stevegattuso

I'm a programmer who enjoys learning/talking about cities 🌆, energy ⚡️, cooking 🍃, biking 🚲, traveling 🚞, and creating a more sustainable economy 🏴‍☠️. This website is an always-in-progress repository for documenting my latest ideas and projects.

The Archive

I generally like writing about cities, technology, digital privacy, and any interesting links I find around the web. If you like what you see here, consider subscribing to my RSS feed or following me on Mastodon.

Posts marked with a ⭐ are my more popular entries.

2022-11-25: My initial go at running a Mastodon instance
2022-07-17: Documenting my tech stack
2022-06-14: Tactical urbanism in Barcelona
2022-02-21: Illegibility in our digital lives
2021-11-28: Visualizing the topography of Citibike
2021-10-31: The Data Behind New York's Increasingly Dirty Electricity Peaks
2021-10-03: NYC Open Restaurants, By The Numbers
2021-09-28: Wicked Problems in Tech
2020-12-30: New Photos: Pandemia NYC
2020-12-17: The Death and Life of Utica, NY
2020-11-30: A self-hosted RSS setup
2020-09-02: New photo album: South America (Feb '20)
2020-08-11: The glaring flaws of Uber's "benefits fund" proposal
2020-07-24: Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods
2020-07-20: Getting off of social media
2020-06-22: A Letter from Nicole Krauss to Van Gogh
2020-06-21: Redesigned blog
2020-06-15: Better Google Cloud Build notifications in Slack
2019-08-25: Translating GPS coordinates to timezones with PostGIS
2019-05-29: Creating your own reverse geocoder with OSM and PostGIS
2019-03-21: Issuing and Verifying EIP-712 Challenges with Go
2018-12-13: TCR Party: A Token Curated Registry for Humans
2018-06-29: Harvest for Touchbar
2018-03-24: A short summary of Plasma
2018-03-01: The case for self-publishing content
2018-01-15: Bitcoin emissions per transaction
2017-11-06: The sound of the dialup, picture
2017-10-12: TerrariaClone
2017-10-09: Librem 5 – A Security and Privacy Focused Phone
2017-10-08: 'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
2017-10-06: iOS 11’s Misleading “Off-ish” Setting for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi is Bad for User Security
2017-06-13: The Future of Education is Plain Text
2017-02-07: Privacy is Power
2017-02-06: What Vizio was doing behind the TV screen
2017-02-05: Magic Wormhole
2017-01-14: From OSX to Ubuntu
2017-01-11: Indie Microblogging: owning your short-form writing
2016-05-05: Dumping thoughts with TiddlyWiki
2014-03-09: The Hardware Revolution
2013-11-30: A society of phone zombies