Matt Steele mattdsteele

lowbrow.com was an early-2000s era website with a simple premise: visit the site, get a short post about hitting the bottom of the barrel.

Example: https://web.archive.org/web/20050206094553/http://www.lowbrow.com/

The site no longer exists, and the archive of posts has been lost to history.

I've tried to collect the few remaining posts from wherever I've found them floating around online; as well as a few scripts to generate the structured data.

This archive is powering https://botsin.space/@hourly_lowbrow

Papercall's free version doesn't have a public API, so this is a stupid simple way to get a pseudo-CSV of all the submissions on a page.

Bracketology based on the 2016 presidential election.

Schools advance based on whichever county had the higher Hillary Clinton vote percentage. Maryland is going to take it all with 85%, apparently.

View bracket

Methodology

Grabbed schools from FiveThirtyEight
Found which city each school was in by tapping into Peterson's search

Paprika doesn't have their API documented, so this is me reverse-engineering it from an Android device

Live Demo

https://knowing-grain.glitch.me/

Code: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/knowing-grain

Sync

Learn to Type!

https://typing.io

Brand new to coding?

Codecademy: http://www.codecademy.com/en/tracks/web
Scratch: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tip_bar=getStarted
App Inventor: http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/

As requested by @rebeccastavick, here's all the technical conferences, developer events, and other goings-ons in Nebraska that I'm aware of.

This doesn't include Meetups and user groups, which are cataloged over at Tech Omaha

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