Tyler Matteo

Civic Tech and Design Systems. Software Engineer @NYCPlanning and @NYU_CUSP Alum

[Protomaps https://bsky.app/profile/protomaps.com @protomaps]

a lot of technical decision-making in web maps boils down to just "this is how Mapbox did it 10 years ago"

[Tracy Chou 🌻 @triketora]

honestly how did engineering titles get so inflated that people with 2 years of experience are “senior engineers”

[🥔🗺️ ᴘᴏᴋᴀᴛᴇᴏ ᴍᴀᴘs @pokateo_maps]

The Mercator projection gets a bad rap for how it distorts Greenland, but there's many projections out there that also do weird things to the country.

🖥️ Learn more about this map, included the data and workflow used at this website. https://t.co/FUNGvVpaZ0

[Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @HellGateNY]

Our rat columnist reacts to NYC trash pickup moving from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

"Change is hard. But compromise is important in life. If we can extend this bountiful trash bag era a few more years by sacrificing a few hours, we'll probably outnumber humans."

https://t.co/C0ywSclzAc

[Joe McReynolds @McReynoldsJoe]

One trick I learned from Tokyo that helps for understanding any city: when you come across a charming small biz in a sea of generic chains, ask them about their relationship with their landlord. For example, this is the fantastic Alabaster Bookshop, near Union Square in NYC...

[NYC Conflicts of Interest Board @NYCCOIB]

let jungkook run ULURP

[Tyler Matteo @TylerMatteo]

@nicktotin Flew home a week early for Christmas to surprise her at her 60th birthday dinner. Made her cry at Eddie Merlot's dahntahn 😅

[Karen McGrane @karenmcgrane]

All enterprise software is just spicy Excel

[Tyler Matteo @TylerMatteo]

@pikittakbo Do Azure Devops Boards next

[Tyler Matteo @TylerMatteo]

@NYCPlanning has a ton of openings in IT and beyond. Come work for amazing teams pushing the boundaries of what civic tech can do! https://t.co/1bWAMCXi3e

[Tyler Matteo @TylerMatteo]

The millennial version of this tweet is "wanting to make the Linkin Park music videos on my myspace page bigger in 2007"

[inferis @Inferis]

I feel attacked.

[Tyler Matteo @TylerMatteo]

So when it's actually all doom is it still doom scrolling or just scrolling or?

[NYC Planning @NYCPlanning]

With the #2020Census count, the Bronx’s population is now at an all-time high of 1.47 million, whereas Brooklyn, at a population of 2.74 million, is only 2,000 people shy of its all-time population high from 1950.

[Tyler Matteo @TylerMatteo]

@ASpittel Yes to the repetition for sure, and as a result I'm more and more interested in codegen approaches.

[Tyler Matteo @TylerMatteo]

Take note developers, this is why you shouldn't production in testing.

[Julia Salazar (@juliasalazar on bluesky) @JuliaCarmel__]

It’s a hot one, folks! Don’t forget to hydrate 😊💧

[Tyler Matteo @TylerMatteo]

These look exactly as goofy as they should. No more, no less.

[Sam Mintz @samjmintz]

This is the new next-gen USPS delivery vehicle coming to your neighborhood by 2023

[Tyler Matteo @TylerMatteo]

Over the last 10 weeks, I worked with @USDResponse + @NYC_CTO as a NYC[x] Innovation Fellow. 🗽🍎🇺🇸🧑‍💻 So proud of the work we accomplished:

- M/WBE Data Directory
- Dept. of Finance CityPay Portal
- Dept. for the Aging Services Finder

Learn more here: https://t.co/0rWU8wdsVY

[🅾🅳🅳🅿🅸🆃🆃🆂🅱🆄🆁🅶🅷 @OddPittsburgh]

"May I have your attention, please?
Will the real #PITTSBURGH please stand up?"

Unofficial geographic sister cities Qamdo City, Tibet, Passau, Germany & Kaunas, Lithuania.