I spent a good portion of Thursday and some 10 hours on Friday putting the finishing touches to this frontend platform, about which I wrote a couple of weeks ago. The platform will hopefully be released publicly soon, and despite my deepening alienation from frontend development, I’m quite proud of the platform from both a design and investigative perspective. I wasn’t responsible for any of the investigative work, really; but I do think it documents important aspects of the changing nature of migrant pushbacks on the Mediterranean. Besides a few tweaks and touches in design review, I don’t expect to be sinking much more time into development of this platform, which is also something of a relief. At this stage, it’s been more than a year since I decided to get involved with the project. As is often the case with investigative platforms of this nature, we spent a lot more time refining the design and waiting on collaborators than anticipated, and so the project has been drawn out beyond its original context.