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Ed Gargan

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Web developer playing at being a journalist in the Guardian's visuals team 🗞️

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Ed Gargan @edg.foo · 23/09/2026
Definitely the most challenging piece I've worked on so far at the Guardian! Running circles around London filming buses and weary passengers was, weirdly, a highlight 🏃 🚌 Loved working alongside Gwyn Topham, @prinashah.bsky.social, Scarlet Pestell, and Ashley Kirk.
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London buses in decline? Why public transport in global cities is slowing to a crawl – visualised
As experts fear for future of UK capital’s bus network, some commuters are giving up entirely. London is not alone – with worrying implications for poorest in society
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Ana Lucía González @anlugonz.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Had most fun 🤓 mapping flight tracks and rasters on the Winkel Tripel projection 🗺️ (see how birds follow the surge of new green life!), working with top team @phoebeweston.bsky.social ky.social @prinashah.bsky.social @7091laps.bsky.social @edg.foo and +, talking to scientists & bird enthusiasts
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Ed Gargan @edg.foo · 02/10/2025
I've finally got around to giving my website a fresh coat of paint, along with a new blog post on the joys of using D3 + Svelte 5, now with interactive demos 🌞 I'm hoping to write more posts like this now I've got a good platform for them, watch this space. edg.foo/posts/svelte...
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Chart-building with D3 and Svelte 5
Svelte 5's rendering and reactivity features combine beautifully with D3's data tools. In this post, you'll see how.
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Ana Lucía González @anlugonz.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
A visual investigation of Victorian prisons and how their design still shapes the lives of incarcerated people www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
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31 of England’s prisons are Victorian. Do they work? – visual investigation
More than 30 jails still in use today were built by the Victorians. They house a quarter of the prison population. Here we explore how 19th century design is contributing to a 21st century crisis
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Seán Clarke @seanclarke.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
First results coming in now on our German election tracker: www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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Deno @deno.land · 04/02/2025
Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark by claiming Node.js — now it wants that ignored #FreeJavaScript deno.com/blog/deno-v-...
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Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js—now it wants that ignored
Oracle filed a motion to dismiss in response to Deno’s petition to cancel its “JavaScript” trademark. But instead of addressing the real issue—that JavaScript is an open standard with multiple indepen...
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Ed Gargan @edg.foo · 13/01/2025
My piece on Trump and the supreme court just went live 🥳, slowly learning how to do the journalism side of this job! www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Both houses and a supreme court supermajority: how Trump’s power compares historically
Trump’s second term will be marked by a rare level of influence in Congress and the highest court
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Ed Gargan @edg.foo · 25/12/2024
#gavinandstacey didn't need to do me like that with the photo freeze frame ending 🥲 Perfect finale, genuine.
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Ed Gargan @edg.foo · 17/12/2024
Why did I ever think Notion would be a sensible CMS for my blog? I need to stop getting so excited about free APIs in the tools I use. Time to bin the hundreds of lines of Notion-to-HTML code and rewrite my posts in MDX, as God intended.
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Ed Gargan @edg.foo · 17/11/2024
Wow @deno.land is such a breath of fresh air. Goodbye boilerplate templates, goodbye Vite config, goodbye `nodemon ts-node/register tsc --watch blah blah blah` 🌞
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Ed Gargan @edg.foo · 13/11/2024
www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...
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Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X
We will stop posting from our official editorial accounts on the platform, but X users can still share our articles
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Ed Gargan @edg.foo · 12/11/2024
I'm trying to learn mapshaper today and boy is this thing DENSE
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a man in a plaid shirt is opening a filing cabinet in an office .
Alt: A man opening a magic super-long filing cabinet, a clip from Bruce Almighty
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Ed Gargan @edg.foo · 06/11/2024
Well at least our trackers didn't catch fire (significantly). Here's the one I worked on by the way - first byline!! www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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US election 2024 results live: Donald Trump wins presidency, defeating Kamala Harris
Follow the latest results from across the US as Trump wins several states critical to electoral success
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Ed Gargan @edg.foo · 05/11/2024
About to begin my shift helping our US election tracker pages pull through the night! It's lovely that everyone's setting fireworks off for us 🥰
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