Lots of people building NoteTaking apps try to create a multi-sub-window experience in a single browser window. I don't like that because I never have enough control over a bunch of sub-windows. (more)

NumberThree's AirPods not holding charge - the left one lasts 3hrs, the right one lasts less than a minute? Even when not being used at all. (more)

The United States Digital Service is an elite technology unit[1][2] housed within the Executive Office of the President of the United States. It provides consultation services to federal agencies on information technology. It seeks to improve and simplify digital service, and to improve federal websites. It was launched on August 11, 2014. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service

Wyden seeks funds for USDS, 18F to help states amid COVID-19. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and 15 Democratic colleagues are asking congressional leadership to appropriate more funds for federal technology innovators to help states whose legacy IT systems are fracturing under the demand created by the COVID-19 pandemic. (more)

18F slices ATO times to from 6 months to 30 days. ...reduce the time it takes to process an authority to operate (ATO) from more than six months down to 30 days with a series of collaborative strategies. (more)

Ben Balter: The difference between 18F and USDS. Although similar on paper, the two approach the challenge with two very divergent goals: one was created to ship culture and the other was created to ship confidence. It’s the age-old saga of geeks vs. suits. (more)

Brian Whittaker takes over as acting executive director of 18F. Whittaker has been with GSA since 2016. Most recently, since November 2017, he has worked as deputy executive director of the Centers of Excellence initiative. (more)

Now 10 years old, Code for America hopes for government to walk alone. As Jennifer Pahlka moves on from her role as Code for America’s chief executive, the nonprofit she founded a decade ago now includes 25,000 fellows and volunteers nationwide (more)

Outgoing director Angela Colter reflects on her highlights with 18F. During her tenure as executive director of 18F, Angela Colter has done a lot of thinking about what makes a good 18F project. (more)

Kris Gage: Fuck Your “Planning” Planning is procrastination, not action (more)

Jennifer Pahlka (born 1969) is the founder and former Executive Director of Code for America. She served as US Deputy Chief Technology Officer from June 2013 to June 2014 and helped found the United States Digital Service... She married Tim O'Reilly in 2015... Pahlka founded Code for America, a San Francisco-based non-profit organization that aims to make government for all people.. She set in motion the creation of the United States Digital Service (USDS) within the Executive Office of the President, and helped start 18F at the General Services Administration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Pahlka (more)

Jekyll is a simple, blog-aware, static site generator for personal, project, or organization sites. Written in Ruby by Tom Preston-Werner, GitHub's co-founder, it is distributed under the open source MIT license. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jekyll_(software) (more)

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Dan Hon s09e22: Where Do You Start? (more)

Expectation versus Reality of Five Years in Gov Tech (egov). We asked five leaders in the gov tech market what they expected to happen in the past five years that did — or did not — come to pass (more)

USDS budget cut forces focus on core capabilities. The White House tech team that was formed to save HealthCare.gov in 2014 is returning to its roots as a 911 squad for government tech. That's the message coming out of a planned cut of about $6.75 million to the U.S. Digital Service funding level for fiscal year 2020 -- part of an overall $13.5 million reduction to the Information Technology Oversight and Reform budget sought by the administration. (more)

Paul Shetler's perspective on UK, US and Australian government (egov) digital transformation. “You can’t Kumbaya your way through this,” smiles Paul Shetler as he relaxes in a cafe in Sydney’s fashionable Potts Point while talking about the challenges of managing a government’s digital transformation (more)

We've discovered a new structure for building anything-- crossed lists in many dimensions, which we're calling ZigZag. (more)

You could get a huge mass of people to participate in a reactionary endeavour if you dressed it up in nice, twee, cupcakey imagery, and persuaded everyone that the brutality of your ideology was in fact a form of niceness. If a fascist reich was to be established anywhere today, I believe it would necessarily have to exchange iron eagles for fluffy kittens, swap jackboots for Converse, and the epic drama of Wagnerian horns for mumbled ditties on ukuleles. Fascism is, properly understood, a certain sort of response to a crisis. It is the reactionary response, as opposed to the radical one. (more)

an RDF Data Store (more)