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Technical perspectives, industry commentary, and things we've learned building software.
how-we-buildAI & Intelligent SystemsData & Analytics
How We Found the Fake News King: An OSINT Investigation for NPR
Tracing a fake news story with 1.6 million views back to its source using OSINT, domain intelligence, and network analysis — for NPR Planet Money.
10 March 2026
how-we-buildData & AnalyticsSoftware Engineering
Scraping 24,000 TEDx Talks Across 147 Countries: A Data Engineering Story
Before the data science could begin, someone had to build the plumbing. The story of scraping, normalising, and deduplicating 24,000 talks in 50 languages.
28 February 2026
how-we-buildAI & Intelligent SystemsData & AnalyticsSoftware Engineering
How We Built a COVID-19 Research Dashboard That Doctors Actually Used
Transforming an on-demand NLP tool into a web-scale platform that helped frontline doctors cut through 200,000+ scientific papers during the pandemic.
15 February 2026
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