InDave’s RedistrictingbyTerry Crowley·Jul 31New Visualizations for Age Datasets in DRA2020One interesting but perhaps under-appreciated feature in DRA2020 is the ability to import a new dataset and define custom coloring schemes…
InDave’s RedistrictingbyTerry Crowley·Jun 29Templates in DRA2020This feature is only available in the new DRA UI update.
Terry Crowley·Aug 18, 2025Text Editing, AI and Problems that Go AwayA friend passed along this link to an in-depth technical post by one of the developers on the New York Times internal text editor. I…A response icon1A response icon1
Terry Crowley·Jan 7, 2025Make Fewer Decisions?An interesting programmer I followed on X tweeted this:A response icon1A response icon1
Terry Crowley·Dec 30, 2024System Ideas That Sound GoodSteven Sinofsky had a post piling on to a tweet from Martin Casado on “system ideas that sound good but almost never work”. Steven had a…A response icon2A response icon2
InDave’s RedistrictingbyTerry Crowley·Jul 17, 2024Custom Datasets in DRA 2020DRA 2020 now supports taking existing datasets, available as shapefiles, GeoJSON files or CSV files, and importing them. These datasets can…A response icon4A response icon4
Terry Crowley·Jun 3, 2024The Inflationary Theory of Software SystemsI love making very stretched analogies between fascinating scientific ideas and software development. Here goes another one.
Terry Crowley·Nov 17, 2023The Appearance of CompetenceI first wrote an internal version of this blog post when managing the Microsoft Office development team and I recently had two people tell…A response icon1A response icon1
Terry Crowley·Jun 14, 2023Incrementalism Isn’t So BadWhile incrementalism has a bad rap if you’re trying to revolutionize an industry, it’s an important characteristic if you’re trying to…
Terry Crowley·Nov 16, 2022What Really Happened With Office and Windows 8I was looking forward to reading the discussion of Office and Windows 8 in Steven Sinofsky’s “Hardcore Software” substack, but was pretty…A response icon2A response icon2
