Nerd Alert 94: Rama Llama Ding Dong

HOT LINKS

What we're pondering this week.

Adam: Ever wish there was an easy way to test your entire color system for contrast and accessibility? Try Hex Naw.

Ben: What is a book? Using the essayist’s exploration of the nature of a book - what is a newspaper or a website?

Gabe: Ballot.fyi is a beautifully designed non-partisan voter guide for California’s upcoming state propositions. I especially love the clever iMessage debate graphics.

Jack: When Google bought DoubleClick in 2007, the company said privacy would be its “number one priority” and they wouldn’t combine data from your browsing history with identifying information they glean from other sources. Today, not so much. Here’s where you can change that for your Google account.

Julia: This visualization of European royal families was too gorgeous not to share. There’s also a detailed write-up of the data wrangling necessary for the project.

RC: Ulysses, the Mac writing app du jour, is now capable of publishing to any self-hosted WordPress install.

Inndy: It's time for a family reunion.

WE MADE A THING

Our projects, manifest

Check out the work we did for NPR Digital Services, where we helped them implement the share tools and related stories functionality from Largo.

If you'd like to work with us on improvements to your website or any other project you're planning, get in touch.

SHOUT OUT

Work we admire by our journalism peers

How did NPR provide live transcripts of the past three debates with embedded fact checks and annotations? Tyler Fisher of NPR Visuals provides a brief technical overview of the process, which involved a transcription partner, a Google Apps script, and a team of fact-checkers on a Google Doc. Exemplary work!

EVENTS

Come learn with us

Dec 14 - Did you hear? Our News Nerd Book Club meetings will now be held every other month. In December we'll be meeting and talking about Christopher Alexander's Notes on the Synthesis of Form. Read more about it here.

GET A JOB

Good jobs with good people

INN is hiring an operations manager.

Texas Tribune is hiring a data visuals developer.

Mississippi Today is hiring a product/web developer and designer.

Mother Jones is hiring a print designer and web developer.

Pew Research Center is looking for a web developer.

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