Joshua TaubererBullet time and elephant hearts: Where to start on engineering projects with unknownsLittle has been written about more than how software engineers and teams should go about completing their projects, and yet after scanning…9 min read·Jun 30, 2023----
Joshua TaubererNotes from Dijkstra’s A Discipline of ProgrammingEdsger Dijkstra, famous for graph algorithms, also wrote the 1976 book A Discipline of Programming about the practice of computer science…9 min read·Dec 24, 2021----
Joshua TaubererWe went solar and here are the real numbersAs a progressive, data geek, and homeowner, solar panels were hard to resist. After moving into our new home in 2020, my spouse and I…11 min read·Jul 14, 2021--1--1
Joshua TaubererA personal taxonomy of jewishnessThere is no answer to what it means to be a Jew — if you’re Jewish, you likely already know this. Yet there are also endless answers.16 min read·Feb 23, 2020--1--1
Joshua TaubererWhat three weeks in Japan taught me about public transit signageMy wife and I spent our honeymoon in Japan — the first trip there for both of us. Over three weeks and in five cities, we were awed by the…14 min read·Jan 14, 2020----
Joshua TaubererWrite joyous git commit messagesTips (or a convention) for writing good commit messages in your source code version control.11 min read·May 16, 2019--1--1
Joshua TaubererA Minimalist HaggadahA short and somewhat secular take on the traditional Haggadah.12 min read·Apr 25, 2019--3--3
Joshua TaubererMy search begins for a new Passover HaggadahWhat I’m looking for in a Haggadah and a link to my Minimalist Haggadah.6 min read·Apr 25, 2019--1--1
Joshua TaubererinCivic Tech Thoughts from JoshDataMayor’s advisory group issues recommendations on how to find your open data stakeholdersIn 2016, DC Mayor Bowser established an Open Government Advisory Group (OGAG) comprised of members of the public (like me) and government…4 min read·Oct 14, 2018----
Joshua TaubererHolding DC’s Board of Ethics and Government Accountability accountable to thinking before doingAfter DC’s Board of Ethics and Government Accountability (BEGA) declined to re-appoint the District’s chief open government enforcer for a…3 min read·Apr 13, 2018----