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)

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)

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)

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)

the fundamental unit of a Wiki? If you get more granular, you end up at the Node Web (Roam blocks).

Product Leader: Stripe.com, Twitter, Google (Adwords), Yahoo. https://twitter.com/shreyas

Project involving Neal Stephenson and others to accelerate Innovation by returning optimistic future visions to SciFi. (more)

was Andy Rubin Mobile company, became name for GPhone framework (more)

The law of comparative advantage describes how, under free trade, an agent will produce more of and consume less of a good for which they have a comparative advantage.[1] In an economic model, agents have a comparative advantage over others in producing a particular good if they can produce that good at a lower relative opportunity cost or autarky price, i.e. at a lower relative marginal cost prior to trade.[2] Comparative advantage describes the economic reality of the work gains from trade for individuals, firms, or nations, which arise from differences in their factor endowments or technological progress.[3] (One should not compare the monetary costs of production or even the resource costs (labor needed per unit of output) of production. Instead, one must compare the opportunity costs of producing goods across countries[4]). David Ricardo developed the classical theory of comparative advantage in 1817 to explain why countries engage in international trade even when one country's workers are more efficient at producing every single good than workers in other countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage (more)

a phrase which gets exactly 1 return from Google https://www.howtodothings.com/computers-internet/how-to-play-googlewhacking

Scott Alexander: Chronic Psychitis. Some people have asked my opinion on a recent spate of articles like Is Depression Partly Caused By An Allergic Reaction? and Depression May Be Caused By Inflammation. (more)

Scott Alexander: The Categories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories. “Silliest internet atheist argument” is a hotly contested title, but I have a special place in my heart for the people who occasionally try to prove Biblical fallibility by pointing out whales are not a type of fish. (more)

J.M. Ledgard: Humans Need to Create Interspecies Money to Save the Planet. A new form of digital currency for animals, trees, and other wildlife (no, not like Dogecoin) would help protect biodiversity and bend technology back to nature. (more)

Pluralistic: 13 Jan 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow. Will Biden bust trusts? (more)