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So great seeing folks at OOPSLA in Oakland a few weeks back! In case you missed my talk on "Direct Manipulation and Natural Language Programming, Together at Last?", slides are finally up: parkie-doo.computer/talks/oopsla... And the paper, of course! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Valks baby 💜💜💜

I am very pleased to share the program for LIVE'26: liveprog.org We have seven exciting presentations as well as a featured keynote by Brian Hempel! LIVE this year will take place remotely, so come join us over video-chat next Saturday (Oct 17) :)

This was an absolute blast last week! ICYMI, slides are up at parkie-doo.computer/talks/sf-sys...

Out now in cartokit v0.22.0 — full, automatic codegen for your map to a (JS / TS) @vite.dev project! Analyze and style your data in cartokit, then export it to a ready-to-use Vite project when you want to modify or deploy the code yourself. Free to use today on alpha.cartokit.dev 🗺️

Bay Area folks! I'm giving a talk this Thursday at SF Systems Club alongside the inimitable Shreya Shankar. I'll be chatting about cartokit + Big Thoughts ™️ on programming systems that support interchangeable editing via direct manipulation, natural language, and text editing luma.com/mzkxb97z

The Red Sox were 31-44 through 75 games That’s the worst 75-game start by a team to make the playoffs in MLB history Never give up!

New paper drop! "Direct Manipulation and Natural Language Programming, Together at Last?" (OOPSLA '26): arxiv.org/abs/2608.26359 We extended cartokit to support programming via both direct manipulation and natural language, and observed how this New Third Way ™️ changed how data journalists code.

wHeEeEeEeEe!

THE SOX IN 13!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s Top 9, Giants down 8-2 to Milwaukee, and the tarps are off to the tune of “Fuck the Dodgers 👏👏👏👏👏”

THERE ARE NO WORDS.

IT WAS ALWAYS WILYER!

Boy this went downhill fast

يلا مصر 🇪🇬!

Now out in v0.19.1 of cartokit — remote PMTiles support! Paste a link to your (tippecanoe-generated) PMTiles archive and visualize, say, 8 billion building footprints in <1 second! As always, comes with full code generation for both MapLibre GL JS and Mapbox GL JS in JavaScript or TypeScript.

Andrew’s awesome, Hazel’s awesome, and this study seems super cool! Recruiting for these kinds of studies is also super hard, so sign up if you’re able!

Getting our bell rung 11-2 on Opening Day but it doesn’t matter because the Ballers are back in season 💚💛

Increasingly convinced (from recent both on cartokit and at Grist) that DuckDB is an unbelievably good foundation to build web-based data tools on top of. Now that you can have a DuckDB-Wasm client talk directly to a DuckDB instance on EC2...damn.

Are you working to make programming more direct, tangible, and alive? Share your work at LIVE, the world's premier gathering on live programming, held online this October! LIVE welcomes submissions from academia, industry, and individuals. Call for submissions and more details on liveprog.org/

Payton Pritchard torching dudes twice his size will never not be enjoyable.

My lord, Cade Cunningham. These playoffs have a tremendous amount of juice.

The Sox with exactly seven wins in the Fenway Greens and every single one of them being a walk-off is absolutely ludicrous.

It's been awhile since a big cartokit release, but today's the day. Starting in v0.17.0, you can now download, save, and upload maps you've made in cartokit! Critically, maps are *just files*. Slack, email, text the file to a collaborator and they can see your same map instantly. No account needed!

Fitting that a Great Britain pitcher named “Scrubb” comes in and Schwarber absolutely tattoos one to the moon

Starting a Friday morning sipping coffee and reading @benclemens.bsky.social on the Sox offseason is just the freakin’ best.

A lovely new feature added to cartokit by @arfamomin.bsky.social—importing data from the cartokit Data Gallery! Now, you don't need to have geospatial data on hand to get started playing with cartokit—just use some of ours 😄 More datasets coming soon! Credit to Arfa for the idea and implementation!

Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here:

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

Starting up a new Overleaf doc for a SIGPLAN conference, and seeing the template teaser figure with Ichiro walking up to the plate captioned "Seattle Mariners at Spring Training, 2010." further reinforces my deeply held belief that PL is the most baseball-adjacent subfield of computer science.

tfw you wake up to see your PhD advisor CRUSHING IT on @wired.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ_e... I’m amazingly lucky to work with @schasins.bsky.social every day! (Also, I promise I’m not the person in the thumbnail calling JS GOATED but it will always have a special place in my 🧡)

If you’re curious to get a more extended walkthrough of how to use cartokit to program interactive maps, we’ve got just the demo for you! From raw GeoJSON to a production-ready graphic in about 10 mins!

Out today on @highcountrynews.org—a look at the disparate impacts of PG&E's fast-trip outages on rural Californians, featuring reporting by Emma Foehringer Merchant and @mariaparazorose.bsky.social and graphics by yours truly 🙌 An honor to work on this one—give it a read! www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...

Man, I can’t stand the Dodgers but boy, do I love Shohei Ohtani. Just unbelievable.

As the resident baseball nerd of UC Berkeley’s CS grad program _and_ a massive Ballers fan, I always love reading Bryan’s thoughts. This piece is so dang good!

The end of the Red Sox season was emotionally crushing, but watching the Jays just absolutely body the Yankees is proving to be a pretty good salve.

Derrick White celebrating at the Sox game has me in my feelings

To quote the immaculate Will Fleming: “CEDDANNE, SAY GOOD NIGHT!” GO SOX!!!!

OAKLAND WE DID IT!!!! 🏆

Another new UI detail on alpha.cartokit.dev — smart tooltips 💅 Smart tooltips: • Dynamically determine the topmost interactable layer under the mouse and only show attributes of that layer. • Perform screen edge detection and pick a space-optimal placement. • Can be turned on/off per layer. Zing!

Some nice new UI 🧈 in latest cartokit—UI tooltips and keybindings. I love the feel of Figma's keybindings so much, so I added a whole host to cartokit. It's wild how much faster you can navigate the interface! Out now on alpha.cartokit.dev 💅

Hello friends, especially Chicago friends. Today for @grist.org, @wbez.org, and @insideclimatenews.org, we've published an investigation into Chicago's lead pipe crisis and an accompanying interactive map. You can read the story here: grist.org/accountabili... A quick 🧵 follows.