Announcing the Georgia Open Data Project It is my pleasure to formally announce the Georgia Open Data Project. Posted by Matt Farmer on September 09, 2013 · 3 mins read
New PGP Key This is an official notice that I have changed my PGP key. The old key, BA72BA4E, has been replaced by a new one, which has the primary fingerprint D6674D07 with two subkeys: D67F1DD8 and 014A2697. I decided to swap all my keys out to upgrade their strength to 4096 bits. I have immediately revoked the BA72BA4E key so that it will not be used by mistake. Posted by Matt Farmer on September 09, 2013 · 1 min read
Tenacity and Experimentation There’s a sense of satisfaction that sticks with you when you beat your head against a problem for so long and then come to a workable solution that allows you to implement the awesome vision the team has crafted without much compromise. Posted by Matt Farmer on August 17, 2013 · 5 mins read
RFC: An API for the Georgia General Assembly In the internet technology world, a Request for Comments (RFC) is a memorandum issued to by the Internet Engineering Task Force for peer review and generally are the framework from which a discussion about a new internet standard starts. In this same tradition, I’m reaching out to the internet to request comments on a fun little side project I’m working on: An API for the activities of the Georgia General Assembly. Posted by Matt Farmer on August 03, 2013 · 3 mins read
When a Chrome Bug Kills Your Product Update: In what is a lesson of “I should probably reach out for help sooner,” a commenter on the Hacker News thread correctly found that the issue was a text-indent rule we have on the Anchor Tab stamp. Go figure. I’ve removed the rule from the CSS, but what with the awesomeness that is caches it’ll take awhile to show up everywhere. I don’t know why my previous adding/removing of elements on the bar didn’t find that, but c’est la vie. Posted by Matt Farmer on August 03, 2013 · 4 mins read