Josh Hadro

@hadro.bsky.social

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Librarian and digital scholarship/data person working in cultural heritage. Also a former journalist and current local journalism booster in #Brooklyn / #NYC I work for the largest library in the world but all skeets and thoughts here are my own

An "establishment" view of a search for "Dew Drop" which shows 17 establishments across 95 individual listings, in cities across the country.
A data explorer view of an entry for "Liberty Hotel" in Atlantic City in 1959, with a data viz showing the entry for the same business in 7 different travel guides across a 32 year span
A data visualization of an entry for “Liberty Apartment Hotel” in Atlantic City listed in seven different travel guides
A screenshot of a custom-built transcription tool for Brooklyn city directories, showing an entry for a Lucius K Gibbs who was in inventor in 1876
Screenshot of Claude Code explaining the following: ""IIIF" — the International Image Interoperability Framework. It's the standard most libraries use to publish digitized books: each item (or collection) has a JSON manifest at a stable URL listing its page images. Your ingest_collection.py already supports it as source=iiif — give it a manifest/collection URL and it walks the children into rows. We just haven't used that path yet."
Screenshot of the first page of the 1915 “Automobile Digest and Register” for the greater NYC area
Screenshot of a search for “dew drop” in a historical travel guide explorer m
A screenshot of the mobile view of a page showing a snippet of an entry from a travel guide, along with a “see all likely match listings” feature and an Open Streetmap “approximate location” feature
An AI generated image of "Koru Suburb," a riff on the "Roku City" screensaver on roku devices. it depicts a bleak, desolate American suburban wasteland. Foreground: a shuttered strip mall with flickering half-dead neon signs, a vast empty parking lot with faded yellow lines and a lone shopping cart. Midground: a dark closed big-box store, a fast food pylon sign with several letters missing, utility poles with tangled wires. Background skyline: a water tower, a cell tower, and the underside of a highway overpass.
1896 volume brewery and malster directory entry for Lytle-Stoppenbach Co. (Maltster) in Jefferson Junction, WI
Screenshot of the Data Explorer tool applied to 12 brewery directories, published from 1896-1918
Screenshot of a brewery guide data explorer I put together recently
Library of Congress Innovator in Residence graphic
The bottom left corner of the Saturday Feb 28 NYTimes front page that reads “Iranians Cite Progress in Talks, p.A9”
The album cover for Cure for Pain by the band Morphine
Screenshot of the comments of the chicken ragu bianco recipe from NYTimes cooking
A Jaws pinball machine with the top of a four year old’s head in front. The pinball display shows a screen for entering the initials because the players achieved the two-player cooperative grand champion high score 💪
A old newspaper box where you could buy paper copies of NYTimes for $0.75
1963 IRT World’s Fair Express train car
A custom drip-catcher for pour-over coffee with a teabag holder extension, all made out of wet gray clay
A basic black baseball cap with “setec astronomy” spelled out in Scrabble letter
In bubble chart map of NYC infographic showing the top 10 super speeders by color, with substantial bubbles in every borough including an orange color identifying a white 2024 Kia Forte racking up tickets in Crystal Hudson's district 35.
An image of rhubarb shrub drink in a mason jar next to a glass of sparkling water mixed with rhubarb shrub
A lynx point tabby cat with blue eyes relaxing in a wood carrying tray.
Infographic from Transportation Alternatives showing "NYC's top 10 super speeders" and the locations of their speeding violations on a map of the 5 boroughs
The famous prospect heights “spaceship car” parked on the street next to a bike lane.
Bearded man lying on a couch under a blanket, with two cats sleeping on top of him — a gray tabby cat on his abdomen and a lynx point cat nestled right under his chin
Tom Waits, center, with Paul Rubens at left and Janeane Garofalo at right, from the 1999 movie Mystery Men
A bag of asafoetida, also called hing, which is a light tan powder
Album cover for "Tails" by Lisa Loeb, with a somewhat crudely illustrated cat face on a green background
Text of the letter from BCBS: Federal Employee Program? Anthem - FEP Appeal» Atlanta. OA 30348 S(0 BlueCross BlueShield Federal Employee Program December 13, 2024 NYU Langone Hospital Inquiry Number: Identification Number: Patient Name: Date of Birth: Claim Number: Service Date: Service Provider: Hadro 2024 October 1-2, 2024| NYU Langone Hospitals Dear Thank you for contacting the office for an appeal regarding our processing of the above claim for services Hadro received October 1-2, 2024. We hope the information provided in this letter will be useful in understanding the determination made on your request. Please keep in mind the benefits listed throughout this letter are from the 2024 Service Benefit Plan brochure. Page 155 defines medical necessity. Here it states all benefits are subject to the definitions, limitations, and exclusions in this brochure and are payable only when we determine that the criteria for medical necessity are met. Medical necessity shall mean health care services that a physician, hospital, or other covered professional or facility provider, exercising prudent clinical judgment, would provide to a patient for the purpose of preventing, evaluating, diagnosing, or treating an illness, injury, disease, or its symptoms, and that are: 1. In accordance with generally accepted standards of medical practice in the United States; and 2. Clinically appropriate, in terms of type, frequency, extent, site, and duration; and considered effective for the patient's illness, injury, disease, or its symptoms; and 3. Not primarily for the convenience of the patient, physician, or other health care provider, and not more costly than an alternative service or sequence of services at least as likely to produce equivalent therapeutic or diagnostic results for the diagnosis or treatment of that patient's illness, injury, or disease, or its symptoms; and 4. Not part of or associated with scholastic education or vocational training of the patient; and 5. In the c…
Screenshot of the beginning of the Election Day Hell Gate Morning Spew newsletter, with subject line “Morning Spew: Election DAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH”
Certificate showing that I'm number 113229 and celebrating 10 million users on Bluesky
Album cover for Last Splash by The Breeders
A plot of illegal parking complaints in NYC closed in less than 5 minutes by NYPD, which shows a massive increase after March 2020, when the pandemic began, and which never abated
Bad car crash with a car wrapped around a utility pole on Atlantic Ave in Brooklyn.
A cat with classic tabby markings but blue eyes and Siamese coloring, including dark face and dark paws
"sicko" meme with sicko at window saying "yes ha ha ha yes!"
NYC Transit Museum train exhibit, with a scale miniature of the famous CBGB storefront
A double rainbow arcing across the sky above a roof, with trees on either side. One rainbow is quite bright but another rainbow only slightly fainer arcs above it