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I've been a little busy lately and haven't found the time to post any new articles, Graphite-related or otherwise. For those who missed the announcement, I started working at GitHub in July. Initially I continued my work on Descartes; more recently my time has been split up among a few different projects, both inside and outside of work. Although I generally detest announcing plans before shipping them, I thought others might like to read about what I'm working on these days.

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A little over a week ago I released the Tasseo dashboard. The response I got back was nothing short of astonishing. Tasseo is a Graphite dashboard, one of many to have been released in recent months. That fact alone led me to believe it would fly quietly under the radar. I couldn't have been more wrong; Tasseo (pronounced like Casio) tallied over 200 GitHub watchers in the first weekend, and should pass 300 today.

Tasseo was originally developed as a from-the-ground-up reimplementation of the Pulse dashboard we use at Heroku. Pulse has been a tremendously valuable tool for us; unfortunately, it has some drawbacks that make it a challenge to maintain.

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