phildini

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   Plastic Flowers to Protect the Hive(phildini.dev)

   1 points by phildini 4mo ago|0 comments
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   by phildini 9mo ago

   Fixed Austin TX!
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   by phildini 9mo ago

   Hello! The crawlers are not currently public, but I'm happy to take volunteers behind the curtain. I also fixed Cook County
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   by phildini 9mo ago

   Hi there! I've built the beginnings of this platform at https://civic.band and https://civic.observer . We track City Councils, Boards of Supervisors, really any municipality we can get our hands on. I'm ver
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   by phildini 9mo ago

   I don't work with them right now but maybe this will help? https://oakland.ca.civic.band/-/search?q=flock
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   by phildini 9mo ago

   Hi! I've written crawlers for about a dozen municipal hosting platforms, and you can learn the bare-bones of it from our "How" page: https://civic.band/how.html I also gave a talk on this concept that walks t
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   by phildini 9mo ago

   thanks! the next major hurdle is school boards; gotta get EBoard and BoardDocs to make that work
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   by phildini 9mo ago

   Where would you want more detail? I've been working on adding Canada to CivicBand: https://civic.band/sites/sites?_sort_desc=pages&state__in=BC... I also track Puerto Rico, but only at the Senate level: https
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   by phildini 9mo ago

   Granicus is six providers in a trench coat it turns out. IQM2, NovusAgenda, Legistar, Granicus, PriveGov, and CivicClerk are all Granicus projects that share absolutely 0 apis that I've found, and a city having one of these operational
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    by phildini 9mo ago

    I _think_ (but am not actually certain) we're monitoring more municipal agencies at CivicBand, but I know some of the folks at MuckRock and the work they're doing is absolutely critical.
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    by phildini 9mo ago

    The question would ultimately get settled in court, I think, but a DA who was feeling cop-aligned and vicious could try to ding you for interfering with police operations by _not_ allowing your plate to get scanned.
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    by phildini 9mo ago

    Search context is legitimately hard, especially since this is unstructured text data that (ime building CivicBand) needs to be OCR'd not parsed for best results. You might be terrified the number of municipalities that are still postin
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    by phildini 9mo ago

    Thanks for asking! - The framework for crawling is open-source. https://github.com/civicband - There is absolutely not a standardized API for nearly any of this. I build generalized crawlers when I can, and then build custo
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    by phildini 9mo ago

    Fixed the 404s on civic.band, thanks
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    by phildini 9mo ago

    This is super important work, and is kind of why I built https://civic.band and https://civic.observer , which are generalized tools for monitoring civic govts. (You can search for anything, not just ALPR)
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    by phildini 10mo ago

    It's time for Netflix' greedy acqs Taking value to the max So just sit back and relax and give us all your cash We're now a Netflix acq!
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    by phildini 11mo ago

    This is super cool and I love the idea of keeping the data and AI local.
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    by phildini 1y ago

    I got very briefly excited that this might be a new application layer on top of meshtastic.
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    by phildini 2y ago

    All the time I've worked in security I've seen that detection beats prevention because of this reality, nice to see some studies on it. (This is why we built https://crowdalert.com , amusingly)
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    Tips for SOCLess Oncall(crowdalert.com)

    6 points by phildini 2y ago|0 comments
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    by phildini 3y ago

    In the US, especially in CA, where so many readers of this site live and work, absolutely. All the policies and procedures are there to, ultimately, protect the company from wrongful termination or discrimination lawsuits. There's not
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    You're Always Carrying a Cannon(phildini.dev)

    33 points by phildini 3y ago|12 comments
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    by phildini 4y ago

    Hi there! I'm someone currently doing this. I'm CTO at a small startup in Oakland, am married, have a 4-month-old, have a mortgage. CEO just turned 40, also has a mortgage, is married, and has two kids. Like everything, there&#x27
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    Digitizing 55,000 pages of civic meetings(phildini.dev)

    3 points by phildini 4y ago|0 comments
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    Shot-Scraper: Automated website screenshots using GitHub Actions(github.com)

    3 points by phildini 5y ago|0 comments
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    by phildini 5y ago

    Hard agree that the current gen of iPads are really incredible, and that Procreate especially is maybe the best creative app that's ever been made. They keep adding features under the same price point that make giddy with possibility.
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    The City, Inc. board of directors(phildini.dev)

    1 points by phildini 6y ago|0 comments
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    by phildini 8y ago

    I'm not even familiar with soup-soup! What was it?
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    Introducing Epithet – a python tool for managing GitHub labels(wordfugue.com)

    1 points by phildini 9y ago|0 comments
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    by phildini 12y ago

    Had a similar circumstance, re: my co-creator getting rejected and myself getting accepted. I have mixed feelings about my acceptance, because I think she might benefit from it more than I.