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At Code for Boston we try lots of experiments to make the Meetup better. Some of the results of them are obvious, but many have surprised me. Yesterday I pulled together a list of ones that I can recall and made a twitter thread. I also wanted to share and expand on them below:

In case you missed it, I have embedded the Code for Boston Demo Night 2019 video below. It was a fantastic capstone to the hard work the project teams at Code for Boston did last year.

In 2009 I received my first Amazon Kindle. The Kindle is Amazon’s tool for reading e-books that took advantage of new e-ink technology. Instead of having to read your book on a tablet you could read it on a display that looked more like a physical book. The advantage of the e-ink display is that is uses less power and views better in direct sunlight than the LCD displays on our other devices. The disadvantage is that the e-ink displays are not yet generally available in color. If you like to read, owning Amazon Kindle or a similar device is worth your while.

Today my team at MAPC launched an interactive website to share our organization’s research on climate vulnerability in Greater Boston. This website was a true sprint: we only had a week to build it. However, we learned some cool things along the way.

Lately I have been experiencing lots of problems with iPad OS on my iPad Pro. Many of these problems seem to relate to iCloud. When I am using an iCloud enabled application the app will lose their ability to sync with iCloud. The iCloud enabled documents will not load. This makes using iPad more frustrating and also gives me the Windows nostalgia that I did not miss. At least Apple support gave me a pattern to tackle these issues.