NPR’s developers have a new blog

NPR’s digital media devs do some cool things. They’re the team behind the NPR One app, for example. However, it’s been hard to know exactly what they’re working on and how — until now.
The team announced last week that they’re starting a blog with the explicit goal of sharing more. More of how they do it, more launch announcements, more behind-the-scenes personality.
As full-stack developer Nara Kasbergen writes in her intro post: “there’s one thing I’ve found during my time at NPR that’s been missing: our incredibly smart developers are not sharing what we’re doing and how we do it with the rest of the tech industry. … This seems oddly counter to our role as a public media organization.”
But all that changes now, with npr.codes.
Hosted on Medium, Kasbergen says the blog will focus on:

• Product launch announcements with more of a tech focus
• A weekly profile on a different member of the team
• Takeaways from tech conferences and events we attend
• A “how-we-did-that” series, where we step through how we tackled a specific technical challenge
• Deep-dives into specific tools and technologies we’ve been spending a lot of time with lately, such as Redis, React/Redux, and Angular 2

Kasbergen goes on to admit that the whole thing is an experiment — success is far from certain. But, she says, she hopes the blog will continue. “I believe strongly that we have a lot to share with the world, and I’m hoping to foster a culture within our team where that becomes more of a habit and less of an exception,” she writes.
We do, too. And also, we kind of love the blog’s logo:
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