Mertonium

Dec 11, 2020
Inside Change with John Mertens
Profile of me on the Change.org blog (external link)
Oct 27, 2020
Delivering Social Change with Elixir at Change.org
Case study I participated in on the Elixir blog (external link)
Jan 8, 2020
Simple 'Codeword' Generator
Coded up something I used to do as a kid
Mar 11, 2019
Lessons From Our First Trillion Messages with Flow
EMPEX LA 2019
May 18, 2018
Why We Bring Engineers to User Interviews
Blog post on the 'Making Change' blog (external link)
May 4, 2018
Blueprint for Creating Mocks of External Services in Elixir
A quick reference for using Mox with external services
Oct 28, 2017
getJSON in Vanilla JS
Useful snippet when you don't want to import all of jQuery
Aug 13, 2017
Extracting GPS/Exif Data From a Photo in Phoenix
Using exif metadata to tracking cable car sightings in San Francisco
Aug 4, 2017
Our Adventure in Mexico: Sissy
Remember that time we tried to work for a sociopath in Mexico?
Jul 24, 2017
Flat Ben
Traveling the world with a little paper friend
Jul 11, 2017
Alba Habla
Making a CLI game for my daughter
Jul 4, 2017
This is What They Think of Us
Photos of how America is perceived around the world
Jun 28, 2017
Experiment: Getting up early
What would happen if I got up early everyday?
Oct 24, 2016
Zamar Map
Mapping my favorite squid all over San Francisco
Nov 22, 2014
Tartan Eagles Go North is Back!
An old adventure comes back from the dead
Oct 19, 2014
Reality Check: Japan
Wait a minute...what's going on?
Sep 12, 2014
Scottish Indyref Propaganda
A collection of "aye" and "naw" signs from the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum
Apr 23, 2014
Custom RSS Feed Parsers in a Rails App with Feedjira
For normalizing beautiful and unique RSS feeds
Apr 1, 2014
Previewing HTML Emails from Rspec
Might not sound exciting, but it's super useful
Sep 27, 2011
A Data Liberation Walkthrough
Case study in building an open API from a government website
Nov 11, 2008
Adventure at the Naked Man Festival
How sake and bare asses help the harvest grow in Japan
Oct 22, 2007
The Best Signs I Saw in Korea
A collection of weird and hilarious signs from South Korea
May 14, 2007
Banditos. No me gusta.
That time we got hijacked and robbed in Guatemala City
Jul 7, 2006
A Weekend in Workers Paradise
Hiking in the sacred Diamond Mountains of North Korea