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Tool svg ractive.js Mustache libraries SVG JavaScript Introducing Ractive.js

• By Rich Harris
• The Guardian

Ractive.js is a new JavaScript library for making interactives and news apps. Tl;dr: Ractive.js will make your life easier! Check out the examples and tutorials. (But really, you probably want to read this first.)

Tool CSV Python de-duplication dedupe Introducing csvdedupe

• By Derek Eder, Forest Gregg
• Derek Eder, Forest Gregg

Introducing csvdedupe, an open source command line tool for de-duplication and entity resolution.

Tool SlimerJS testing ImageMagick Ruby PhantomJS responsive design regression CSS Responsive CSS Testing Made Simple with the BBC’s Wraith

• By David Blooman, John Cleveley, Erin Kissane, Simon Thulbourn
• David Blooman, John Cleveley, Simon Thulbourn
• BBC News

Last November, the BBC News team created a front-end regression tool that collects and diffs screenshots to automatically highlight discrepancies produced (intentionally or otherwise) by CSS changes. Last week, the team open-sourced Wraith. We spoke with David Blooman, who developed the tool last fall and worked with Simon Thulbourn to prepare it for public release.

Tool Tabletop Tarbell Jekyll Sheetsee CMS Ultralight CMSes Head to Head

• By Katie Zhu
• David Eads, Katie Zhu

Ultralight CMSes are, in many ways, the product of hacking or infecting the CMS. Here’s a breakdown of a few popular ones, complete with setup instructions, pro/cons, and newsroom case studies.

Tool Ruby on Rails crowdsourcing transcription All About Transcribable

• By Erin Kissane
• Jeff Larson, Al Shaw
• ProPublica

Yesterday, ProPublica released Transcribable, a new open source tool that makes orderly crowdsourced transcription available to any organization that uses Ruby on Rails. ProPublica’s Al Shaw introduced the project to the public in a post on ProPublica’s Nerd Blog yesterday and here answers all our questions about the project.

Tool security DeadDrop sources Strongbox Strongbox Reactions, Part II

• By Jacob Harris, Erin Kissane, Jonathan Stray, Mike Tigas
• Jacob Harris, Jonathan Stray, Mike Tigas

We asked for your thoughts on Strongbox, the New Yorker’s new implementation of DeadDrop. Our first wave of responses includes the New York Times’ Jacob Harris, the Overview Project’s Jonathan Stray, and Mike Tigas, OpenNews Fellow at ProPublica.

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