The Workshop

Small, working apps and recipes — civic tools, games, and experiments from the workshop. Take what's useful.

On the shelf

Apps that live here. More land as they're built.

Sortie

Sortie measures, in your browser, where "just use sorted()" costs you — and names the feature that makes each library win. A floor model for Survey of Software 1.001.

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Make a Take

A recipe, not an app: a way to share a story that asks you to think first — compose your own take before you pass it on. It lives on every Dispatch article; a take-it-for-your-own-site version is in the workshop.

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Neighborhood Starter Kit

A drop-in toolkit for standing up a neighborhood's civic presence — events, directory, and a shared calendar, self-hosted by design.

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Coming soon

Find it elsewhere

Built in the workshop, but they live in another context.

Heads in Beds

Run a public convention center's booking calendar and discover the only thing it's built to make is hotel nights — so to play well you have to say no to your own city.

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