Labs
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How we build stuff at Grist
This is an introduction to how we build our web products here at Grist. I hope you find it interesting whether you work at Grist, are just curious, or want to decipher some of the jargon involved.
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The hardware formerly known as Grist
Today at Grist we celebrate the end of our transition from our co-located infrastructure to the cloud.
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CanopyEngine and algorithmic news at Grist
As he explained today, when executive editor Scott Rosenberg first arrived at Grist, he searched the web in vain for an environmental equivalent to TechCrunch (or its robotic cousin, TechMeme) … in other words, a near-realtime, link/expert driven news site that provides trending news in the environmental space. Long story short, what we lack, we […]
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New blog design today on grist.org, plus a nerdy rant about iterative design — with diagrams!
Today we're introducing the first iteration of a new blog design on Grist.org
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Grist is now on WordPress
Notice anything different on Grist.org today? I hope that the answer is “no”! Even though you may not see any overt changes, today was relaunch day at Grist. We turned off our old site, and turned on a new, WordPress-based version. What we’ve done is known as a “port” — that is, we’ve taken the Grist […]
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The News Smashup: 4 examples of a news app sub-genre
After attending one of Twitter’s developer teatimes here in Seattle and having various other Twitter API related experiences recently (more on that soon), it’s becoming a bit obvious that there’s a rapidly-emerging subspecies of news app coming into being. This sort of app can trace its origins pretty directly to pre-Twitter sites like Techmeme and […]
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Otto, Nacin at Grist
Last week we were lucky enough to play host to two members of the WordPress core team last week here in our offices in Seattle. If you ever get the chance to work with/learn from Otto (@otto42) and Nacin (@nacin) … well just do it! Grist would not be what it is without the contributions […]
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Please try IronCache — a memcached extension for ExpressionEngine
IronCache is an extension for the ExpressionEngine CMS that boosts performance for high traffic sites by using memcached
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Grist Hackathon Hangover Report
We just completed our first news hackathon afternoon. The purpose of the event was to give everyone at Grist the opportunity to try out new tools and ways of working together. The specific challenge of the day: given 4 hours, tell a relevant story with data. That’s it! No more guidance was given (well OK […]