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Skora, Will

@skora.bsky.social
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Hi. web dev at your local public library. learning about the space around me; web dev, maps, geospatial, cleveland. You may know me from other places on the internet. (website: skorasaur.us) he/him

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Kevin Leeson @leeson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just announced: @noneck.org of @beta.nyc will be the keynote speaker at this year's @datadayscle.bsky.social conference on October 15. Visit www.datadayscle.org for the complete #DataDaysCLE schedule and to register.
datadayscle.org
Data Days Cleveland
Join us as we spark conversation and ideas, and build capacity in the space where data, information, and civic life intersect.
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Vanessa KW (she/they) 📍 DC @run-for-funner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
💥 We are BACK!!! 💥 Come join the official #CreativeCarto relaun this Sunday at 5pm EST, now with me plus 3 other hosts: @alyolli.bsky.social , @sarahbell.bsky.social , and @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social 💓💓 creativecarto.github.io #cartography #cartographer #gis #geospatial
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Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
in theory we understand that car companies shouldn't be the ones designing roads or enforcing traffic laws. but somehow when it comes to the small subset of technology that we call "tech", we lose our heads and pretend the technical knowledge of the product is the only consideration.
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Skora, Will @skora.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Cc @tkovach.bsky.social are y'all tracking at the city which new buildings are using electric for heat vs gas? (Via permits?)
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Skora, Will @skora.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
TFW someone today calls your GitHub comment containing a workaround/fix from a couple years ago as a "godsend (sic) github reply" 🙂‍↕️
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 27/08/2026
This is an actual clause in an actual software contract that is currently in force with the Commonwealth of Virginia.
19. BILLING FORMAT
Magnetic tape in IBM EBCDIC is the preferred electronic format.
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Skora, Will @skora.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Skora, Will @skora.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Are you an author who has books (or even a musician) at Cleveland public library and support the union going on strike? Sign this open letter!
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
400 library workers begin their strike Monday after endless months of trying to negotiate with management. Already the anti-union propaganda machine is calling the library workers entitled. The LIBRARY workers. You don't staff the desk at the free stuff store because you're greedy.
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Emily @librarymet.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If you are an anti-AI author, I am begging you to go to your local library’s board meeting and plead with them to not incorporate AI in their day-to-day operations. Because it’s happening and it’s gonna hurt staff, it’s gonna hurt the public, it’s gonna hurt every creative person it steals from.
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Skora, Will @skora.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Looking through old matchbooks and found this gem advertising courses on #COBOL lucrative career path
Cover of matchbook with a caption stating "are you qualified to answer this ad? You can be!" Above a picture of newspaper job ad stating "computer programmer must have background in 260 cobol. Fringe benefits. Salary open" Matchbook advertising "want a bright future career?" University computing Total concept course in computer programming is now offered in your city at the academy of computer technology
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737 max [spooky] @bluebookvalue.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
traffic cameras are good but if advocates won’t engage with the notion that there are select groups who have used their proximity to power (cops and families of cops) to avoid being subjected to them the same standard as everyone else, they won’t get what they expect out of the solution
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Kevin Leeson @leeson.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
There's just one week left to submit session proposals for this year's @datadayscle.bsky.social conference. Get your ideas in by Friday, August 14.
datadayscle.org
Data Days Cleveland
The 7th annual Data Days CLE! Join us as we spark conversation and ideas, and build capacity in the space where data, information, and civic life intersect.
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"Research databases are not preserved. There is no system in place in the UK (or anywhere else, so far as I know) to ensure that research outputs are officially preserved in perpetuity, as though they were books, when they are in the form of a database. " lukemckernan.com/2026/06/28/l...
lukemckernan.com
Lost resources
To lose one database is a misfortune; to lose four feels like a conspiracy. Recently three online databases and one audiovisual digital archive with underlying database, on each of which I worked f…
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 03/08/2026
(people would pay $10 more for a frying pan but they can't tell if the +$10 pan is really $10 better so they don't and companies stop producing them)
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
People want quality - what's missing is trustworthiness. It's just not rational to pay the premium for quality when the risk of not getting it is so high. Deregulation, regulatory capture, turnover etc have created a free-to-stab-you-in-the-back market where you can't trust anything anyone says. 🤷
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Joe Germuska @joe.germuska.com · 02/08/2026
TIL among the popular lexicon that inspired college mascots like Ohio Buckeyes, Indiana Hoosiers and Wisconsin Badgers we had Illinois Suckers and Missouri Pukes h/t @barrypopik.bsky.social barrypopik.com/blog/puke_st... www.northernpublicradio.org/illinois/202... www.loc.gov/pictures/res...
Detail of a printed map of the US from the 19th century showing Midwestern states. Each state has a nickname and an illustration of an animal, almost all pigs.

The states shown, with their nicknames:
Minnesota gopher
Wisconsin badger
Michigan wolverine
Iowa hawkeye
Illinois sucker
Indiana hoosier
Ohio buckeye
Missouri puke
Kentucky corn cracker
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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I love AQS and have been using it for years, but I need someone to build out a better air quality data tool like cli-MATE or SERCC's Climate Perspectives took that allows you to run more complex queries of air pollution data. I shouldn't have to download and combine CSVs for everything
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Skora, Will @skora.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
When i see today's air pollution/quality, after yesterday which was in the 500s and hazardous: i feel like youtu.be/qK5nqmHz0UA?... (a very niche millennial #arresteddevlopment reference)
Map of Cleveland air quality which is currently measured at PM2.5 value of 268, (very unhealthy)
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Jen Mapes @mapesgeog.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
My worlds collide! I appreciate that such a thing as "Ohio Bicycle Users Cartographic Society" once existed.
Folded map labeled Ohio Bicycle Users Map with some old stamps canceled in 1982 with a return address of Ohio Bicycle Users Cartographic Society.
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Skora, Will @skora.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Tfw you told your coworkers on monday you'll have the new feature ready for production on Wednesday and it's Friday & you're still stumped (but so close!) to having it ready.
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The Rooster @rooster.info · 10/07/2026
Cleveland-based freelancer Saint Claire has returned from a hiatus to shed more light on Pastor Aaron Phillips, one of the more comically corrupt figures in Cleveland politics who, of course, is a paid consultant to Mayor Résumé. This dispatch is free for all. www.rooster.info/p/aaron-phil...
rooster.info
Why is an ordained huckster advocating for mass surveillance in Cleveland?
Pastor Aaron Phillips and Mayor Justin Bibb have found common cause in Flock, a problematic and ineffective company routinely abused by police.
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Skora, Will @skora.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Giving off major #pinball aesthetics from the early 1980s, cc @blackmagickbar.com
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average scottythered @scottythered.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I'm in the midst of making high-resolution digital transfers of some vinyl records. Anyone want a crash course in making good-sounding LP rips?
my beloved technics SL-D3
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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 12/06/2026
There wouldn’t be a Summer Game map without Open Street Map! We’re happy to support this outstanding open system, which allows us to rapidly develop map interfaces without relying on corporate platforms that invisibly compromise our patron’s privacy.
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Skora, Will @skora.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I saw on bluesky in the last week or 2 of someone one in #chicago who built a bs bot for ghost/bunched busses and I didn't save the link :( anyone know what i'm talking about maybe @laurie-merrell.bsky.social ? #gtfs #pubtrans
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Skora, Will @skora.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Bullshit from the Cleveland clinic www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
justice.gov
Justice Department Secures Resolution with Cleveland Clinic to End Pediatric “Gender-Affirming Care”
Today, the Department of Justice announced another resolution arising from its ongoing national investigation into violations of federal law in connection with sex-rejecting procedures on minors (ofte...
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The Rooster @rooster.info · 28/05/2026
The most vindicated mayor in Ohio history.
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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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Skora, Will @skora.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I wonder about all of the times when my coworker or a patron can find certain information on the website & give up instead of emailing me/us.
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Skora, Will @skora.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Reason #363627 i dislike AI: being unable to determine whether a photograph or video is real is reason enough to not pursue this technology (I've said it before but bears repeating)
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Skora, Will @skora.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
my coworker, adam jaenke, photographs #Cleveland people & places; the collection is already becoming a nice snapshot & visual record of the city, #publiclibraries clevepl.github.io/nps/ the Images are stored in contentdm but its ux not good to browse, 1/?
clevepl.github.io
Cleveland Public Library's Neighborhood Photographic Survey | CPL's Neighborhood Photographic Survey
Cleveland Public Library's Pictures of Cleveland, Ohio
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/04/2026
NEW: We caught a site run by a buzzy PR firm ripping off local and national journalism at an almost incomprehensible scale -- it's like a fully automatic machine gun spraying bullets of pure plagiarism directly into the internet futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
A Prominent PR Firm Is Running a Fake News Site That’s Plagiarizing Original Journalism at Incredible Scale
A PR firm is running a strange AI-fueled plagiarism mill that's ripping off — and mangling — a huge amount of local and national reporting.
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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 08/04/2026
Y'all are gonna be real upset when you got drones circling your neighborhood all day and you don't know if it's delivering a burrito, taking pretty pictures, entertaining teen FPV enthusiasts, peeping on your children, snitching to the cops, or exploding a gas station.
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Connor Tapp @helluvabird.com · 06/04/2026
I mean this is the formulation that has delivered us the beautiful @rooster.info
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

But behind the scenes, Israeli officials have conveyed a more targeted message.

In private calls to local leaders across southern Lebanon, Israeli military officials have assured several Christian and Druse communities that they could remain in the evacuation zone. They have pressed them, however, to force out any Lebanese from neighboring Shiite Muslim communities who have sought refuge among them as Israeli bombardment flatten Shiite towns, according to local Christian, Druse and Shiite leaders who spoke to The New York Times. The Shiites make up the majority of southern Lebanon.
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Skora, Will @skora.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
New corollary: 'Nobody ever got fired for buying cloudflare'.
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Skora, Will @skora.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Might break down & finally write a thorough guide of how to write good link text for #accessibility (With plenty of examples!!!) for my coworkers. I don't want to criticize specific ppl, but so many online guides only include basic steps like "don't use click here" 1/? #webdev #a11y
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 24/03/2026
lots of orgs just need a little, tiny bit of custom software.
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Daniel Huffman @pinakographos.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
New tutorial post on the blog: "Urban Relativity," discussing my method for comparing city populations with their surroundings, which I sometimes use to help decide which cities to show on a map, and which to leave off. somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/u...
A screenshot of QGIS showing a monochrome raster, overlaid with yellow polygon outlines. The window for the zonal statistics tool can be seen.A monochrome raster that shows very fuzzy patches of white and grey. Atop it is a red outline of the state of Michigan.
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Skora, Will @skora.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Congratulations to the team at TRI-C for winning the 2026 national collegiate landscape competition www.landscapeprofessionals.org/NCLC/Final_R...
landscapeprofessionals.org
2026 Final Results | NCLC
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 19/03/2026
Y’all the Forward Libraries conference that @eviedc.bsky.social presented at this week wins the prize for best conference swag of all time, bar none. There was a jamming possum pin too but I dunno where it is
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Data Organization in Spreadsheets
Karl W. Broman
& Kara H. Woo
Pages 2-10 | Received 01 Jun 2017, Accepted author version posted online: 29 Sep 2017, Published online: 24 Apr 2018

    1. Introduction
    2. Be Consistent
    3. Choose Good Names for Things
    4. Write Dates as YYYY-MM-DD
    5. No Empty Cells
    6. Put Just One Thing in a Cell
    7. Make it a Rectangle
    8. Create a Data Dictionary
    9. No Calculations in the Raw Data Files
    10. Do Not Use Font Color or Highlighting as Data
    11. Make Backups
    12. Use Data Validation to Avoid Errors
    13. Save the Data in Plain Text Files

ABSTRACT

Spreadsheets are widely used software tools for data entry, storage, analysis, and visualization. Focusing on the data entry and storage aspects, this article offers practical recommendations for organizing spreadsheet data to reduce errors and ease later analyses. The basic principles are: be consistent, write dates like YYYY-MM-DD, do not leave any cells empty, put just one thing in a cell, organize the data as a single rectangle (with subjects as rows and variables as columns, and with a single header row), create a data dictionary, do not include calculations in the raw data files, do not use font color or highlighting as data, choose good names for things, make backups, use data validation to avoid data entry errors, and save the data in plain text files.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Many are the repositories whose digitized collections are held together by paper clips & twine paid for with an uncertain budget that may not get renewed in the next fiscal year because there’s long been a zeal to “just” digitize things but not to invest in their careful documentation & maintenance.
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Municipal Corporation @nikhunder.com · 11/03/2026
Celebrating 311 day by asking them to fix many things in my neighborhood
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Nick Castele @nickcastele.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Ohio police investigating deaths and hit-and-runs; U.S. postal inspectors investigating robberies; Albany, N.Y., police investigating indecent exposure. Here's who searched Cleveland's Flock license plate reader data in January: signalcleveland.org/cleveland-po...
signalcleveland.org
Who is searching Cleveland’s license plate reader photos?
Police from across Northeast Ohio and as far away as Texas searched the database of license plate reader images in January.
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