

2017-06-01

The silliness of claiming rejected universal values

2017-05-25

Wah, a slightly higher level language for WebAssembly, with a reference compiler in Clojure

2017-05-20

My Mountain Dulcimer

2017-05-18

2017-05-11

2017-05-08

2017-05-06

How to try to not mansplain

2017-05-05

2017-05-04

2017-05-01

Trees, Elm, whiteboardable algorithms

2017-04-28

2017-04-21

ES6 Modules aren't just syntax sugar

2017-04-18

2017-04-13

2017-04-11

Working on documentation.js

2017-04-10

Simple Statistics 3

2017-04-06

Recently - next

2017-04-01

Map, a moderately better dictionary datastructure for JavaScript

2017-03-13

The bad kind of good kind of problem to have

2017-03-03

2017-03-02

2017-02-26

The case against open source by default

2017-02-05

2017-02-04

2017-01-28

Where my donation dollars are going

2016-12-30

What little I know about design

2016-12-28

Placebo privacy

2016-12-27

Harder than it looks: globs

2016-12-16

A mental model of what d3-queue does

2016-12-09

That time I was a jerk

2016-12-06

Polite Technology, Open Review

2016-12-04

Everything you need to know now about RFC 7946 GeoJSON

2016-11-07

2016-11-01

Animating d3 and React

2016-10-28

Mixing d3 and React

2016-10-11

Everything is fine with JavaScript

2016-10-04

The 180th Meridian

2016-09-26

Zapier as quantification bot

2016-09-18

2016-09-01

Penmanship and programming education

2016-08-28

Optimistic and Pessimistic Versioning

2016-08-23

2016-08-22

Restrictive programming

2016-08-21

2016-08-14

2016-08-02

2016-08-01

Write-only Twitter

2016-07-31

soapbox: longitude, latitude is the right way

2016-07-15

jscodeshift - the find and replace of your dreams

2016-07-12

Undo and redo in Elm

2016-07-09

New wave modularity with Lerna, monorepos, and npm organizations

2016-07-08

2016-07-03

That little world

2016-06-06

Falsehoods developers believe about GeoJSON

2016-06-05

Simple Statistics 2

2016-06-02

2016-06-01

My Electric Objects EO1

2016-05-31

I'm writing a book

2016-05-27

Printed running map

2016-05-17

Math as SVG for fast webpages

2016-05-09

This page weighs 15kb

2016-05-03

2016-05-02

Maps of Numbers

2016-05-01

Writing truthful documentation

2016-04-06

Simple lessons learned about building things

2016-04-02

2016-03-23

2016-03-20

2016-03-12

2016-03-01

Polite Technology

2016-02-19

Simple undo and redo in ClojureScript

2016-02-07

2016-02-01

I'm putting 40 projects up for adoption

2016-01-30

2016-01-25

documentation.js 4 beta

2016-01-24

Flow in Mapbox Studio

2016-01-05

2015-12-13

2015-12-01

documentation.js 3.0.0

2015-10-30

Groovy, Teen Mom's final album

2015-10-21

Redesigning Istanbul

2015-10-19

How we got here

2015-10-08

2015-10-02

I have used all the todo lists

2015-09-10

2015-09-06

Canvas animations on maps

2015-08-31

Practical ramda - functional programming examples

2015-08-27

Mapnik's Second Act

2015-08-25

2015-08-17

Simple undo in JavaScript with Immutable.js - the video

2015-08-17

Canvas Animation

2015-08-14

2015-08-06

2015-07-10

How Everyone Documents

2015-07-05

2015-07-03

2015-06-02

Simple undo in JavaScript with Immutable.js

2015-05-18

In defense of JSDoc

2015-05-15

2015-05-11

2015-05-02

More than you ever wanted to know about GeoJSON

2015-03-23

JavaScript Diagnosis

2015-03-10

2015-03-02

2015-02-28

beyond the for loop

2015-02-19

2015-02-02

Typing is not the problem

2015-01-19

2015-01-12

2015-01-11

2015-01-05

making juice with reduce / foldl

2015-01-03

2014-12-29

2014-12-12

Solving Earth Problems

2014-11-21

2014-11-17

RPL (2) - Terrarium

2014-11-10

2014-11-06

2014-11-05

2014-11-03

2014-10-14

2014-10-06

2014-10-01

2014-09-02

2014-08-11

2014-08-01

The Best Font for Programming: M+

2014-07-09

2014-07-01

2014-06-01

DC Code Hackathon: v2

2014-05-08

2014-04-18

2014-04-01

2014-03-18

TAP & Tape, the awesome way to test JavaScript

2014-03-11

2014-03-02

Simple Open Data

2014-02-14

2014-02-01

2014-01-06

2014-01-03

2013-12-01

2013-11-01

A Literate Raytracer

2013-10-29

Point and Shoot

2013-10-15

2013-10-01

2013-09-05

2013-09-03

Repetitive Process

2013-08-22

2013-08-20

2013-08-19

2013-08-01

2013-07-26

How Callbacks Work

2013-07-10

2013-07-07

2013-07-01

Just Enough SVG

2013-06-25

2013-06-14

2013-06-04

2013-05-09

A Sunday & An Open DC Code

2013-04-16

2013-04-04

2013-04-01

Math for Pictures

2013-03-05

2013-03-03

The Code: Access vs. Ownership

2013-02-22

You Cannot Have the DC Code

2013-02-20

Literate Jenks Natural Breaks and How The Idea Of Code is Lost

2013-02-18

State Law is Public Domain. What's Public Domain?

2013-02-14

How the Law is Compiled in Washington DC

2013-02-13

How The Law Is Written and Passed in Washington, DC

2013-02-11

2013-02-05

2013-02-01

Javascript Module Pattern, Memory, Closures

2013-01-22

Thinking Static

2013-01-08

2013-01-03

2013-01-02

2012-11-29

2012-11-21

Indexing and Searching Big Static Data

2012-11-14

Microsoft Excel and the Folk Tradition of Technology

2012-11-10

2012-11-02

GIS with Python, Shapely, and Fiona

2012-10-31

2012-10-30

2012-10-29

Open Source Projects, A Year On

2012-10-10

Mapping Protips

2012-10-06

Considering CSS

2012-10-03

2012-10-01

2012-09-20

k-means clustering

2012-09-16

2012-09-10

2012-09-06

2012-08-31

Running maps redux

2012-08-28

mapmote, a powertool for OpenStreetMap editing

2012-08-23

Interacting with Image Maps

2012-08-20

Days and Exports

2012-08-14

2012-08-13

Why Statistics?

2012-08-07

Stream Statistics

2012-08-04

2012-08-02

2012-07-04

Simple Statistics

2012-06-26

2012-06-19

Gravity Always Wins

2012-06-13

The Module Pattern, A Little More Detail

2012-06-04

How Web Maps Work

2012-05-15

2012-05-09

2012-05-02

Mean Tom - Teen Mom

2012-04-19

2012-04-17

2012-04-09

Project it Yourself

2012-03-12

2012-02-15

2012-02-09

2012-02-05

Rhumb Lines and Great Circles

2012-02-02

Understanding Map Projections

2012-01-27

Yell, a Yelp Exporter, and TOSes

2012-01-24

The Wary Guide to OpenLayers

2012-01-12

JS Security With Untrusted Code

2012-01-10

Longitude Over Time - The End of 2011

2012-01-02

2011-11-29

xtw - a menu bar item for taskwarrior

2011-11-22

2011-11-18

Odd Maps and How to Make them

2011-11-10

GIF Polyrhythms & GIF CLOCK

2011-11-07

2011-10-28

The Month - October 2011

2011-10-25

Client-Side Javascript Testing & happen

2011-10-18

Writing Javascript for Size

2011-10-06

Your Superfund - Voronoi Tesselations

2011-09-30

2011-09-18

2011-09-07

Easey, DND, and Updates

2011-08-23

whyday hacks - Sketch

2011-08-19

whyday hacks - Heckle

2011-08-19

2011-08-17

Fast, Hacky Geospatial Queries with UTFGrid

2011-08-10

Monthly Consumption August 2011

2011-08-02

A New Running Map

2011-07-28

The First Node DC Meetup

2011-07-20

2011-07-18

Monthly Consumption July 2011

2011-07-08

2011-07-04

Hello, Internet

2011-07-04