I’ve spent nearly twenty years working in civic tech. It feels like with everything going on right now, I should have something to say… This is my attempt to put into words what’s been swirling around in my head during this chaos. This is my perspective, which I know is just a small part of the picture. In particular, I am focused on the US here, and while I’ve worked with many civic tech nonprofits, journalists, academics, and at commercial civic tech firms, I should note I’ve neve...| jpt.sh
This is a transcription of Jim Lawless's interview with me (Ben Hoyt) on his Stray Pointers podcast. We discuss Forth, C, CGI, Python, Go, and AWK.| benhoyt.com
All the things people are doing to claw back the 'net from corporations.| felix.plesoianu.ro
What our crowdfunding startup microPledge was, why it failed, and what we learned from the process.| benhoyt.com
The tools I use to build my website: GitHub Pages for hosting, the Jekyll static site generator, a simple HTML+CSS layout, GoatCounter for analytics, Sublime Text to edit, and Sublime Merge to commit and push.| benhoyt.com
Simple Lists is a tiny to-do list web application written in Go, with old school server-side rendering and no JavaScript.| benhoyt.com