You’re a street designer (you just don’t know it yet)

The design principles behind Streetmix

How Can an Austin Team of Civic Hackers Negotiate the Next Turn with Little Data

This year’s Code…

“Cultivating the Karass” My Civic Innovation Journey

As I walked through the SFO airport, I suddenly had a sinking feeling in my stomach. It was an early fall day in September 2012, and I was on my way to my first Code for America Summit. I felt that I had no reason to attend this…

Two years of clicking ’hoods

Reflections on a little open source project

The ride-along

I doubt anybody at Apple ever envisioned this a bona fide use case for Find My Friends. And yet, here we were. Pulling up my phone when the officer wasn’t watching, I could see three dots moving around the map in fits and spurs: two representing my teammates in Division 4, and one slowly blinking as…