Hi, I'm Max Masnick.
I'm an epidemiology PhD student living in Baltimore. I also do web and mobile software development. Blue Devil since 1994.

I write about public health and technology. You can see all my posts or read a recent one:

• An open replacement for Skype voice 18 May 2013
• Bulletproof your blog: a guide for surviving traffic spikes 27 March 2013
• Comcast crapware 08 March 2013
• What Blackboard discussions could be 17 January 2013
• Are developer job boards a waste of money? 02 January 2013

I have worked on these projects:

• The Survey Software Review, a systematic, independent analysis of online survey software for researchers.
• Combine, a quick, open source app for accepting credit card payments for invoices online (read more).
• Dev pro tips, a log of fixes for programming and computer annoyances I run across.
• Today I learned about…, a daily scrapbook of the best the web has to offer. (More info.)
• Beautify, a rubygem that makes it easier to output pretty tables with Stata.

Please see my CV for more about my work.

You can find me at:

• @masnick on App.net (and Twitter)
• masnick on Github
• {MY FIRST NAME}@masnick.org or this contact form (pgp/gpg key)