You Can Call Me Al

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Data visualisation professional, co-founder of Media Hack Collective and editor at The Outlier. newsletters.mediahack.co.za
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You Can Call Me AlJan 18, 2023
A #newsletter question, if anyone is able to offer advice. Are there any newsletter email service providers that include collaborative features while creating emails? ie. ability to leave comments etc for other team members on draft newsletters etc? I would love something like that but haven't seen anything like it.
You Can Call Me AlDec 22, 2022
Exciting times in the tech/journalism/dataviz space at the moment. Loving working with SvelteKit, and getting into PlanetScale for SQL. Already starting to use DALL-E and OpenAI for images/story summaries etc. 2023 is going to be wild/exciting/scary
You Can Call Me AlDec 22, 2022
Vercel's new commenting feature for preview deployments is awesome. I've been looking for a way to collect feedback on projects from our distributed teams and this could well be exactly what we need.
You Can Call Me AlDec 20, 2022
“Despite huge changes in the technology of news, the structure of a story today doesn’t look hugely different from one in, say, 1932.” Lots of interesting things going on in the world of media formats. https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/12/the-traditional-story-structure-gets-deconstructed/
The traditional story structure gets deconstructed

"Despite huge changes in the technology of news, the structure of a story today doesn’t look hugely different from one in, say, 1932."

Nieman Lab
You Can Call Me AlDec 20, 2022
Taking some time to learn SvelteKit, not just because v1.0 is out but because I have a few days free. And loving it so far. https://svelte.dev/blog/announcing-sveltekit-1.0
Announcing SvelteKit 1.0

You Can Call Me AlDec 2, 2022
End of year leave scheduled for 2 weeks from today: 🥳. Work still to be done: 📚😱
You Can Call Me AlNov 23, 2022
Glenn MoncrieffNov 23, 2022

Cape Town has a 100-yr archive of high-res aerial photos. It is mind-bending to watch your home evolve through colonization, apartheid, and the modern era in up to 7cm resolution. Here a community - distinct 6 - is destroyed by apartheid spatial planners, and tries to start over.

Here is a link to view the data:
https://citymaps.capetown.gov.za/EGISViewer/

City of Cape Town Map Viewer

You Can Call Me AlNov 20, 2022
Intro: I'm a journalist, developer, and designer from South Africa. Co-founder of Media Hack Collective, a data journalism startup, and editor of The Outlier, an Africa-focused data publication. Also most-time editor for a growing collection of niche-newsletters: newsletters.mediahack.co.za Previous incarnations as the founder and publisher of Tectonic, an African open source software magazine/website. Refugee from mainstream media.
You Can Call Me AlNov 19, 2022
Put together a rough Instagram-like design as an idea for our end-of-year charts feature.
You Can Call Me AlNov 19, 2022
I'm not naturally patient. When I have ideas I want to do them immediately. Almost 3 years into running a startup media business I'm finally learning that things always (alwaaaays) take a lot longer than you expect.