# My husband worked on something neat!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-worked-on-something-neat/624727>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 10, 2012, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-worked-on-something-neat/624727 "2012-06-10T15:10:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-worked-on-something-neat/624727/1 "2012-06-10T15:10:54Z")

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“[The US Census Bureau has quietly rolled out its API, which means data, data, data for open-government enthusiasts everywhere](http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/06/attention-nerds-heres-the-census-bureau-api-youve-been-waiting-for/258240/).”

My husband did that! 😃

He’s been working on this “API” thing at the Census Bureau forever (with a team, obviously), and it’s apparently now officially a big thing (in the right circles). Seeing as there are a good number of programmer Dopers, I figured I’d share the article and show off a little. 🙂

And if anyone can tell me what it all means, you get bonus points!

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**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-worked-on-something-neat/624727/2 "2012-06-10T17:53:01Z")

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Wow! Very cool.

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-worked-on-something-neat/624727/3 "2012-06-10T22:19:53Z")

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Cool! More organizations should do this.

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**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-worked-on-something-neat/624727/4 "2012-06-10T22:30:33Z")

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Very cool! I love it when I run across something I think is awesome and get to say “My SO did that!”

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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-worked-on-something-neat/624727/5 "2012-06-11T03:23:14Z")

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He wrote a thing that helps people write their own things to connect to the census via his thing.

I’m so very nervous for him. I hate releases. Now he’s gotta deal with all of the complaints. No matter how well he did it’s never enough!

Good luck to him! 🙂