ryanwold.net
Hi, I'm Ryan 👋
These are mostly notes to myself.
Sorta like a sketchbook.
Click around. Get in touch.
Support my work at Qart, Open Collective, GitHub, Patreon.
Things I've created
Each of these projects involve civics or bitcoin.
Mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed.
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- Open-source software development. I write a lot of software using things others have built and I try to share back when possible. I think there are benefits to working 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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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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My Own Workflow (Automating Screenshots) · screenshots, workflow
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Google Apps & Ruby/Rails · api, google, ruby, integration
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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,
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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