2026-09-28 Ilmoonination Actually, we have a waning gibbous moon tonight. It was full two nights ago. But I need to a headline, so there ya go. How's fishing? Mainstream media continues to get sidestreamed. That's what I take from Ad Market Resumes Tepid …›
2026-09-27 Lemme know when one shows up Liblice II, the tallest structures in the Czech Republic, are about to come down. They carried the 1.5 million watt signal of Czech Radio Two until 2021 on 639 mHz. The cool thing is this (from that last link, translated) …›
2026-09-27 HT to Cory Doctorow for the original, which graced the cover of Enshittification. When a whole business category is fubar, and its members together exemplify enshittification better than each does alone, I suggest we speak of their collectivity as a f …›
2026-09-26 Lives and death When an adult in prime health dies "unexpectedly," and no cause is given (sometimes ever), you know what the assumption is. I don't want to use the word, but you know. It's what I thought when I heard that Chris Spat …›
2026-09-25 Turned out to be yummy Thirteen years ago, I wrote this defense of QR codes, which friends were calling "robot barf." …›
2026-09-22 Anu Bradford‘s book, The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World (Oxford, 2019), hardly exaggerates the EU’s influence. Many EU regulations have global reach, especially in respect to personal privacy. And for that we s …›
2026-09-19 They need more. Smithsonian Magazine: An Amateur Astronomer Using Google Maps Spotted a Strange Indentation. It Turned Out to Be a Meteorite Crater From 390 Million Years Ago. That one has been added to the excellent Impact Earth crater map. No doom …›
2026-09-19 For many years, I have despaired of ever saving the contents of my old blog (1999-2007), my writing for Linux Journal (1996-2019), and countless other articles, essays, and posts, published mostly on the Web—which looks and sounds like a permane …›
2026-09-19 The Moon has a new crater, called McGetchin. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera people have the story here. (That’s their before and after view.) NASA calls it a once-in-a-lifetime thing. Specifically, Officially named McGetc …›
2026-09-17 Illustration by Suvi SuitialaBy Tracie Lee (VP of Design, Growth & Platforms) & Pamela Glass (Director of Design, Growth)The mission of The New York Times is clear: We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Fulfilling that takes …›
2026-09-16 WBT’s three Blaw-Knox towers and nineteen-acre transmitter site, looking toward Uptown Charlotte. Google Earth imagery: Landsat/Copernicus. In the foreground are three towers standing on nineteen acres in Charlotte’s south side. They trans …›
2026-07-24 Social media is a powerful tool that can be used to bring people together, but it can also incite violence. Public figures wield social media as a weapon to influence people’s behaviors and beliefs. Twitter is particularly effective in inciting viole …›
2026-06-17 The age of AI chatbots is upon us, but news innovators have been experimenting with the idea of chatting to get your news for decades. Social media bots, accounts that post automatically, are an intriguing option to explore in an era of vibe-coding and …›
2026-06-08 How We Made a 15X15 Game Surface Feel at Home on AndriodIllustration by Lehel KovácsBy Shafik QuoraisheeWhat Is Crossplay?The New York Times Games team has been building daily puzzles for quite a while: Wordle, Spelling Bee, Connections, The Mini. T …›
2026-04-16 Bringing accessible, brand-consistent dark mode to life in The New York Times Games app through cross-platform design and engineering collaboration.Illustration by Allie SullbergBy Vanessa Johnson, Daniel Falokun, Michael Ingber and Oleksandr Zabiiako …›
2026-02-11 The Right Team for the Job: From Engineering to Product: A Superpower for Developer Platform StrategyIntroducing Danny Cassidy, Senior Technical Product Manager, Developer Productivity in Developer PlatformsIllustration by Claire MerchlinskyBy Geethu …›
2026-02-11 Illustration by Giacomo BagnaraBy Nikki Larson, Erica Vendetti and Michael BeachOur mission is simple: We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Accomplishing that mission requires each of us to build trust, seek out different perspecti …›
2026-01-13 How AI tools are helping our software engineers write better tests at scaleIllustration by Nick LittleBy Eric Chima and Leonardo QuixadáAt The New York Times, we’re all excited to build fresh new experiences that delight our users. Our product ma …›
2025-10-15 How five product design interns created an award-winning virtual museum experience for employeesIllustration by Lucas BurtinBy Nuoran Chen, Mina Chung, Frannie Ello, Christina Su, and Bella RinneA key element of The New York Times Product Design Inte …›
2025-09-25 How we designed a deceptively complex featureIllustration by Alessandro GottardoBy Joel Urena, Jenna Kim, Kenneth Ofosu, Shaka Clark, Raven Adaramola, Dylan CampbellAt least once a day, our players requested a Dark Mode feature for The New York Times …›
2025-07-22 The bold approach NYT Cooking used to define a strategy for recipe cards.Illustration by Ben DenzerBy Jayne LeeIn The New York Times Cooking, “cards,” or the containers that represent our content, are the first impression of our brand. They’re …›
2022-08-22 by Lylla Younes and Al Shaw ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigate …›
2022-04-21 by Ruth Talbot On Thursday, ProPublica added staff COVID-19 vaccination data to the Nursing Home Inspect project. The virus has killed more than 150,000 nursi …›
2021-05-14 by Andrea Suozzo On Friday, we updated our Nonprofit Explorer database in two big ways. First, we’ve added the ability to view key employees and officers right on an orga …›
2021-01-11 by Lisa Larson-Walker In the midst of Wednesday’s assault on the U.S. Capitol, Twitter user @thejuliacarter gave voice to the outrage many felt at the stark difference be …›
2020-10-02 by Frank Sharpe As a member of the team responsible for keeping ProPublica’s website online, there were times when I wished our site were static. Static sites have a simp …›
2020-03-06 It's hard to do truly custom interactives work within WordPress. INN Labs' Pym.js Embeds plugin is built to make it easier for your newsroom to embed your latest data project, with help from NPR's Pym.js library. Other solutions often involve p …›
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2019-12-13 by Rachel Glickhouse ProPublica’s Documenting Hate collaboration comes to a close next month after nearly three years. It brought together hundreds of newsrooms around th …›
2019-12-03 WordPress and Drupal are both powerful Content Management Systems (CMS’s) and two of the most popular ones in use today. There are several key differences between the two, and selecting the best fit has more to do with the specific goals an …›
2019-10-23 by Rachel Glickhouse For nearly three years, ProPublica’s Documenting Hate project has given newsrooms around the country access to a database of personal reports sent to …›
2019-10-04 With a great WordPress site comes great responsibility. WordPress offers journalists a distinguished platform to publish and distribute their content, but keeping your site safe and secure can seem like an overwhelming and daunting task. Luckily, …›
2019-09-11 by Rachel Glickhouse On Wednesday, we’re launching a beta test of a new software tool. It’s called Collaborate, and it makes it possible for multiple newsrooms to work …›
2019-08-30 There have been some changes since our last blog post around Pop Up best practices for NewsMatch and other special campaigns, so we're releasing an updated guide. Here are some general recommendations and best practices for using popups as part of …›
2019-08-16 Workday Minnesota began publishing in 2000 with support from Minnesota’s labor community and was the first online labor news publication in the United States. Since then, Workday has won many awards and has grown to be a trusted source for news …›
2019-08-14 by Rachel Glickhouse Today we’re launching a guidebook on how newsrooms can collaborate around large datasets. Since our founding 11 years ago, ProPublica h …›
2019-08-07 Angeliki Kastanis, Associated Press I used to work as a sound mixer on film sets, noticing any hums and beeps that would make an actor’s performance useless after a long …›
2019-07-19 This week's release of updates to the Largo WordPress theme is all about improvements for images, pull quotes, and media. It also brings improved compatibility and editorial functions for the WordPress Block Editor. This release includes: An exa …›
2019-07-15 Miranda with Jonathan Kealing (INN’s Chief Network Officer) and INN Members Candice Forman from Outlier Media and Asraa Mustufa from Chicago Reporter. We had a blast meeting and chatting in person! I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect going in …›
2019-06-21 Ben Keith and Lucia Walinchus with Eye on Ohio's first-place award for magazine website. The award plaque. We're happy to relay the news that INN Member Eye on Ohio won First Place Magazine Website in the Press Club of Cleveland's ann …›