Blogs
Connecting Action Network and Google Sheets with webhooks and n8n
Recently, I wanted to connect an Action Network form that collects emails to a Google Sheet. The sheet is designed for mobilizers to find users that signed the Action Network form and reach out to them for a high-touch onboarding to the DSA National Tech Committee....
Why you should care about team chat apps, and which is the best for DSA?
Slack invented the concept of a team chat platform and is still the dominant player, but in the last few years open-source competitors have risen to challenge its dominance.
A year in review from socialism.tools
Year in review It's been a long, weird year, and I thought I'd make a quick post to review what I've done this year. Socialism.tools started in 2020 but I only really started polishing it and adding regular content this year. In the first half of the year, I added...
Document editors — a quick head to head
You know Google Docs and Word, but how to they compare to OnlyOffice or Libreoffice? Here’s a quick look with a small but complex proposal I recently wrote.
Why I ditched cloudflare (and you should too)
When I published Part 1 of Taking Control of Your Chapter's Digital Tools, I chose Cloudflare as the domain registrar and nameserver host due to their ubiquity and low cost. After I published it, a reader pointed to an article listing many issues with Cloudflare that...
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