Giving the Transit Weirdos What They Want
Synthesizing an unofficial GTFS Realtime feed for WRTA from a nonstandard transit information API, and why I think it's valuable to do so.
Sam Randa
The portfolio of Sam Randa, a web platform engineer and creative technologist who builds expressive, unusual, graphics-driven interfaces.
Latest posts
The Social Media Discoverability Problem
As a gay kid from an isolated suburb, algorithmic feeds showed me the interests that changed my life. How do we build a healthy form of social media that provides this for future generations?
I Have To Be the Quirkiest Guy on Grindr
An adventure in data scraping, filtering, and dating app wordplay. Caution: this post contains discussions of hookup apps and sexual euphemisms.