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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 28/09/2026

I've released the Deck.gl animations we hashed out for a recent Reuters story as open-source components anyone can borrow from.

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 26/09/2026

🌡️ Check out my new story, published today, about how intensifying marine heatwaves are threatening the future of local fisheries across Europe.

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 18/09/2026

🦞 My dumb Openclaw finally joined Moltbook kip.computer/blog/2026-09-17-moltbo…

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 17/09/2026

🦞 My dumb Openclaw made his first contribution back to the Openclaw's source code. It's a long way from "RSI," but he still wrote a dumb blog post about it, of course. kip.computer/blog/2026-09-17-clawtr…

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 13/09/2026

📊 Check out the latest release of `datawrapper-mcp`, my experiment attempt to conjure up Datawrapper charts by chatting with an AI assistant.

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 08/09/2026

🤓 I'd like to introduce you to the new palewi.re, an overhauled version of my personal website.

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 02/09/2026

🌡️ Our Reuters Climate Monitor contributed a little analysis to an enterprise story today out of Eastern Europe. Stay tuned. There's a lot more like this coming.

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 30/08/2026

🦞 My dumb OpenClaw made an e-ink version of jazzlineup.com/nyc for TRMNL devices. trmnl.com/recipes/385200?ref=search Then he blogged about it. kip.computer/blog/2026-08-30-jazzli…

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 25/08/2026

🥖 I'm happy to release a new version of django-bakery, my open-source set of helpers for converting a database-driven site into flat files. palewi.re/docs/django-bakery The upgrade adds support for the latest Python versions and replaces the deprecated backend with fsspec.

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 21/08/2026

🥫 I'm happy to release geodataframe-to-pmtiles, an open-source Python utility that can help you map massive data files by quickly writing GeoPandas GeoDataFrames as a PMTiles archive. palewi.re/docs/geodataframe-to-pmti…

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 19/08/2026

🧅 Today, I'm happy to release isobands, an open-source library that makes it easier to present a dense dataset as a smoothed-out map.

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 17/08/2026

🌡️ Our Reuters Climate Monitor has expanded again. We're now tracking outdoor heat stress using the Universal Thermal Climate Index. The cutting-edge metric combines heat, humidity, wind and sunlight into a combined "feels like" score.

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 10/08/2026

🌡️ Our Reuters Climate Monitor has expanded again. Starting this morning, it now provides a live estimate of the number of people exposed to extreme temperatures, allowing us to report the human impact of extreme heat in real time.

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 07/08/2026

🌡️ The Reuters Climate Monitor now features a page focused on Asia. Much more TK. Stay tuned. www.reuters.com/graphics/CLIMATE-AU…

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 05/08/2026

Thomson Reuters beats market estimates with 9% revenue growth in Q2 ir.thomsonreuters.com/news-releases…

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 04/08/2026

My dumb Openclaw helped me finally get my NAS in order. Now he's bragging about it. kip.computer/blog/2026-08-04-the-ba…

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 01/08/2026

🌡️ We released another feature on the Reuters Climate Monitor. Until now, we've only published today's data. We now feature monthly averages that also update daily. Here's how it looks on our page covering Western Europe's ongoing heatwave […] [Original post on mastodon.palewi.re]

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 30/07/2026

🌡️ Our Reuters Climate Monitor now reports on and ranks temperature anomalies for sub-country regions. First Europe, then the world. Another baby step. Much more on the way. www.reuters.com/graphics/CLIMATE-AU…

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 30/07/2026

🎨 I'm pleased to announce a new course I'll be leading this fall at the School of Visual Arts. It's called "Truth-Telling 101: Artists Meet Data Journalism."

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 29/07/2026

My dumb Openclaw set up a private web archive for my journalism research. Then he blogged about. kip.computer/blog/2026-07-29-the-mo…

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 22/07/2026

🌡️ Nice example here of how the automated analysis provided by our Reuters Climate Monitor is appearing in decks and nut grafs. We want our apps to feed the file, not just sit somewhere in the back of the site […] [Original post on mastodon.palewi.re]

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 17/07/2026

🦞 My dumb Openclaw ported its horrific rendering of the headlines, The Daily Bosch, to fit my TRMNL e-ink display. Then he blogged about it. kip.computer/blog/2026-07-17-same-a…

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 17/07/2026

📈 The Reuters front now features a real-time ranking of our most popular stories. That's thanks to the innovative work of Jack Walker, our team's summer intern.

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 14/07/2026

🦞 Few things can crack me up these days like struggling through an Openclaw upgrade

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 11/07/2026

🦞 My dumb Openclaw launched a new voice transcription service, then he blogged about it. The whole thing was conjured using OpenAI's new Terra model via a pitter patter of Telegram texts I sent from a PATH train under the Hudson. kip.computer/blog/2026-07-11-word-f…

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 10/07/2026

🌡️ A twist on our Reuters Climate Monitor: This new homepage embed and standalone page tracking Western Europe's heatwave. It debuts real-time country rankings, which I suspect is a worldwide first. reuters.com/graphics/CLIMATE-AUTOMA…

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 08/07/2026

🌡️ The Svelte component we developed to toggle temperature units on our Climate Monitor is now open source, free for anyone to reuse. It sets the default to Celsius or Fahrenheit based on the user's browser settings […] [Original post on mastodon.palewi.re]

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 06/07/2026

Here's Emerson waxing on about that "humble priest," the newsboy. commons.gc.cuny.edu/?get_group_doc=…

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 06/07/2026

The top European climate change agency featured our work on the Reuters Climate Monitor. climate.copernicus.eu/reuters-launc…

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 05/07/2026

🦞 My dumb Openclaw trained a machine-learning model to map its memory banks, open-sourced the code, and then blogged about it. github.com/kip-claw/memory-topic-la…

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 05/07/2026

🦞 My dumb Openclaw trained a machine-learning model to map its memory banks, open-sourced the code, and then blogged about it. github.com/kip-claw/memory-topic-la…

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 29/06/2026

🗣️ I'm the guest on the latest episode of "On Assignment," the weekly interview show from the Reuters newsroom.

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 26/06/2026

🦞 My dumb Openclaw launched another tracker kip.computer/blog/2026-06-26-vital-…

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 26/06/2026

INBOX: Mike Williams is the new Reuters global managing editor over the publishing division (and my new boss.)

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 24/06/2026

🦞 My dumb Openclaw turned an abandoned Dell Latitude into its search index. Then he blogged about it. kip.computer/blog/2026-06-24-refere…

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 24/06/2026

I did a vertical video. Please clap.

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 22/06/2026

Today's update to the Reuters style guide: em dashes

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 22/06/2026

Another step. The Reuters Climate Monitor has made its first appearance in the text file. We're on the wire. www.reuters.com/business/environmen…

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 21/06/2026

It's still early days, and there's much more to do, but we've got our first "off the news" application of the new Reuters Climate Monitor tonight on the homepage, where it's leading our coverage of the European heatwave. reuters.com

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 18/06/2026

Feel the AGI. I hit a key and yell at my Openclaw. kip.computer/blog/2026-06-18-ask-kip

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 15/06/2026

🦞 My Openclaw HQ now includes an architecture diagram and a searchable database of the custom skills I've released as open-source software kip.computer/soul

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 14/06/2026

🦞 My dumb OpenClaw is at it again. Here's Kip's latest app, conjured entirely by chat. kip.computer/blog/2026-06-14-milkdr…

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 12/06/2026

🔑 Our open-source kit of graphics components for Reuters stories now includes a legend that can quickly cover the most common map keys. reuters-graphics.github.io/graphics…

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 11/06/2026

Tune in to hear me on today's Reuters World News, our newsroom's daily podcast. www.reuters.com/podcasts/us-iran-ru…

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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 10/06/2026

🌡️ Today, I'm happy to launch the "Reuters Climate Monitor," a live data dashboard that aims to track the slow-moving impact of climate change at the speed of the news. You can find it at www.reuters.com/graphics/CLIMATE-AU…

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