Sometime before five o’clock this morning, the wizards who coded this site in what-could-be-record time took The Texas Tribune live. On its face, the moment was anti-climactic. But the night was full of ups and downs – drama created by something that sounded like “internal server error 500” and other random birthing issues. I caught some of the early morning moments on camera – and this is my tribute to H.O., Brandon, Niran, Matt, Chase, Travis, John, Jacob and the rest of the bright minds who made the TT possible.

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Elise Hu was a political reporter at the Tribune, focusing on multimedia projects, from 2009 to 2011. She previously worked as the state political reporter for Austin's ABC affiliate, KVUE-TV, from 2006...