Tutorials

A selection of tutorials I wrote. Covered topics include working with and visualizing data, web APIs, creative bots, and WordPress.

A tinted collage of screenshots of various dataviz Twitter bots.

📅 4 months ago

Using Twitter bots for data visualization

Visualizing data with Twitter bots.

A screenshot showing a tweet with an image and highlighting the code with alternative text.

📅 A year ago

Creative bots and accessibility

Making sure everyone gets to enjoy your bots.

📅 2 years ago

Get post meta in the browser console inside the WordPress admin

Easily retrieve post meta inside your browser console.

📅 2 years ago

log_this: A helper logging function for WordPress/PHP

An easy way to debug your PHP/WordPress project.

📅 2 years ago

Useful WP-CLI commands and scripts

A collection of useful commands and scripts using the official WordPress command line tool.

📅 2 years ago

Exploring the NYPD Civilian Complaints dataset

Using the Civilian Complaints Against NYPD Officers dataset to demo a new project I'm working.

A tinted screenshot showing a preview of the app with weather in Brooklyn, New York.

📅 4 years ago

Weather web app: web API tutorial

Making a weather web app with Flickr, OpenWeatherMap, and FreeGeoIP.app.

📅 4 years ago

Introduction to data visualization with C3.js and Glitch

Sharing a C3.js starter project on Glitch

📅 4 years ago

Introduction to Mastodon bots

Learn to make a generative art bot that posts on Mastodon.

📅 6 years ago

Running Gulp on Glitch

Yes, you absolutely can.

📅 6 years ago

How to make a retweet-via-DM Twitter bot using Glitch and node.js

Share a tweet with a bot to have it retweeted.

📅 6 years ago

Basic intro to Slack bots with with node.js and Botkit

Learn to make a simple Slack bot and host it for free with OpenShift.