Kevin Cole

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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
Kevin ColeNov 4
World Wide Web ConsortiumNov 4

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

Kevin ColeSep 4, 2025
Simon WillisonSep 4, 2025
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
Kevin ColeJun 6, 2025

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
Kevin ColeMay 28, 2025
One of the better reading perches of recent memory :)
Kevin ColeMay 14, 2025
Got to watch the Mets win while also catching the Knicks cinch their game on the TVs in the lounge behind our seats!
Kevin ColeMay 9, 2025
Austin Kocher, PhD 🌎May 9, 2025

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
Kevin ColeApr 20, 2025
Alex McLeanApr 14, 2025
"Today is a beautiful day to embrace being cringe."
https://letter.visualgrowth.com/p/cringe
Embrace being cringe.

1 min 18 secs

Visual Growth
Kevin ColeMar 10, 2025
In trying times, a dog is indeed an excellent friend to have!
Kevin ColeMar 5, 2025
@abbynormative Hi Heather! My job (and entire organization) was recently shuttered by the foreign assistance purge. I was leading program data analysis for a refugee assistance program and am quite familiar with Python, SQL and other tools of the data-wrangling tool belt. Would be interested to hear more, I’m based in NYC!
Show threadKevin ColeMar 4, 2025
@kepano Sounds promising, excited to give this a try for an automation I use to send long-form writing on the web to my eReader for less-distracted reading!