Michael Donohoe

Product & Engineering + UX Advocate

IRL: Chief Product Officer at Rest of World.

Past Life: VP of Product Technology at Hearst, Director of Product Engineering at The New Yorker, Quartz, and before that various roles at The New York Times. Its all on LinkedIn.

Present on BlueSky, a little on Threads, sometimes on Instagram, and previously on Twitter (archive). You can find contributions I’ve made on Github and StackOverflow.

T-Shirts: I make t-shirts for personal use. I’ve even re-created a few that I loved in the past but cannot get anymore.
The Last Word: A basic art project to ties together article image with their closing lines.
Also available as a bot on Bluesky.
Bluesky API Framework: A simple PHP-based implementation to post links and images to Bluesky.
Mixtape: My own go-to personal music list. No need for a Spotify account.
JS-PNG Encoder — Life is too short to do something useful so why not encode all your site’s Javascript code into a PNG image and then decode it on demand.
Tiny Blocker — A tiny (8kb) but very powerful experimental ad blocking extension.
Bylines — Monitor prominence of stories by gender across media homepages, starting with The New York Times (INACTIVE)
Article Leaderboard — Daily updated web performance leaderboard to foster discussion and rivalry in making our pages better, faster, and lighter.
Simple GDPR Lockdown — A simple way to ensure compliance with EU directives on privacy.
Alice Docs — A quick and easy publishing framework utilizing Google Docs.