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Published in Cortico

·Apr 13, 2022

Building a transcript editor for the web

Cortico’s mission of bringing underheard voices to the center of a stronger dialogue means we have a lot of transcribed words. Though we run two passes of transcription (one automated transcription via AssemblyAI and one human transcription via Rev), with over 14 million words in our corpus, there are always…

Web Development

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Building a transcript editor for the web
Building a transcript editor for the web
Web Development

6 min read


Jul 25, 2021

The Peach Advocate

A coworker recently gave a talk on Enchanted Objects, a framework for designing objects that blend into an environment while also providing useful information through electrical components or a connection to the internet. …

Arduino

10 min read

The Peach Advocate
The Peach Advocate
Arduino

10 min read


May 7, 2021

Integrating Etsy sale alerts to Discord

Recently my friend started an Etsy shop selling candles inspired by various video games and TV shows and I could not be more proud! …

Etsy

9 min read

Integrating Etsy sale alerts to Discord
Integrating Etsy sale alerts to Discord
Etsy

9 min read


Jan 22, 2020

Writing like a coder

tl;dr: here are some scripts I used to streamline my writing process using all free and open source tools 🎉 I spend a good chunk of my time coding and another good chunk of my time doing some creative writing. These are rather similar hobbies— both involve me sitting sedentary…

Writing

5 min read

Writing like a coder
Writing like a coder
Writing

5 min read


Published in Cortico

·Jun 14, 2019

Controlling a Raspberry Pi with a phone

Cortico launched its Local Voices Network earlier this year, an initiative designed to bring under-heard community voices, perspectives and stories to the center of a healthier public dialogue. …

Raspberry Pi

9 min read

Controlling a Raspberry Pi with a phone
Controlling a Raspberry Pi with a phone
Raspberry Pi

9 min read


Published in Cortico

·Feb 21, 2019

Detecting duplicate content in American talk radio

At Cortico, we’ve made talk radio searchable in order to help surface underrepresented voices across the country. Using talk radio, we can get a sense of what people are talking about on the local level. However, it turns out there is a lot of duplicate content in talk radio, from…

Kubernetes

9 min read

Detecting duplicate content in American talk radio
Detecting duplicate content in American talk radio
Kubernetes

9 min read


Published in Cortico

·Sep 19, 2018

An Adventure into Kubernetes with Amazon EKS

At the beginning of June 2018, Amazon made their Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) generally available. Also at the beginning of June, we at Cortico, always eager to put on our learning hats and brave the scars of living on the cutting edge, stood up our first Kubernetes cluster…

Docker

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An Adventure into Kubernetes with Amazon EKS
An Adventure into Kubernetes with Amazon EKS
Docker

9 min read


Sep 26, 2017

Scraping, Analyzing, and Visualizing Harry Potter Fan Fiction

When I was a kid, like many other kids out there, I really loved Harry Potter. Big deal, you’re probably thinking so did half the world! I don’t think my story is unique- I grew up waving a chopstick around as my wand, yelling Expecto Patronum out the window at…

Harry Potter

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Scraping, Analyzing, and Visualizing Harry Potter Fan Fiction
Scraping, Analyzing, and Visualizing Harry Potter Fan Fiction
Harry Potter

12 min read

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