2026-08-17 How Claude marks AI-generated content is the most self-destructive utterance I’ve ever heard coming out of an AI company. Wow: When a supported Claude model generates text, it weaves an imperceptible watermark directly into the text itse …›
2026-08-17 No, neither makes sense I had two posts titled Whensday. Now there is one. It is re-headlined Densday. And give gentle advice Trunkline, the least-written of the three WordPress blogs I run and write for, all with the kind assistance of the good folks …›
2026-08-17 Enjoying the warm Indiana outdoors between stretches of rain On my way back to Bloomington from Santa Barbara on Saturday, while I sat in the first row of an Embraer short-haul vectored to Indianapolis but delayed while awaiting its pilot and parked a …›
2026-08-17 Dome or crater? There is a meteor impact crater in Utah’s Canyonlands National Park. It’s called Upheaval Dome, because that’s what geologists thought it was before it became clear that it wasn’t. When I visited the place …›
2026-08-14 Well, almost. Tomorrow I fly back to Indiana, where it has been stormy the whole time I've been gone, seems like. In a couple of months, I'll be scanning all the photos I have in dozens of three-ring albums, but keeping the photos themselves, w …›
2026-08-13 I subscribed to the Los Angeles Times early last year when I was writing about the challenges for journalism in covering the wildfires there. That was in my News Commons series, which I think has some brilliant and useful stuff. But it didn't go an …›
2026-08-12 Live and re-learn I've been a citizen of California for 41 years, and I learned here long ago that the narrow staircase-like parallel terraces on many ranchland hillsides were caused by cattle grazing on horizontal paths, because ungulates aren' …›
2026-08-11 Less to talk about Anver Kantor in NiemanLab: We analyzed 6,400 New York Times stories to find out how comments change when you give readers more information. The subhead: "The same stories that produced sharper, more analytic conversation also …›
2026-08-10 Unhuman Matt Hinkle: The Week AI Agents Got Hands. It begins, The chat window era just ended. This week, AI agents got hands — Cloudflare shipped a browser built for software instead of people, Meta dropped a coding agent into the terminal, and th …›
2026-08-10 Check them out Hackernoon today: Cyber Libertarians: Esther Dyson & The Knowledge Age. Esther is an old friend and one of my favorite people. Front burner for her right now is .agent. Exit signals Last night we were suffering through one of the mo …›
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 …›
2026-05-13 In mid-February, The New York Times ignited a storm of criticism with a piece about Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a security conference in Munich.The article was critical (the headline included the phrase “with some stumbles”) but the …›
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 …›
2025-06-02 How we developed a dashboard tool created to help ease the workflow of managing puzzles for our Connections editor.Illustration by Su Yun SongBy Shafik Quoraishee and Wyna LiuIn the game Connections, every puzzle is a meticulously crafted challenge d …›
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 …›