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How I got started contributing to Rails

Open source is driven by a dedicated team of volunteers. Let’s learn more about the process from a Rails Issues Team member!

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Open sourcing our accessibility guidelines

As journalists, advertisers, producers, and creators, content is at our core at Vox Media. We want to ensure that everyone—regardless of ability, situation, or context—can access it.

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Opening up data projects at Vox Media

Over the past six months, Vox Media has hired multiple embedded engineers for the sole purpose of building editorial content on each vertical. We hope that you’ve noticed an increasing amount of interactive data visualization on our sites. In...

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Optimizing RegEx for Emoji

Emoji support was requested for Vox Media's live blogging platforms. In considering an approach for this feature, there were two goals: 1) use GitHub's gemoji gem as an established source of emoji data and graphics, and 2) parse these data...

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Speeding up and Overriding Ad Server Targeting During Local Development

Hi, I’m Brian. I’ve been working on the ads platform team at Vox Media since October 2013. A good portion of my time is spent supporting and developing the systems that help ads get displayed on the page in a way that scales for all of our users...

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Quiz Whiz

Written by KK Rebecca Lai, Nicole Zhu & Adam Baumgartner Here at Vox media, we are constantly finding new ways to create engaging, shareable content. Our newest authoring tool is a quiz generator that offers thorough explanations of topics in...

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Take a peek at the code that powered The Verge 50

Last December, The Verge published The Verge 50, one of our earliest examples of our Editorial Apps system built by VP of Technology Pablo Mercado during last October's VAX hackathon, inspired by the work done by the NPR Visuals team. In a...

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Meme generation made easy

Vox often use images on social media to give users more context than a normal tweet or Facebook post. We found that if we added a quote or interesting fact to an image that more users would share it. But having designers craft each image every...

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