The portfolio of Sam Randa, a web platform engineer and creative technologist who builds expressive, unusual, graphics-driven interfaces.https://samranda.com/https://samranda.com/blog/social-media-discoverability/https://samranda.com/blog/social-media-discoverability/As a gay kid from an isolated suburb, algorithmic feeds showed me the interests that changed my life. How do we build a healthy form of social media that provides this for future generations?Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://samranda.com/blog/building-gobble-wrta/https://samranda.com/blog/building-gobble-wrta/Synthesizing an unofficial GTFS Realtime feed for WRTA from a nonstandard transit information API, and why I think it's valuable to do so.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://samranda.com/blog/grindr-unparalleled-misalignments/https://samranda.com/blog/grindr-unparalleled-misalignments/An adventure in data scraping, filtering, and dating app wordplay. Caution: this post contains discussions of hookup apps and sexual euphemisms.Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT