Raymond Berger

Affiliations

• 4CITIES MSc in Urban Studies '24
• hackNY '18
• Eckerd College '18
• (Internet Archive's) Open Library contributor
• StartupBus Florida '22
• (Formerly) Product Engineer at Maven
• (Formerly) Senior Software Engineer at The New York Times

Profiles: Blog | GitHub | LinkedIn | Twitter | Wikipedia

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Things I Made

Books

Non-Boring Mobility Innovations 2024, with Marco Te Brömmelstroet at The Lab of Thought 2024

Papers

Solving a Variation of the Stable Roommates Problem Using Evolutionary Algorithms, ICCBR 2018

Reports

The Comply to Fly? Report, Algorithmic Justice League 2025 (contributed with data analysis)

Software

Drone UI Alerts
Random Stock Picker
Franklin T9 Python API
Swappa Listing Alerter
Easy Gmail Scheduler - Before Gmail had it built-in
TickTick API in Node.js
TikTok Slackbot

Informational

Awesome Social Enterprise
Awesome Hawaii Documentaries

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Things I Like

News

ProPublica
The Markup

Software

Bitwarden - FOSS password manager
Inoreader - RSS reader
Wallabag - FOSS read it later
Pocket Casts - Podcast App
Jitsi - FOSS video chat
Joplin - FOSS notetaking in markdown, sync crossplatform
LibriVox - Free public domain audiobooks
OpenStreetMap - FOSS Google Maps that you can contribute to
TickTick - A free todo app, simple yet feature rich
Drops - Learn vocab for a new language

Android

Binary Eye - FOSS barcode scanner for Android
Sync - Reddit Client for Android

Communities

StrongTowns - Generally pushing for better communities in small towns. Still evaluating their org
Credit union - Banks but nonprofit. Find your local one
HackerNews - Not the most friendly bunch but lots of smart tech discussions
KickStarter - Fund indie artists/creators
Lemmy - Federated Reddit alternative

Friend's Websites

Steve, Kevin, Martha, Cliff, Hyesung Because, we need more personal sites on the web :)

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Misc

Open source wishlist

Here are a few open source issues I wish would be addressed. Maybe one day I'll try myself.

nextcloud/tasks - Repeating tasks
& Natural Language Date Parsing organicmaps - backup/export bookmarks
Qillpad - read/store notes on file system

What Is Going On Here?

I've been thinking about how to build a personal site for way too long. So I've decided to start simple. I'm putting whatever comes to mind on this one page. Eventually, I'll put it into a CMS of some sort.

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