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I'm interested in bikes, migration and human mobility, data visualization, and web development and work on refugee rights issues.

Websitehttps://kevin-cole.com
LanguagesEnglish, Turkish, German, Spanish
LocationBrooklyn, NY
GitHubhttps://github.com/kcole93

Have you ever resized your browser and watched the text reflow? Behind that, automatic wrapping is a world of linguistic and technical complexity. What happens when a language has no spaces between words?

Fuqiao Xue, W3C Internationalization Activity Lead, gives a summary of the diverse typographic strategies of text wrapping. He explores the main approaches to line breaking and uncover the fascinating edge cases that make for a truly "World Wide" Web.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk2S2VXVFuI

I'm up to 124 little mostly-vibe-coded apps on my tools.simonwillison.net site and most of them are trivial but some of them aren't, so I wrote up this guide to the ones I think are most worth checking out https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/4/highlighted-tools/
Highlighted tools

Any time I share my collection of tools built using vibe coding and AI-assisted development (now at 124, here's the definitive list) someone will inevitably complain that they're mostly trivial. …

Simon Willison’s Weblog

Actual headline or Cory Doctorow short story? Growing increasingly difficult to differentiate.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-detainees-food-payment-system-outage-b2761361.html

Some ICE detainees unable to buy food after payment system goes down

ICE detainees rely on Access Corrections’ systems — which are experiencing outages — to get money for basic necessities while they’re imprisoned

The Independent
One of the better reading perches of recent memory :)
Got to watch the Mets win while also catching the Knicks cinch their game on the TVs in the lounge behind our seats!

ICE Hasn't Published New Detention Data in Over Three Weeks – and It's a Problem

Where is ICE's latest data on immigrant detention? Trump's supporters and detractors alike are in the dark about immigration enforcement activity. Let's hope they fix it soon.

https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-hasnt-published-new-detention

ICE Hasn't Published New Detention Data in Over Three Weeks – and It's a Problem

Where is ICE's latest data on immigrant detention? Trump's supporters and detractors alike are in the dark about immigration enforcement activity. Let's hope they fix it soon.

Austin Kocher
"Today is a beautiful day to embrace being cringe."
https://letter.visualgrowth.com/p/cringe
Embrace being cringe.

1 min 18 secs

Visual Growth
In trying times, a dog is indeed an excellent friend to have!

Chased the bottom bracket threads on my Batavus city bike tonight after a painful experience extracting the original BB last year. Tons of rust and grime built up after sitting outside in the elements, but it went surprisingly smoothly and only took 20 minutes or so.

Not having to buy a thread chasing tool is reason 600-and-something to support your local bike coop!

“People Will Die”: The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True.

Organizations that provide vital care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt operations, turn away patients and lay off staff. “I’ve never seen anything that scares me as much as this,” one doctor said.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-state-department-usaid-humanitarian-aid-freeze-ukraine-gaza-sudan?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #USPolitics #Palestine #Sudan #Ukraine #Yemen #Humanitarian #Aid

“People Will Die”: The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True.

Organizations that provide vital care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt operations, turn away patients and lay off staff. “I’ve never seen anything that scares me as much as this,” one doctor said.

ProPublica