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Why influence mapping matters to journalism

S3plz – A polite, minimal interface for sending Python objects to/from Amazon S3

My favourite interview question (2006)

Doug McIlroy facts

The Exit Interview

The Problem with Praising Famous Scientists

Bedfellows: Python library for finding political action committee relationships

Mining data to understand Street Fighter's balance and meta-game

Seven Segment Optical Character Recognition

Content, Forever

Inside the Firewall: Tracking the News That China Blocks

First web scraper

Simple Project Planning for Sysadmins

Breaking Quake [pdf]

Kevin Montgomery, last remaining Valleywag writer, has left the site

Introduction to Data Analysis in R

She didn't fight filesharing of her novel; she decriminalized it

Credit for Reddit

What if journalists had story writing tools as powerful as those used by coders?

Hive: Open-source Crowdsourcing Framework