isitchristmas.com
- Why is this happening?
- making a million people hang out for no reason since 2007
- 2013 in words and pictures
- 2012 photos, tech writeup
- code for website and flags
/unitedstates
- Open collaboration on public domain tools and data about the US government.
- a modern approach to open data
- part of my work at Sunlight, in collaboration with GovTrack.us and the New York Times
- the people and work of Congress
- thin knife for legal citations
- a vision of data without licenses
- and many other projects
@FISACourt
- Tracking the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in real time.
- a twitter feed of Court action
- a robot sidekick for human journalism
- held fast by open source glue
- drawing is of the FISA Court's physical door, by Lindsay Young
Scout
- Search engine and email alerts for Congress, regulations, government reports, and state legislation.
- project of the Sunlight Foundation
- built atop a bevy of other open data projects
- piece on Scout I wrote for Cornell
- a talk I gave at the Arizona ALL
JSON to CSV Converter
A simple, quick website that converts most common JSON files to a reasonable CSV equivalent. Made originally to support a workshop at Open Data Day DC 2014, and then developed a bit further to really try to make JSON as simple as a spreadsheet.
Congress for Android
A live pocket directory for the people and work of Congress, for Android phones. I built it for the Sunlight Foundation in 2009 to try my hand at Android development, and over time it's become modestly successful and quite well reviewed. Sunlight has since produced a high quality Congress app for iOS, based initially on the Android version.
Oh No My Money
Retired. An experiment at violating money taboos by displaying my checking, savings, credit, and loan balances online, from 2008-2010. It even drew sweet graphs of my net worth over time. It was updated automatically every night through Wesabe, until they shut down. The site did get one piece of coverage before it died: the New York Times Magazine included me in a profile of 3 people dealing with their net worth online.
everyoneishereinthefuture.com
My part in archiving _why's stuff is to preserve a couple of animations he made to open his presentations at conferences, called Everyone is Here in the Future. They're some of my favorite things.