Raymond Berger

Affiliations

• 4CITIES MSc in Urban Studies '24
• hackNY '18
• Eckerd College '18
• 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

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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