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The personal website of software developer Jacob Harris, where I’ve collected information about various projects as well as my personal and professional writing.

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67 from 11 Sep 2007 to 1 Nov 2026
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monthly (18 in the last year)
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personal blog

2026 17

  1. Civic Technology
  2. Data Journalism
  3. The New York Times Election Loader
  4. @nytimes on Twitter
  5. Open Source Projects
  6. Sky Gradients
  7. Times Haiku
  8. DOGE Track
  9. 404
  10. 500
  11. Testing
  12. My Local LLM Stack
  13. The LLM Is Not a Junior Engineer
  14. Log-Based Architecture Done Cheap in PostgreSQL
  15. Why I Don’t Vibe Code
  16. FHIR for Medicaid Enrollment?
  17. A Privacy Act With Teeth?

2025 4

  1. The Assault on Oversight in the Executive Branch
  2. An AI-Fueled Bureaucratic Nightmare
  3. Visualizing the Human Toll of COVID-19
  4. A Civic Tech Bookshelf

2021 1

  1. Bad Metrics For Agile Development

2016 5

  1. Solving a Century-Old Typographical Mystery
  2. Solving a Century-Old Typographical Mystery
  3. Why I Like to Instagram the Sky
  4. Why I Like to Instagram the Sky
  5. How the Times Did Election Results 100 Years Ago

2015 9

  1. Why Is It So Hard to Make Great Food Infographics?
  2. Why Is It So Hard to Make Great Food Infographics?
  3. Leaving the New York Times
  4. Thank You, Electionbot
  5. Thank You, Electionbot
  6. Consider the Boolean
  7. Consider the Boolean
  8. Connecting with the Dots
  9. Connecting with the Dots

2014 4

  1. Prediction for 2015 - A Wave of P.R. Data
  2. Prediction for 2015 - A Wave of P.R. Data
  3. Distrust Your Data
  4. Distrust Your Data

2013 6

  1. The Times Regrets the Error
  2. The Times Regrets the Error
  3. And Remember, This Is for Posterity
  4. And Remember, This Is for Posterity
  5. How the Data Sausage Gets Made
  6. How the Data Sausage Gets Made

2012 2

  1. The New York Times’ Election Loader
  2. The New York Times’ Election Loader

2011 2

  1. Word Clouds Considered Harmful
  2. Word Clouds Considered Harmful

2010 5

  1. Wikileaks War Logs
  2. Using Varnish So News Doesn’t Break Your Server
  3. Using Varnish So News Doesn’t Break Your Server
  4. How Often Is the Times Tweeted?
  5. How Often Is the Times Tweeted?

2007 2

  1. The Right Kind of Stupid
  2. The Right Kind of Stupid

Undated 10

  1. Timesopen talk.pdf
  2. Every state is weird.pdf
  3. Twitter slides.pdf
  4. Hh wikileaks.pdf
  5. Nicar mgrs.pdf
  6. 19081103 election article.pdf
  7. 19141104 election crowds.pdf
  8. 19281108 election lights.pdf
  9. 19441107 election crowds.pdf
  10. 19521105 low crowds.pdf