I realized that I don’t do a very good job of writing full posts on here about my projects as I release them. So before I start on any new work for 2023, here’s just a quick recap of the many projects I worked on (outside of work) this year:
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I launched my open source Guide to U.S. Technology Policy.
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I designed a series of govtech t-shirts and started a Cafepress shop to sell them.
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I started a YouTube stream where I play videogames like Satisfactory and Minecraft, Enderprise Architecture.
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I re-launched my Public Interest Tech webring, and created a webring template script so folks can make their own.
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I shut down my Twitter account, moved to mastodon, and wrote a tool to look for your followers on mastodon. I also moved my Policy Tweeting bot, EOPbot to mastodon.
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I started a new Mastodon community for public interest tech folks, Public Interest Town.
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I learned a bunch about scraping RSS feeds using the Jekyll build process, and deploying static sites with GitHub Actions using cron to refresh scraped page content regularly.
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I created a polyfill for the deprecated HTML
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I redesigned this website in the style of the 2000s era sites, and made a spooky Halloween theme.
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I later added a microformat-supporting links page and associated FOAF file.
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I created a jobs board for govtech jobs and created a mastodon feed for that as well.
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I wrote a silly little halloween-inspired cyberpunk horror story.
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I gave my first in-person talk at a conference since the beginning of the pandemic, on Managing IT Complexity.
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I also continued to run my free sticker program which has now raised over $1,700 for charity!
Amazing what you can do with some free time and a bunch of unfocused manic energy. A lot of this work falls under my concept of Making the Web Weirder, and in 2023 I hope to dedicate even more time to silly little projects to make the world a weirder and more delightful place!