Hi. I'm Andrew McGill, a journalist and developer living in Washington, D.C.

Building a design framework for my team felt daunting. So I started small.

A proof-of-concept.

The news industry keeps making more feeds. How can we branch out?

I needed a way to help people blaze through a bunch of yes-or-no decisions very quickly. Turns out there‘s an app that's already figured this out: Tinder.

How's a superhero fan supposed to overcome recency bias in rating their favorite movies? Uh, how does complicated math sound?

Convincing people their misconceptions are wrong is maybe journalism's toughest job. Could a participatory exercise make that easier?

Reviving one of the things I enjoyed most in 2016.

A proprosal for breaking the cycle of excitement, investment, and disappointment when the next shiny thing comes around.

Why not replace your browser's boring new tab screen with a piece of insightful journalism?

The results of an experiment I began last year using camera feeds of a Washington, DC Department of Motor Vehicles office.

I found myself wondering what cool things my coworkers were writing and coding. But I didn't know how to ask.

Figuring out Amazon's WiFi button is tough for beginners. Here's an easy away to connect your to IFTTT.com (and thereby the world!!).

Harry used the charm to turn his wand into a wizard's flashlight. Voice recognition software can do the same for muggles.

The Mirai botnet contained thousands of computers, many embedded within internet-connected gadgets. How long could the average IoT device last before being compromised?

A physical button that spins the roulette wheel and orders a random Sweetgreen salad online.

Using a bit of computer vision and the helpful webcams at the Department of Motor Vehicles to estimate how long you'd have to wait for a drivers license.

Using Amazon's IoT Dash button, I made a doorbell that pings a Slack channel.

A resolution to stretch my mind and build a new tool (and preferably a physical thing!) every week this summer. First up: a smartwatch app the monitors bikeshare availability in DC.

One of my everyday frustrations as a journalist is the veritable symphony of mouse clicks required to get web traffic stats for your stories.

I’m late to my own news, but I’m excited to say I’m now working at The Atlantic, an awesome publication in Washington, D.C.

This May, the U.S. State Department released 296 of the 30,000 government emails previously stored on Hillary Clinton’s private server.

Last month, someone dropped a crumpled Kleenex in the stairwell of my girlfriend’s apartment building. No one — myself included — wanted to pick it up. It sat there for weeks, a miniature rebuke to all of us.

An analysis of whether the football coach's famous verbal tic has any connection to how well the Steelers played the week before.

Pittsburgh's parking authority was using license plate scanners to find scofflaws. But they also were keeping the data.

Last week, I got an email from a man named Jerry Green in California. “I saw your byline in a newspaper out here,” he wrote. “Are you the Andy McGill I knew 30 years ago working at the Detroit News?”

Chronicling a four-day train trip from Philadelphia, Pa. to Tucson, Ariz.