Following the Money, Drawing the Map
New features in Democracy Direct: voting records, campaign finance data from the FEC, an interactive district map, and a searchable legislation index.
Anomalous Dispatches
Field notes from the edge of normal software engineering.
Free DevOps notifications with Discord and Github Actions
Because who wants to pay for slack?
The eyes have it; Closing the agentic design loop
How to give your agents the tools they need to do front-end work
I built a civic engagement platform because contacting your representatives shouldn't be this hard
A look inside the motivations and design behind Democracy Direct, an open source project to make civic engagement easy.