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Visualizing the 2015 SotU on TodaysMeet

Now that you know how TodaysMeet works, here’s part 2: using the message queue architecture to build the SotU visualizations. TodaysMeet has a long history with political events. During the 2012 Presidential debates, I was at a stranger’s apartment—guest of a guest—half-listening (binders full of what

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How TodaysMeet Works

I want to write about TodaysMeet’s 2015 State of the Union site, but I realized I spent half the time on the existing architecture. So, this is part 1, and here is part 2! A little over two years ago, I set out to completely replace TodaysMeet’s platform.

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What's Next

Friday was my last day at Bitly. Starting now, I am concentrating on TodaysMeet. TodaysMeet has been a side project of mine for a long time, and lived for several years without much input or attention from me. Recently, though, it’s been growing, and I have been spending more

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The Future of TodaysMeet

This is the second half of a two-part post. Start with part 1. TodaysMeet is an interesting challenge because it has components that are absolutely real-time and should be built like a messaging system, not a CMS, and parts that aren’t real-time at all, and can totally be built

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The Problem with TodaysMeet

TodaysMeet is a project I started in 2008 to help my father solve a problem in one of his classes. The fact that it’s as popular as it is—mostly in education—never ceases to amaze me. Unfortunately, I don’t give TodaysMeet the attention it, and more importantly