Notes, quotes and socks
Why is it so hard to write an essay? All those brilliant ideas floating in your head, those gossamer threads of relations, connections and causes, you expect them to scintillate on the page and instead they just splat like a gumboot in mud. ...
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Como quitar el agitador de una lavadora LG
Perdon por los errores tipográficos. No suelo escribir en español. Sin embargo, decidí escribir este articulo en español porque el modelo de lavadora de que se trata es mas comun en latinoamérica, y es mas probable que sea utíl para hispanohablantes.Una moneda quedó ...
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The soul outside Merida's "artistic" center
On a torrid April midmorning, I stood with my kids in a thin sliver of shade cast by a building in Ciudad Caucel, a sprawling suburb on the western edge of Merida, Mexico. There were already several people pressed up against the building so I had to stand partly in ...
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Writing for radio: a quote-based writing method
Writing is hard work. When preparing a radio script, I put off that hard work as long as I can, focusing on the quotes and scenes, and only starting to write at the very end of the job.
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Programming, django, wagtail
A Wagtail beginner's miscellany #1: replicating a database with fixtures
Replicating your development database on your production server isn't as easy as copy-paste. A bug in Wagtail makes it doubly difficult. Here's a step-by-step guide that worked for me.
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Programming, Journalism, Haiti
50 lines of code behind one line of reporting
Education in Haiti is unequal, but how unequal? To find out, I scoured the internet for data, then applied a little basic coding to get an answer. The techniques I used were simple but come from the world of programming, not journalism. A simple parable about the use of coding skills in a journalist's daily work.
