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jpt @jpt.sh · 28/09/2026

If you'd like to be a part of a small community of people interested in sharing knowledge & resources around public interest tech projects we now have a short form you can fill out to request access: tally.so/r/5BgOLZ

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civic.garden interest form

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/05/2026

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

"That link is not there yet, right?" he said. think maybe implicitly there is more that is getting shipped, but it's very hard to draw a line between one of those stats and, 'Okay, now we're actually producing 25% more useful consumer features."
He said that the trade-off costs from Al are harder to justify because he can't draw a direct link. Earlier this month, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an earnings call that Uber was slowing hiring to counter its investments in AI.

The comment led to what he described as a
"head-exploding moment," sparking discussions about AI token consumption within the company and the trade-offs it creates, such as on head count.
He said that, based on talks with Uber's senior engineering leaders, he realized higher token usage did not translate into a proportional increase in useful consumer features.

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jpt @jpt.sh · 24/05/2026

A question I get from students a lot that I'm not sure I can answer: Is there a place where people are discussing building sustainable/public interest/civic projects? As in talking about the challenges they face/sharing tips/recommendations, promoting their work to others to get extra eyes on WIP?

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jpt @jpt.sh · 25/02/2026

People once lauded for their desire to use technology to improve people's lives are now openly & persistently advocating for decimating public sector unions as well as replacing workers with generative AI trained on stolen works.

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bees @bees.free · 31/01/2026

an evollution of 27, organoids now have DNA & absorb some mutations when eating h9.bees.free/genuary26/29... #genuary #genuary2026 #genuary29

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bees @bees.free · 31/01/2026

Genuary 30: oops all bugs, a collection of interesting glitches that accumulated throughout the month while working on other sketches #genuary #genuary2026 #genuary30

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bees @bees.free · 01/02/2026

At the beginning of the month I thought the library was close to ready, but spending all month with it made me realize there are 2-3 big things I want to do before stabilizing the API. I also added a lot of features as I went, but most are poorly documented.

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bees @bees.free · 01/02/2026

It's been fun sharing these & seeing everyone else's all month! my HTML-only #genuary28 will be the polished/updated version of the site & docs for honeycombs/h9.js, the library I've been using for all of these, but that'll probably be in a few weeks.

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bees @bees.free · 01/02/2026

most of the work on this one was an experimental WebGL renderer backend, honeycombs/h9.js now has SVG, canvas, and WebGL renderers. h9.bees.free/genuary26/31... felt fitting to demonstrate w/ a return to one shape one color.

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jpt @jpt.sh · 24/01/2026

There is no path forward for democracy in this country where ICE is intact and those that led, funded, and supported it walk free. Dismantling this before it gets worse needs to be the highest priority.

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bees @bees.free · 10/01/2026

#genuary #genuary2026 #genuary9 hexagonal cellular automata with a circular food chain definitely more fun to watch the interactive than the gif: h9.bees.free/genuary26/09...

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bees @bees.free · 10/01/2026

#genuary #genuary2026 #genuary10 infinite cycles of death & rebirth This one was really short since h9 already had a polar coordinate reference system built in. 7 variables and a 2-line draw loop! Code here: h9.bees.free/genuary26/10...

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bees @bees.free · 12/01/2026

so many ways of being, but none of them seem to fit Prompt: Only Cubes #genuary12 #genuary2026 #genuary Interactive Code: h9.bees.free/genuary26/12...

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bees @bees.free · 19/01/2026

h9.bees.free/genuary26/19... #genuary19 #genuary #genuary2026

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bees @bees.free · 04/01/2026

#genuary2026 #genuary #genuary4 I'm using these prompts to iterate on h9, which is a mostly-SVG-based geometric drawing tool, so this one posed an interesting challenge. I decided I'd take the opportunity to try out my hardly-used Canvas backend and adapted a vector sketch to this pixelated look

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bees @bees.free · 04/01/2026

Third prompt, fibonacci -- tried to use it for every decision in this quick animation: color, rotation, length, arcDegrees & speed interactive source here: h9.bees.free/genuary26/03... #genuary #genuary2026 #genuary3

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bees @bees.free · 04/01/2026

Today's prompt was the 12 principles of animation. Focusing on slow-in/slow-out and bounce/stretch, I added some basic keyframe code to the variable system to get a nice bounce. The ellipse code was fortunately already done #genuary2 #genuary #genuary2026 h9.bees.free/genuary26/02...

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bees @bees.free · 04/01/2026

I'm using Genuary to kick the tires/build features on an experimental drawing library I've been working on. Today's prompt: One color, one shape. (hexagons of course!) #genuary1 #genuary #genuary2026 h9.bees.free/genuary26/01...

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jpt @jpt.sh · 22/11/2025

I wanted something I could recommend to people that just want a reliable way to host static websites with minimal fuss & cost. I wound up writing a script to sync your static site with a low-cost CDN jpt.sh/posts/host-s... I'm now using it to host ~15 static websites for $1/mo without Google/MS/CF

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trifold: painless static website hosting via CDN

I just want to host some HTML… For years I hosted my static sites on AWS CloudFront, but about six years ago, in an effort to move away from Amazon, I wound up on Netlify. Netlify has mostly been grea...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Both of the co-founders of Turning Point USA died from things that were preventable, but which they mocked and urged this nation to ignore. Bill Montgomery was killed in 2020 by COVID and Charlie Kirk was killed in 2025 by gun violence.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The protest march in Chicago - the second in only four days staged in opposition to the Trump admin's targeteting of Chicagoland for an immigration blitz - has stepped off from Congress Plaza and is heading north down Michigan Avenue. Hundreds of people have joined the march so far.

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jpt @jpt.sh · 08/09/2025

If you're someone that uses the default terminal setup that came with your OS & wonder why anyone *prefers* the terminal, here's the first post in a series on learning to like your terminal (through installing better software for it) www.jpt.sh/posts/like-y...

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learn to like your terminal, part 1

learn to like your terminal I’ve met a lot of people that have learned to use the terminal just enough for it to remain a perpetually frustrating experience for them. There’s a lot to love about termi...

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/08/2025

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

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DumpTruck 🍑 Decider Alice @sailormoondamus.gobirds.online · 26/08/2025

Disable ChatGPT this fucking instant. Destroy it. JFC.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13/07/2025

You're so close dude. You are nearly there

r/vibecoding
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Why does Al complicate things so much?
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I am currently using Claude Code to help me develop a mobile app (I have no swift experience) while I handle the backend. Every time I ask it to build me a new feature with plan mode, it comes up with an elaborate scheme that involves re-writing things, building new views, models, etc.
Even without knowing swift / Apple development, I can see that half the stuff it is proposing is unnecessarily complex.
For example, I am currently implementing pagination for data in the analytics page of my app. I say:
"The skeleton animation works good on the page when awaiting the initial data fetch, but for pagination it just deletes the info cards and then replaces them with the new data (looks bad). I just want to have the existing skeletons show up for that async fetch period"
To this Claude tried to get a pagination manager with an integrated date period and search function that also manages the loading state and animations. All it needed to do was reuse the existing code it wrote that manages the skeletons animations and have them display during the fetch.
This happens so much it is frustrating (even after adding multiple lines in claude.md about overcomplication).

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jpt @jpt.sh · 07/07/2025

I appreciate how short and to this point this is— and mostly sums up how GenAI makes me feel. www.tbray.org/ongoing/When... There’s also something particular about teaching in the current era of course, but I find the (direct) pressure is coming from companies mostly, not the students. Ask why.

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The Real GenAI Issue

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jpt @jpt.sh · 29/06/2025

If you are working on/considering a project that needs to do point-in-polygon lookup (e.g. what congressional district am I in?) I've been prototyping a tiny library to do this without a PostGIS server as quickly as possible. (Standalone rust binary with pre-loaded shapefiles.)

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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 22/06/2025

not the immediate issue, but no country will ever negotiate a stop to their nuclear program again. not after libya, not after today.

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 04/06/2025

www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

I will never forgive these people for what they’ve done to the computer, and the more I learn about both their intentions and actions the more certain I am that they are unrepentant and that their greed will never be sated. I have watched them take the things that made me human — social networking, digital communities, apps, and the other connecting fabric of our digital lives — and turned them into devices of torture, profitable mechanisms of abuse, and find it disgusting how many reporters seem to believe it's their responsibility to thank them and explain why it's good this is happening to their readers.

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jpt @jpt.sh · 26/04/2025

I'm working with a few people hoping to put together a small cohort of (paid) civic/public interest fellowships this summer. If you work with an org that could use the help, or might be interested in mentoring, please take a few minutes to fill out this form: forms.gle/VcVbNULxaAgk... #civictech

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Summer of Civic Hacking Interest Form

We are hoping to put together a small coalition of organizations to take on fellows to work on public-facing civic technology projects. This short survey will help us evaluate if we'll be able to do s...

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 20/03/2025

idea for a sticker: this machine serves fascists potential uses I would never officially endorse: - put it on a Tesla - put it on surveillance tech - put it on your computer probably, it depends who you are, let’s have a conversation

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jpt @jpt.sh · 09/03/2025

I just finished teaching a course for the third year. I am trying something new & putting my Python course notes out under a CC license for anyone that might find them useful: www.jpt.sh/posts/map-py... These focus on using Python to work with real-world data, with a splash of general CS topics

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map(python, data)

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jpt @jpt.sh · 16/02/2025

I've been thinking a lot about what this moment means for civic tech and put some thoughts together here: www.jpt.sh/posts/third-... tl;dr is that I'd really like to start having conversations with others that are thinking about what needs to be build and how we're going to pay for it

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Civic Tech's Third Wave

I’ve spent nearly twenty years working in civic tech. It feels like with everything going on right now, I should have something to say… This is my attempt to put into words what’s been swirling around...

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Reminder that ipums.org has all the acs, census, CPS, NHIS, MEPS, and so much more. Bonus that it’s cleaned and harmonized in ways that make these data really easy to use in practice.

ipums.org

Homepage | IPUMS

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 21/01/2025

having succeeded in purchasing positions of influence inside the White House, the billionaires and tech VCs have now set their sights back on Wikipedia

Chamath Palihapitiya

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Wikipedia lies.

Mainstream media lies.

They will contort the truth to make you believe in a bogeyman. In falling for it, you’re giving up your God given ability to think for yourself.

Shaun Maguire
@shaunmmaguire
Wikipedia has been ideologically captured for years

It's important that this is finally coming to light

The most extreme bias is probably against Israel

Foundation AI models are being trained on this biased data as if it's ground truth

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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Defund Wikipedia until balance is restored!

Elon Musk

@elonmusk
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Since legacy media propaganda is considered a “valid” source by Wikipedia, it naturally simply becomes an extension of legacy media propaganda!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Republicans on the NC Supreme Court just blocked certification of a Democratic justice's election win. Her GOP opponent is trying to throw out 60,000 ballots cast in November, citing debunked far-right legal theories. This assault on democracy should be a national scandal.

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'This Should Make Your Blood Boil': Top NC Court Blocks Certification of Democratic Justice's Win | Common Dreams

Republicans on the North Carolina Supreme Court are under fire for blocking certification of incumbent Democratic Justice Allison Riggs' November victory to review GOP challenger Jefferson Griffin's…

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jpt @jpt.sh · 07/01/2025

I've decided to try being more intentional about sharing my course notes for the #python course I'm teaching this quarter. A few people had told me they'd found the older version that they found on GitHub useful, so I figured I'd mention it.

map-python-data.netlify.app

map(python, data)

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sam @samthielman.com · 05/01/2025

AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re- BEASTIES: MORSE AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of Beasties: COURSE MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy BEASTIES: MOOCHER MCA: We’re Christmas Past MIKE D: Christmas Present BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Ann Telnaes, who has worked at The Washington Post as an editorial cartoonist since 2008, says her cartoon criticizing billions currying favor with Trump was spiked — and now she has quit the paper

anntelnaes.substack.com

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post

Democracy can't function without a free press

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Doing my annual check in on the state of the new years glasses industry and things are looking rough out there

Google image search results for novelty 2025 new years glasses

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Joe Biden lost the election almost two months ago but he’s still calling himself President and living in the White House … and no one even complains! I guess Americans are fine with living under the iron fist of “Dictator Joe” 🤷‍♂️

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