Alastair Coote
@alastair.is
British, in Brooklyn. Software engineer making newsy, phone sized things for the @nytimes.com Interactive News team. Infrequently blog about code stuff at https://alastair.is
(to be clear, “many” not “all”. Only have to look to the folks that rescued healthcare dot gov to see there are civic minded folks in SV too)
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
(to be clear, “many” not “all”. Only have to look to the folks that rescued healthcare dot gov to see there are civic minded folks in SV too)
Don’t worry, with autoplay video no one even has to hit the play button! Instead they just need to have, uhh, 50% of the video visible for two seconds www.socialstatus.io/twitter-metr...
November 27, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Don’t worry, with autoplay video no one even has to hit the play button! Instead they just need to have, uhh, 50% of the video visible for two seconds www.socialstatus.io/twitter-metr...
Reposted by Alastair Coote
truly an incredible bit to have this be on the about page of your website that exclusively consists of weekly videos of you talking to steve schmidt and a serialized recounting of the most humiliating things you can remember about your ex
November 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
truly an incredible bit to have this be on the about page of your website that exclusively consists of weekly videos of you talking to steve schmidt and a serialized recounting of the most humiliating things you can remember about your ex