ryanwold.net
Hi, I'm Ryan 👋
in Vacaville, California.
These are notes to myself.
Sorta like a sketchbook.
I consult on user-facing software at Civic Studio, designing tools to enable government to serve citizens better.
Optionally, support my extracurricular work at Open Collective, GitHub, or Patreon. Better yet, click around, use what I've made, and give me feedback!
Things I've created
Each of these projects involve civics or bitcoin.
Mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed.
What's on your mind?
Let's chat about
- Open-source software development. I write a lot of software using things others have built and I try to share back when possible. I prefer to work in the open.
- Bitcoin. Bitcoin is for everyone. I'm a fan of Bitcoin, the Scalable Version. I believe in Satoshi's Vision.
- Baseball. I grew up playing baseball. Walt Weiss era A's fan. Tim Lincecum era Giants fan. Nolan Ryan the greatest. New fan of Elly de La Cruz.
- Modular Architecture. Houses should work more like Lego blocks. Distributed fab labs in communities can support a paradigm where we can more readily evolve our homes.
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Active projects
Ongoing explorations.
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Adaptics · platonic thoughtshapes and non-geographical maps
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Afomi · Client work
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Bitblocks · Bitblocks is an indexer for the bsv blockchain.
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Commons · Gather around common interests.
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Entries · Basically my blog.
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Jurisdictional · A unified interface to government based on public data.
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Opentecture · Open-source modular housing
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Personal · Personal musings, notes, and projects
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Team Bitcoin · baseball, bitcoin, ball caps
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Workflow · Business Process Models, Business Process Management, BPMN
Notes to myself
Working through ideas and thoughts in the open.
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Roboflow · roboflow, computer vision, OCR, python, elixir
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Russell Thursday Call 2025-05-15 · walter russell
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"Agile" as a game · agile, game, kanban
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Public Comment - Vacaville City Council Strategic Planning Session - 2025 · public comment, vacaville, council, strategy
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Open aspirations · open source, civic, collaboration
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Truthful signals in a synthetic world · bitcoin, proof-of-work, economics
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On Coingeek · bitcoin, civics, collaboration
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Yasuhiko Genku Kimura · ethics, mastery,
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moving through stillness · poem, 2024
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Point of Sale · elixir, open source, fiverr, small business
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sCrypt · bitcoin
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Example onchain transactions · utxo, smart contracts
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Notes from chatting with Andric · notes, systems design
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Journey Maps and Service Blueprints aren't sufficient · bpmn, service design, lean, product
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The School of the Possible · liminal, sotp, collaboration
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Vacaville Ideas · open source, civic, participation
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Using tokens to fractionalize an asset · notes, property, tokenization
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Bitcoin Up - December 2023 · bitcoin, utility
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Inventorying an Open Source City · opendata, civictech, open source, accounting, finance
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Notes on Product Strategy · video, product management, strategy
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What assurances do you get with a bitcoin transaction and txid? · bitcoin, chatgpt
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MetaSV · bitcoin, api
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A Product Narrative · product management, narrative, marketing
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Public benefits via Tokens · public services, bitcoin, tokenization
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Book notes: Open Space Technology by Harrison Owen · booknotes, notes. open space
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Published in an article about Integrated Value Model · published, ivm, data modeling
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image: "Bitcoin is not crypto" · photo, bitcoin, vacaville, park,
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CX and saturating public services · civics, cx, performance, metrics, analytics,
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The Bitcoin Whitepaper for 2nd Grade Students · bitcoin, chatgpt, summary
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Signage · local business, advertising, signage, coffee, tv,
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Unblocking twitter accounts · x.com, twitter, javascript, scripting, social media,
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Bitconomy - a Bitcoin Economy · bitcoin, economics, finance,
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Compare and contrast bitcoin transactions, ordinals, and inscriptions · bitcoin, chatgpt,
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How to make the public meeting notes template active? · template, product, civics, public meetings,
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a format for the public to take meeting notes · template, public meetings,
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More public public services · public services, customer service,
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Blockchain as an event source · blockchain, DDD, service design, bitcoin, systems architecture, product design,
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Considerations for creating and maintaining a website · web design, website
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Notes on Solano County finances · public finance, solano county, california,
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How to parse a public agenda · public comment, public meeting, agenda, chat gpt,
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Vacaville City Council - Public Comment · public comment, vacaville,
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Understanding Unfunded Pension Liability · chatgpt, finance, opendata, pensions
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Inspiration · inspiration
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Thank you _unwriter · chatgpt, eventdriven, programming, bitcoin, bitcoinsv
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4 hypothetical scenarios if a top 20 US bank becomes insolvent on more than $150B of assets · chatgpt, finance, debt
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Working asynchronously · remotework, opensource, async,
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Hebbian associative learning · chatgpt, elixir, neural networks,
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A System to Mint NFTs · chatgpt, crypto, mint
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How to establish a public data registry · data, registry, chatgpt
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Typescript · typescript, programming
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Elixir Notes & Commands · ruby, elixir, code
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Open source business · open source, software, programming,
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Open vs Closed Markets · economics, markets, choice
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Tracking taxes · tax, citizens, systems, finance,
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Citizen Participation · civic, participation, engagement, CX
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Quantum key distribution (QKD) · qkd, quantum
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A general checklist for refactoring a CRUD system to an event-driven CQRS system · software patterns, crud, cqrs,
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Cardano Questions · crypto, cardano,
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Publishing a Ruby Jekyll website on Amazon S3 · s3, ruby, jekyll, github
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Bitcoin, for cities · civic, cities, bitcoin, municipal, finance, accounting
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Personal overflow of ideas · ideas, workflow, gtd, action,
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Packaging up a TypeScript library for use in a browser · javascript, elixir, esbuild, jungle bus,
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5 reasons why open sourcing data is economically viable · opensource, opendata, askhapi,
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People + Technology as the base unit in a socio-technical System, like an Organization · sociotechnical,systemsthinking,
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Creating and sending a bitcoin transaction · livebook, bitcoin, bsv, programming, tutorial,
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What's does the most transparent city look like? · transparency, city, open source, civics
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Personal preferences · user-centered design, bitcoin, preferences, profile, interaction,
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State, as a first level derivative · cqrs, event sourcing, video,
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Rainbits · nfts, ethereum, generativeart,
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Pixel Palettes BSV · color, design, nfts, bitcoin, bsv, relayx, generative,
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Research on governance · civic, research,
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Assessing a software product portfolio · product management, software, portfolio, measurement,
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fgieger's youtube channel · bitcoin, video
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Toward Strongly-typed Organizational Ontologies · ontology, product management, strategy, vocabulary,
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Integrated Value Model Poster at IAC 21 · visualization, ivm, strategy, mapping,
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Upgrading BitcoinSV Node 1.06 to 1.0.7.beta · docker, bitcoin, bitcoind
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Docker and BitcoinSV · devops, docker, bitcoinsv,
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BitcoinSV (BSV) Links and Resources · merkle trees, bitcoin, bsv, economics, philosophy
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A Unified Interface to Government · public, ux
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Systemic Dependencies for Public Service · government, visualization, d3
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Spacemouse Tinkercad · 3d, web, design
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Knowledge Work · gtd work
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Saving and Loading .json in Three.js · threejs, json
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Ideas are seeds. A startup is a garden. · ideas, startup, process
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MVC (Model View Controller) · MVC, design patterns
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Notes on Service Mapping · cx, servicedesign, maps
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Scripting Blender · 3d, blender, python
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Cloudshift - as Businesses move to the Cloud · notes cloud
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Reminders, when writing · writing
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Configuring a Mac · config
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Use Helium.js to identify Unused CSS · programming, tools, css, javascript
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Crafting Evolutionary Architecture · design, change, agile
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When using Rails, ensure uniqueness at the data-store level · rails, postgresql
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Blockchain Reactions · blockchain, notes, links
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How I use Trello · trello, tools, tips
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Navigating Current to Desired State · notes, templates
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On Accounting... · accounting, finance, notes
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User-centered Design Postcards from CfA · lean, cycles, strategy
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Organizational Physics · structure, movement, patterns
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Wardley Map Template · wardley-mapping, strategy
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Evolving your Cloud · cloud, process, growth, evolution
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The right data tool for the job · data, size
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Muni Bot · ruby, slack, transportation, bot
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Up and Running with Elixir · elixir, programming, experience-report
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This Site is Made With · meta, notes
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Personal Heads-up Display · quantified-self, gtd, heads-up-display
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Ordering Disorder · notes
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On the Interoperability of Systems · systems, research, interoperability, integration
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Playing with Google Speech API · google, api, audio-to-text
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What does agile feel like? · agile, process, howto
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AutoScreenshot, a Ruby .gem · design, automation, ruby, gem, tool
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Product/Business Fit · lean, organizational
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Reset Video Camera on Macbook · notes, cli, command, video
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Palmer Squares West Coast Tour · hiphop, liveshow
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Notes on JWTs - JSON Web Tokens · notes
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2x2 Framings · notes
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Remember the Future · thinking, problem-solving, strategy, method
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A Mountain of Work · work, process, GTD, quantified self, Trello
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Douglas Rushkoff at the Commonwealth Club · rushkoff, future, civic, equity, media
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San Francisco STiR Kickoff · civic, innovation, community
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Total Cost of Ownership · innovation-accounting, management, IT, internal
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Abstractions (atoms to galaxies) · notes
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Unity3d · unity3d, 3d
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Crowdsourcing Data · crowdsourcing, public, data
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Amazon AWS Notes · notes
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Postgres/Postgis on Amazon RDS · notes, snippets
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Interests, Graphed · d3, visualization, airtable
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What are the public costs to generate public revenue? · public-finance, opengov, opendata, taxes
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Thin Slices · mvp, ux, product-management
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Getting started with High Fidelity · vr, api, design
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Allow people to define solutions to their own problems · civic, collaboration, opensource, community
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Pitchdecks are about clear ideas · communication, idea
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Visual Documentation · workflow, documentation,
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Hilbert Curves · physics, video
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Prototyping with Airtable · airtable, database, spreadsheet, d3
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Trello Hacks - Migrating Card Activity comments to Cards · trello, github, gist
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Always-on Hack Night · sfbrigade, civic, process, diagram
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What is Service Design? · servicedesign, ux, workflow
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My experience onboarding to an in-flight software project · notes, onboarding, ux
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Build With, Not For · neo, community, opensource
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A Critique of Object-Oriented Ontologies · philosophy, programming
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Let's Encrypt with Pivotal CWF · ssl, devops, programming
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Notes on Pivotal Cloud Foundry · cloud, programming
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Moving a Heroku App to Pivotal Cloud Foundry · ruby, devops, deployment
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Visualizing Enrollment Data · visualization, data
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Anomalisa · kickstarter, design
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Graphing Email Activity over Time · visualization, email
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Using a custom database in Rails in a rake task · rails, notes, snippets
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how to relax - thich nhat hanh · booknotes
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Timelining · idea, time, programming
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Innovation Seeking Stability · notes
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Code Notes from when learning Map Reduce with MongoDB · notes, mongodb
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Code Reference Cheatsheet · notes, programming
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Handup · project, handup
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Experience Review: Upgrading Comcast X1 Box · ux, review, notes, comcast
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Looking back at 2015 · notes, retrospecting, grateful
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Migrating from Google Books to Goodreads · books, reading, api
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a Pomodoro Timer with Moment.js · programming, gtd, javascript
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Notes on Material Design · notes, design
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Developing for Television (Onward toward Ubiquitous Computing) · programming, tv
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Heroku's 1-click Deploy Button · heroku, programming, devops
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Ember.js + Firebase · ember, firebase, programming, patterns, prototyping
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Adding Ember to a Rails 4.2.5 app · rails, ember, howto
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Screenshots on Deploy - A Trail of Design · design, automation, heroku
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Handup - Give Directly · Handup
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Migrating from MySQL to PostgreSQL · ruby, rails, data
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Quiet Rails database logging · rails, logging
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Generate a Rails app without Turbolinks and Spring · rails, snippets
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Using Stripe for Payments · api, payments, ruby, javascript
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Social Media · research
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Building bigdata apps on AWS · bigdata
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Opentecture · architecture, building
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Dynamic Modeling · modeling, systems
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Hover DNS Configs for Heroku Apps · heroku, dns, deployment
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Atomic Design · design
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Take a Cue · cue, data, user-centric
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Personal Technologies · notes, gtd
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Teaching Methods · teaching, knowledge
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Philosophy · philosophy, notes
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Website Design Process · 2009
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Strategy · notes
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Open Government · notes
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Building a Slack Bot · slack, api, ruby
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Introspection, in Ruby · introspection, metaprogramming, ruby
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Civic Context · civic, data
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Paintings · art, paint
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Clouds · image, clouds
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Basic Sketch Slides · sketch3, template
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Screenshots of Data Portals · data-portal, open-data
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Playing with Isomer.js · javascript, isomorphic
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Exploring Interact.js · javascript, tangible
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Elements of a Website · html, programming, design
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Lean Startup Tools & Artifacts · list, lean-startup
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Communicating Design · design, process, notes,
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Slides from Exponential Orgs · oorg, slides
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Sequence Diagram Template · diagram, template
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Building Websites · programming
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Playing with Firebase · firebase, javascript
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Gmail Superstars with Gmail.gem · gmail, api, workflow, gtd
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Organizational and Product Source Code · diagram, agile-pics, ooorg
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Physical Constants and Eleven Dimensions · physics, videos, TED
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People Grouped By · people-group-by
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Ambient Documentation · ambient-documentation
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Agile.pics, or Graphvizzle 2.0 · graphviz, diagrams, agile.pics, visualization, collaboration, git, gist
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Styleguides · css, livedocs
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agile.pics · lean, mvp, github, visualization, graphviz, UML
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quote 71 ·
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Collaborative Legal Markup · collaboration, markup
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Ruby PDF Writer · ruby, visualization, pdf, work
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Student Lottery "App" · software, ajax, ruby
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Google Apps & Ruby/Rails · api, google, ruby, integration
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My Own Workflow (Automating Screenshots) · screenshots, workflow
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TaxTracker.org · taxes, opendata, finance, PublicServices
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Snapshots · photos, feature
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Design Your Information · quote
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Visualizing the effect of businesses in communities · visualization, finance, economics, local
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It'd be nice if... · nicetohave
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Churn - Chrome Browser Extension · javascript, extension, project
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Mapping data flow in test specs · graphviz
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DataDictionary.org · OOP, data
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GovStats · opendata, public, transparency, platform
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Customer Referral Platform · idea
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Notes on Learning Ember.js · notes, emberjs
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Slides: The Design Pipeline - or Continuous Design · agile, design, workflow
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Linking OSX Desktop folder to Dropbox · dropbox, data, lifehack, organization
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My Data Workflow · organization, workflow, quantifiedself
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Managing Photos · filemanagement
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Personal Clothes with 3d Printers · 3d, personalization, clothing
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My Digital Office · organization
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Craft · notes, haiku
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Kindle Highlights · kindle, api, webscraping, quantifiedself
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Visualizing Personal Finances · financial, visualization, D3, transparency, quantifiedself, feature
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Playing with Reactables · development
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Python Simple Server · howto
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Renaming Bash tabs in OSX · Bash, OSX
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Lean Practices · links
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HOWTO: Install OpenGeo GeoServer on Amazon EC2 · ec2, geospatial, opengeo
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Share: Erin Kissane - Little Big Systems · systemsthinking, ux, design, craft
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Delivering Applications for the Sensored Environment: Physical Web · sensors, physicalweb, wifi
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How to Stop Time, NY Times · time, management
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Quote - "Correctness" · quote
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Nag Design Notes · notes
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control your attention · quote
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Quote - Time Matters · fleetingthought
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Algorithmic Representation · idea
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GTD Workflow Diagram · image, gtd
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CPORD Status · gtd, javascript, browser-extension, gpt,
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Disable same-origin policy in Google Chrome during Development · programming, notes, development
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Squashing Commits · programming, note
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Apache Web Benchmarking Tool · programming, note, snippet
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Disabling remote .js warnings in Chrome Browser · programming, note
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HOWTO: create a middle dot in html · reference, html
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Building Wittle/Adaptics · ideas, organization, interaction, design, art
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Public Information means "Online" · data, nonprofit, opengov, project, transparency
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Startup · civic, nonprofit, startup
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Incorporated! · administration, incorporation, nonprofit
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from Apathy to Action · civic, county, dialogue, housing, solano
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Sunlight and Thunderstorms · dc, futureoutlook, opengov, sunlightfoundation
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Compiz Grid like Divvy for Mac · system notes
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O'Reilly Open Government · book notes
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Working toward Data Standards · data standards
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Scraper Wiki'ing · crowdsource, data, nokogiri, opendata, python, ruby, scraperwiki, scraping
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Pondering "Bounded Rationality" · book notes, systems
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DemocracyMap: Use Cases · jurisdictional, opendata, civictech,
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Low-res Government · blurb
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DMap Plan · plan
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839 nonprofits in Solano County · solano, nonprofits
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Neighborly, by e-Democracy.org · civic, edemocracy, hyperlocal, neighborly, opengov, participation
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notes from CodeForOakland · notes
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Code as Law · draft, legislation, policy
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Working with the US Code of Law · law, legislation, project, ruby, visualization
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Openness and New Economics · transparency, open, quality, longnow
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Nonprofit Indicators · civic, crowdfunding
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Nag · nag, quantifiedself
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Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church · webdesign, client, website, church
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Cleaning up Code: Removing Unnecessary Rails Helpers · programming, ruby, notes
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Githubbing · programming, github
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National Data Catalog · api, catalog, data, ruby, transparency
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Copying MySQL Data and/or Databases between machines · commands, data, mysql
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match.com for jobs · just an idea
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C++ Compilers on the 2nd Gen Macbook Air · homebrew, osx, programming, troubleshooting
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Installing ElasticSearch on OSX Lion · howto, elasticsearch
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Modular Architecture · architecture, design
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From Screen Designs to a Working Website · business processes
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Sketching-up a Desk · design, desk, furniture, sketchup
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BusPlease · idea
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Rails ActiveRecord: Polymorphism · notes, rails
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Google Task Shortcut · notes, shortcuts, google, tasks
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How to connect to a VMWare Windows host on OSX Lion · programming, note, vmware
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IE9 a:active state sticks · programming, notes
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Github's Git flow (not git-flow) · programming, git, workflow
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Git command: Delete a remote Git repository · programming, note
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Creating my first Ruby .gem · ruby, .gem
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Ruby Notes · ruby, notes
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Removing unnecessary Rails Helpers · ruby, rails