George Brocklehurst makes things for the internet.

Work, projects, and curios

I work at thoughtbot, building Ruby & Python apps with our clients, and leading our NYC development team.
Choosy is a macOS application that helps you to seamlessly use multiple Web browsers.
gitsh is a scriptable and interactive shell for Git, following the long tradition of Unix tools.
Spacelog is a /dev/fort project that brings early space flights to the Web in a searchable, linkable format.

Latest writing

Named Entity Recognition on the thoughtbot blog

I wanted to experiment with a reasonably large recipe dataset, to play around with some meal planning ideas. The trouble was, I didn’t have a dataset.

No problem, I thought, there are loads of recipes on the Web—I’ll use some of those!

More…

Elsewhere

Twitter for bits and bobs.
Github for the code I’m writing.
Last.fm for the music I’m listening to.
Delicious for the things I want to ﬁnd again later.
Instagram & Flickr for photos.