Allan Lasser

@allanlasser.com

Head of Product at MuckRock

and then [okay this is for old people; bear with me] remember the failed promise of web 2.0 with pipes and services talking to each other. this was fragile because each service can break the entire thing and has to expose API. here there's no API because we just aggregate from files. RSS was right

Since redesigning DocumentCloud two years ago, a new search UI was my white whale. It was a huge challenge to make something that felt fluid and natural, but responsive and powerful. I finally broke through last month and shipped something I’m really proud of. www.muckrock.com/news/archive...

Smarter filtering, saved searches and the return of scheduled publishing on DocumentCloud

The MuckRock tech team has been hard at work improving several aspects of the DocumentCloud user experience. Now, we're excited to announce an upgraded interface for filtering, sorting, and searching ...

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It’s straight up magic that—just from my phone—I can describe a feature I want to add to my web project to Claude, it’ll implement it while I’m doing other stuff, and then open a PR I can review and modify. The loop between having an idea and executing it is so, so fast.