Here's all the various links I'd like to save and make easily available. Like twitter and delicious and whatever. / 2025-10-02 Thu, 02 Oct 2025 19:13:03 +0000 Jekyll v4.1.1 nice description of the four freedoms 2022-04-28 https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/ https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/ open docs I like reference policies on data sharing 2021-06-23 https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-21-013.html https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-21-013.html gov standards data official public health guidance and standards, even though it is for geo stuff 2021-06-23 https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/13359/ https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/13359/ standards docs public_health geography public health guidance for R users 2021-05-10 https://epirhandbook.com https://epirhandbook.com docs R public_health simple browser scriptlet to check accessibility, seems easy to use 2021-04-29 https://www.ssa.gov/accessibility/andi/help/install.html https://www.ssa.gov/accessibility/andi/help/install.html tool free accessibility usability needs_eval Global tool for assessing data collection 2021-04-19 https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/53614 https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/53614 global health tools evaluation havent_used_looks_interesting helps learn what other developes use 2021-04-15 https://uses.tech/ https://uses.tech/ dev tools crowdsourcing references for distributed concepts 2021-03-02 https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2021/02/foundational-distributed-systems-papers.html https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2021/02/foundational-distributed-systems-papers.html distributed references dev paths and classes to learn data science 2021-02-26 https://github.com/ossu/data-science https://github.com/ossu/data-science data learning guides and visualization of training and progression through tech careers 2021-02-26 https://reallyconfused.co/ https://reallyconfused.co/ learning viz career love this show, neat approach to studying based on show 2021-01-26 https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/halt-and-catch-fire-syllabus/ https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/halt-and-catch-fire-syllabus/ culture learning tv teaching good info from HKS on digital government 2021-01-26 https://www.teachingpublicservice.digital/syllabus https://www.teachingpublicservice.digital/syllabus learning digital_gov help with picking color palettes 2021-01-21 https://colorbrewer2.org https://colorbrewer2.org accessibility data_viz tools useful viz guidance from census 2021-01-21 https://xdgov.github.io/data-design-standards/ https://xdgov.github.io/data-design-standards/ data_viz guidance accessibility static_sites solid tutorial on Python, easy to use 2021-01-07 https://www.slideshare.net/MattHarrison4/learn-90 https://www.slideshare.net/MattHarrison4/learn-90 python training slides lots of good books from people whose names I recognize positively 2020-12-31 https://blog.longnow.org/02014/02/06/manual-for-civilization-begins/ https://blog.longnow.org/02014/02/06/manual-for-civilization-begins/ books reading lists good report on financial habits with real data and analysis 2020-12-09 https://investornews.vanguard/introducing-how-america-invests https://investornews.vanguard/introducing-how-america-invests money visualization data_stories reasonable habits cool story of public health data management 2020-12-08 https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/communication/responder-stories/data-jungle.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/communication/responder-stories/data-jungle.html public_health covid data_management profiles nice approach for organizing R projects so they are more reusable 2020-11-18 https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2017/12/workflow-vs-script/ https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2017/12/workflow-vs-script/ programming R posts methods good perspective on public health informatics topics 2020-11-16 https://informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com/ https://informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com/ blogs because_work public_health informatics I want to learn linear algebra and this was recommended by a random hn commenter 2020-11-16 http://hefferon.net/linearalgebra/index.html http://hefferon.net/linearalgebra/index.html books to_read free from_hn math training I want to learn linear algebra and this looked accessible and decent 2020-11-16 https://pabloinsente.github.io/intro-linear-algebra https://pabloinsente.github.io/intro-linear-algebra posts to_read math training data machine_learning simple blog template, want to change from leonids 2020-11-16 https://github.com/tocttou/hacker-blog https://github.com/tocttou/hacker-blog jekyll themes helped set up tripwire-ost 2020-11-11 https://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20100107214531811 https://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20100107214531811 reference pc_management tutorials posts want to remember various tripwire commands 2020-11-11 https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/how-to-monitor-and-detect-modified-files-using-tripwire-on-ubuntu-1604 https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/how-to-monitor-and-detect-modified-files-using-tripwire-on-ubuntu-1604 tutorials reference pc_management list of data paper journals 2020-11-10 https://mlibrarydata.wordpress.com/2014/05/09/data-journals/ https://mlibrarydata.wordpress.com/2014/05/09/data-journals/ science papers data methods list of data paper journals 2020-11-10 https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/datashare/Sources+of+dataset+peer+review https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/datashare/Sources+of+dataset+peer+review science data methods reference book for holding model building sessions 2020-10-26 https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Scriptapedia https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Scriptapedia public_health book systems_thinking recipes causal_maps free python book, good recipes, text for my class 2020-10-26 https://jakevdp.github.io/PythonDataScienceHandbook/ https://jakevdp.github.io/PythonDataScienceHandbook/ book python data recipes docs for causal loop modeling tool, used in coursera class 2020-10-26 https://www.vensim.com/documentation/index.html https://www.vensim.com/documentation/index.html docs tools causal_maps free tool for causal loop modeling, used in coursera class 2020-10-26 https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/ https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/ tools causal_maps free practical application of systems modeling, with simulation 2020-10-26 https://www.coursera.org/learn/systems-thinking https://www.coursera.org/learn/systems-thinking training public_health MOOC completed I like organizational software portals, this one looks nice 2020-10-21 https://software.llnl.gov https://software.llnl.gov opengov viz opensource government agency perspective on using open souce 2020-10-21 https://18f.gsa.gov/2018/07/12/the-case-for-open-source-software/ https://18f.gsa.gov/2018/07/12/the-case-for-open-source-software/ opengov opensource posts collecting open source policies 2020-10-21 https://open.gsa.gov/oss-policy/ https://open.gsa.gov/oss-policy/ opengov opensource policy collecting open source policies 2020-10-21 https://www.hhs.gov/open/2016-plan/open-source-software.html https://www.hhs.gov/open/2016-plan/open-source-software.html opengov opensource policy collecting open source policies 2020-10-21 https://github.com/18F/open-source-policy https://github.com/18F/open-source-policy opengov opensource policy collecting open source policies 2020-10-21 https://github.com/cfpb/source-code-policy https://github.com/cfpb/source-code-policy opengov opensource policy collecting open source policies 2020-10-21 https://dodcio.defense.gov/Open-Source-Software-FAQ/ https://dodcio.defense.gov/Open-Source-Software-FAQ/ opengov opensource policy collecting open source policies 2020-10-21 https://ti.arc.nasa.gov/opensource/ https://ti.arc.nasa.gov/opensource/ opengov opensource policy collecting open source policies 2020-10-21 https://github.com/GSA/code-gov-open-source-toolkit https://github.com/GSA/code-gov-open-source-toolkit opengov opensource docs friend's blog, UC focused, but useful for general health too 2020-10-06 https://www.beatingbackcolitis.com/blog https://www.beatingbackcolitis.com/blog blog health nutrition friends kept googling yaml validators, figured I would save it 2020-10-06 https://yamlvalidator.com/ https://yamlvalidator.com/ tools text saas free dev_stack my default editor for code 2020-10-06 https://code.visualstudio.com/ https://code.visualstudio.com/ tools desktop programming free dev_stack simple text editor, used since textwrangler stopped working on OSX, good for clipboard laundering 2020-10-06 https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.html https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.html tools desktop dev_stack shareware bought_merch want to use UCSD scraped goodreads data 2020-10-04 https://github.com/MengtingWan/goodreads https://github.com/MengtingWan/goodreads data recommendations goodreads decent explanation of privacy review reidenfication risk 2020-09-30 https://cloud.google.com/dlp/docs/concepts-risk-analysis https://cloud.google.com/dlp/docs/concepts-risk-analysis privacy risk public_data reidentification_risk commercial explains how angering people makes money 2020-09-25 https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/ posts social algorithms I like to learn about static site builders 2020-09-12 https://getnikola.com/ https://getnikola.com/ static_site_generator tools utility to compress images 2020-09-12 https://imageoptim.com/mac https://imageoptim.com/mac tools web_dev liked a post on semantic versioning 2020-09-12 https://www.danielmoch.com/ https://www.danielmoch.com/ blog maybe web sites are too big, like the talk format 2020-09-12 https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm talk dev principles nice dev project structure and process 2020-09-11 https://derisking-guide.18f.gov https://derisking-guide.18f.gov dev agile evaluation can't remember this URL 2020-08-11 https://www.sph.emory.edu/faculty/ https://www.sph.emory.edu/faculty/ emory public_health people covid data stories 2020-08-06 https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19-data-in-the-us-is-an-information-catastrophe/ https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19-data-in-the-us-is-an-information-catastrophe/ data_flow covid magazine data blog post about changes in covid response data flow 2020-08-06 https://covidtracking.com/blog/whats-going-on-with-covid-19-hospitalization-data https://covidtracking.com/blog/whats-going-on-with-covid-19-hospitalization-data covid blog_post data_flow systems recommendation for covid response 2020-08-06 https://preventepidemics.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/RTSL_Tracking-COVID-19-in-the-United-States_-7-23-2020.pdf https://preventepidemics.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/RTSL_Tracking-COVID-19-in-the-United-States_-7-23-2020.pdf public_health covid recommendations differential privacy, stories about mosaic relinking 2020-07-29 https://towardsdatascience.com/data-privacy-in-the-age-of-big-data-c28405e15508 https://towardsdatascience.com/data-privacy-in-the-age-of-big-data-c28405e15508 privacy blog_post data differential_privacy uses CDC case data, nice maps 2020-07-13 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/05/us/coronavirus-latinos-african-americans-cdc-data.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/05/us/coronavirus-latinos-african-americans-cdc-data.html NYT data_journalism covid Beau Bruce's R class at emory, great example and inspiration 2020-06-19 https://advdatamgmt.github.io/ https://advdatamgmt.github.io/ R emory teaching programming public_health good intro of what usds does 2020-06-08 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-us-digital-service-technology-government/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-us-digital-service-technology-government/ usds organizations government covid careers covid stories 2020-06-05 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/us/cdc-coronavirus.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/us/cdc-coronavirus.html press covid cdc data list of data tools 2020-06-03 https://towardsdatascience.com/25-hot-new-data-tools-and-what-they-dont-do-31bf23bd8e56 https://towardsdatascience.com/25-hot-new-data-tools-and-what-they-dont-do-31bf23bd8e56 lists data_engineering cool_tools training recommended by r user 2020-05-01 http://jennakrall.com/IntrotoRepi/ http://jennakrall.com/IntrotoRepi/ training emory r programming public_health Kevin Kelly's birthday advice 2020-04-29 https://kk.org/thetechnium/68-bits-of-unsolicited-advice/ https://kk.org/thetechnium/68-bits-of-unsolicited-advice/ wisdom life_hacks self_improvement description of digital and non-digital 2020-04-03 https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2006/11/wet-code-and-dry.html https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2006/11/wet-code-and-dry.html code logic humans blog data blog on covid19 2020-03-08 https://www.drtomfrieden.net/blog/dr-tom-frieden-on-19-critical-data-gaps-limiting-our-effectiveness-in-responding-to-the-covid-19-pandemic https://www.drtomfrieden.net/blog/dr-tom-frieden-on-19-critical-data-gaps-limiting-our-effectiveness-in-responding-to-the-covid-19-pandemic public_health blog science data needs easy, bite-size career planning 2020-02-22 https://roadmap.sh/roadmaps https://roadmap.sh/roadmaps programming career ssg tips on working better with others on collaborative projects 2020-02-19 https://github.blog/2015-01-21-how-to-write-the-perfect-pull-request/ https://github.blog/2015-01-21-how-to-write-the-perfect-pull-request/ programming collaboration git blog_post helped to think about using git on tableau projects 2020-02-05 https://cmtoomey.github.io/collaboration/2015/07/10/tableaugithub.html https://cmtoomey.github.io/collaboration/2015/07/10/tableaugithub.html visualization tableau git environments interesting opinion on tension between commercial emr and interoperability 2020-02-05 https://www.statnews.com/2020/01/27/epic-block-proposed-data-rule/ https://www.statnews.com/2020/01/27/epic-block-proposed-data-rule/ interoperability healthcare health informatics emr setup of big team using notebooks 2020-02-05 https://blog.goodaudience.com/inside-netflixs-notebook-driven-architecture-aedded32145e https://blog.goodaudience.com/inside-netflixs-notebook-driven-architecture-aedded32145e jupyter data netflix dev blog_post mathematica is great, smart guy's life hacks 2020-01-14 https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-productive-life-some-details-of-my-personal-infrastructure/ https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-productive-life-some-details-of-my-personal-infrastructure/ quantified_self lifehack minmax funny, sometimes work related 2020-01-13 http://feed.dilbert.com/dilbert/daily_strip http://feed.dilbert.com/dilbert/daily_strip comics purdah humor almost 100% listen, want to visit the physical location 2020-01-13 https://theinterval.org/salon-talks/ https://theinterval.org/salon-talks/ podcast purdah curious authors good curation of speakers, support the charity 2020-01-13 http://longnow.org/seminars http://longnow.org/seminars podcast purdah curious steward_brand followed since techtv 2020-01-13 https://www.kevinrose.com/ https://www.kevinrose.com/ podcast purdah startups apps quantified_self health hacking fitness, good guests, very marketingy 2020-01-13 https://tim.blog/ https://tim.blog/ podcast purdah health quantified_self guests startups fitness exercise really like the author, interested in in new projects 2020-01-13 https://www.nealstephenson.com/ https://www.nealstephenson.com/ author infrequently_updated purdah scifi tracking book reads, want to reads, ratings 2020-01-13 https://www.goodreads.com/prepend https://www.goodreads.com/prepend books reviews purdah heard about in a podcast 2020-01-13 https://blog.longnow.org/02018/09/27/a-journey-to-siberia-in-search-of-woolly-mammoths/ https://blog.longnow.org/02018/09/27/a-journey-to-siberia-in-search-of-woolly-mammoths/ de-extinction steward_brand adventure asia bring extinct animals back to life in Siberia 2020-01-13 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/pleistocene-park/517779/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/pleistocene-park/517779/ to_read adventure places_to_go remote_places government tech leadership perspective 2020-01-07 https://medium.com/code-for-america/the-cio-problem-part-1-678ae2e9d0bf https://medium.com/code-for-america/the-cio-problem-part-1-678ae2e9d0bf government organizational_design digital blog state government leadership interview 2020-01-07 https://medium.com/@USDigitalService/happy-new-year-a-conversation-with-digital-services-georgia-afa44d2bec58 https://medium.com/@USDigitalService/happy-new-year-a-conversation-with-digital-services-georgia-afa44d2bec58 government organizational_design digital blog CMS' design kit for making sites with react and jekyll 2020-01-03 https://design.cms.gov/ https://design.cms.gov/ government web standards jekyll patterns Very funny web comics, and a store that sells stickers 2019-12-31 https://xkcd.com/ https://xkcd.com/ humor comics purdah bought_merch long form essays from Scott Alexander 2019-12-31 https://slatestarcodex.com/ https://slatestarcodex.com/ blog humanity thinking purdah Finding startup and tech related news. 2019-12-31 https://news.ycombinator.com https://news.ycombinator.com news startups technology comments purdah Finding programming related writing and hopeful about community. 2019-12-31 https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/ news community programming comments Anti-patterns help me understand what kind of APIs to make 2019-12-30 https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3375635 https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3375635 programming api interoperability new R package for medical coding https://ropensci.org/blog/2021/02/09/coder/ https://ropensci.org/blog/2021/02/09/coder/ R public_health nlp data packages