An intersection of my daily interests:
- emacs / org mode
- web development
- tracking current events and the fall of democracy in the U.S.
- trying to remember any of the relevant events that led to today’s
The data is sourced from my own capturing of news that I consume. Rather than scraping news sites or APIs, a manual approach allows me to learn and fine-tune org mode usage, focus on the content of each news story, and identify the exact dates that events occurred instead of the dates they were reported. I hope this data proves useful to you as well!
- Subject
- A high-level topic to categorize news. Some overlap with org mode tags until data can be cleaned.
- Link
- A link to an archived copy of some news or the site itself if I can’t archive it with Archive.org (i.e. Reuters)
- Branch
- Executive, Judicial, or Legislative. This might be useful or it might not. Only time will tell
For some stories that I research more in-depth, I add additional notes. These
The main goal is to stick to vanilla javascript as much as possible. This provides a greater challenge for me and gives me better practice at the underlying javascript API that all our favorite frameworks abstract over. I have primarily developed with Vue during my career.