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I’ve surveyed over 12,000 trees in parks across the five boroughs of NYC, mostly over the past month. Skipping the “why?” for a moment, I’ll jump straight to the how: by building a completely-unofficial-yet-surprisingly-fully-featured citizen science app! It’s called Rootstock, and it features a comprehensive map of…

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Bit-banging a BASIC Birthday

I spent this summer building a new app, for a machine that hasn’t been on the market since 1980 and wasn’t built to support graphics, sound, connectivity or even lowercase letters, sold by a company that went bankrupt a decade ago, tailor-made for an audience of one: my dad, who celebrated his 70th birthday this past…