j soma @dangerscarf.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Notes from my #NICAR26 session on browser automation and scraping with Playwright! jsoma.github.io/workshop-bro... 240
j soma @dangerscarf.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Notes and code from my #NICAR26 talk on my FAVORITE pdf processing library (very not biased), Natural PDF jsoma.github.io/natural-pdf-... 120
j soma @dangerscarf.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Notes and code from my #NICAR26 talk: Analyzing Images and Video with AI! jsoma.github.io/workshop-ai-...jsoma.github.ioAnalyzing Images & Video with AI 151
j soma @dangerscarf.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Slides and notes for #NICAR26 No-Code AI pipelines with n8n! github.com/jsoma/worksh...github.comGitHub - jsoma/workshop-n8nContribute to jsoma/workshop-n8n development by creating an account on GitHub. 100
j soma @dangerscarf.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Here we go #NICAR26, a zillion and one sessions on the docket! Thurs: No-code AI pipelines with n8n Fri: Analyzing images/video with AI + Wrangling PDFs with Natural PDF Sat: Browser automation with Playwright + Ethical AI in Investigations Sun: Build your own AI Benchmark 2143
Reposted by j somaBrian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 05/02/2026With the awful WaPo layoffs and the state of journalism more broadly, if it's useful for any writers and reporters considering going indy, @molly.wiki, @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social of Aftermath, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social of 404 Media, @edzitron.com and me will do a little workshop next week. 13543170
Reposted by j somaCaitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here: 321187
Reposted by j somaWill Oremus @willoremus.com · 04/02/2026Whatever you think of the Washington Post at this moment, here's a chance to support the dedicated, hard-working journalists who were just laid off. If you have the means, your donation is most welcome. If you don't, a kind thought and maybe spreading the word to others is support enough 💙gofundme.comDonate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel SiegelOn Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund 14614442
j soma @dangerscarf.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Find out more about the AI newsroom workflow course at its awful sales-y site, and feel free to shoot me any questions you might have! littlecolumns.com/courses/ai-n...littlecolumns.comThe Automated Newsroom: Build AI Workflows That WorkA six-week, hands-on course teaching journalists how to design, test, and improve AI workflows. Learn evaluation, testing, and product thinking for newsroom automation. 000
j soma @dangerscarf.bsky.social · 30/10/2025The course itself is six weeks long, and while it does cost money (which is crazy strange for me!), there are steep geographic pricing discounts and coupon codes for close readers of the course site. 100
j soma @dangerscarf.bsky.social · 30/10/2025It's maybe like 35% a tech course, and a lot of the theory is stuff that seems simple once you've heard it: see what goes wrong, fix it, track it. That's it! Yes, we'll learn automation tools like n8n/ActivePieces and eval suites like Opik/Arize Phoenix, buuut they're just one part 100
j soma @dangerscarf.bsky.social · 30/10/2025This course is going to solve every step of those crises. How do you... - set up an AI pipeline? - measure if it's working? - iterate and improve it? - make sure you're solving a reader/reporter problem instead of just playing tech games? It isn't magic! It's easy!!!! 110
j soma @dangerscarf.bsky.social · 30/10/2025I'm running a six-week course in November on building and evaluating AI newsroom workflows! It's targeted at people who don't know where to start, or who build little prototypes and end up stumped about making them production-ready. littlecolumns.com/courses/ai-n...littlecolumns.comThe Automated Newsroom: Build AI Workflows That WorkA six-week, hands-on course teaching journalists how to design, test, and improve AI workflows. Learn evaluation, testing, and product thinking for newsroom automation. 121
j soma @dangerscarf.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Natural PDF v0.1.13 out – a handful of useful changes but my favorite is🗼page restructuring support! Grab sections and "flow" them together vertically or horizontally, making multi-column extraction infinitely easier than 24 hours ago. Details at jsoma.github.io/natural-pdf/... 010
j soma @dangerscarf.bsky.social · 16/05/2025it looks like someone has been going very hard on scans ONE MORE DAY OF ACCEPTING BAD PDF SUBMISSIONS 000
j soma @dangerscarf.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Woke up to ton of new non-English BAD PDF CONTEST submissions: 💥 Serbian! Romanian! Chinese! 💥 Mostly not scans, though, so I predict they'll easy-peasy to extract the info from. I want to have to train a custom OCR model!!! Someone submit a big scanned non-English PDF!!! 100
j soma @dangerscarf.bsky.social · 08/05/2025i love this giant-pdf-with-tiny-text submission, we need a smallest font size category 110
j soma @dangerscarf.bsky.social · 07/05/2025I am running a contest. It is about bad pdfs. It can make you independently wealthy (for immeasurably small measures of independent wealth) badpdfs.combadpdfs.comBad PDF ContestI'm looking for the most frustrating, painful, real-world PDFs. 342
j soma @dangerscarf.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Live colab demo/walkthrough here: colab.research.google.com/github/jsoma... 000
j soma @dangerscarf.bsky.social · 03/04/2025New release of 📝 Natural PDF 📝 A million and one table extraction/document layout/Q&A/quality of life improvements for all your PDF-processing needs jsoma.github.io/natural-pdf/ 140
Reposted by j somamolly taft @mollytaft.com · 24/03/2025the law clinic repping this student, CLEAR, is based out of CUNY.....once again the public city university absolutely flounces the ivy league when it comes to having a backbone and standing on actual principlesnytimes.comColumbia Student Hunted by ICE Sues to Prevent DeportationYunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who has lived in the U.S. since she was 7, participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Immigration agents visited residences looking for her. 151554357
j soma @dangerscarf.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Thank you – if only we could get a fix for the bug that prevents it from working 100%! 110
