The shelf

The Million Random Projects

Not literally a million. But every one of these existed to solve a real problem, win a real campaign, or make one specific person laugh. The big ongoing ones — Tonight, Ghost Bike, Helm / Compass, and Bounty Board — have their own pages. This is everything else.

• SpongeBob & Patrick

  Halloween 2021

  Matching costumes for my son and me, built from scratch for a costume party. Step one was walking into a Joann Fabrics and asking the staff for five yards of pink felt, while the tiny old grandmas in the notions aisle quietly wondered what I was up to. Worth it.

  

• Campaign Logistics

  RCV 2020 campaign

  The yard-sign problem: hundreds of volunteers across Massachusetts, thousands of signs, no way to match them up. I designed, built, and deployed a distribution tool in under a week that let volunteers claim and deliver signs near them — and quadrupled our delivery rate.

• Signature Tracking

  RCV 2020 campaign

  When COVID hit mid-petition-drive, signatures went digital. This tool interfaced with DocuSign and VAN to collect and match ballot petition signatures — 100K+ signatures across 10K+ forms — with live stats on a dashboard so the campaign always knew where it stood. Code.

  

• COVID Tracker

  2020–2021

  At the start of the pandemic, infection data wasn't available in the format I wanted — per-capita rates, mapped — so I built my own dashboard with Python and the Google Sheets API on top of covidtracking.com's data. Retired when the source data stopped updating in March 2021. Code.

  

• Backpack Sign Mount

  campaign trail

  A rig that let a canvasser carry a stack of yard signs on their back and swap the displayed one in seconds, hands free. Extremely niche. Extremely useful for the three months it mattered.

  

• Simple Backup

  utility

  A script that backs up data to Google Drive every day, because "I'll back it up manually" is a lie we all tell ourselves. Code.

• Visualize It

  RCV 2020 campaign

  An animation, built with Python's Turtle module of all things, that plotted where petition signatures came from across the state. Equal parts data viz and screensaver.

• Relay Race

  day job

  A scanner tool for NX lighting control systems — one of the utilities I've built to make my day job faster. Code.

• RCV Talk

  League of Women Voters · 2019

  A public talk on how Ranked Choice Voting works — RCV 101, given at the Cape Cod Community Media Center with the League of Women Voters of Cape Cod. Watch the talk.

  

• 3D Printing

  ongoing

  CAD design and FDM printing — the enabling technology behind half the contraptions on this page. If a part doesn't exist, that's just a part that hasn't been drawn yet.