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waldoj

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Thought follower. Male software developer. Alumnus of 18F, the Obama White House, Georgetown's Beeck Center, the Biden-Harris Transition Team, and the Biden administration. Speaks only for self.

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They said it couldn't be done, but United Airlines managed it: they have identified every genre of music.

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Blog entry: Agencies must not outsource compliance to their vendor scrum team.

Incorporating HIPAA, NIST 800-53, or agency policy documents into a software development contract by reference means that the vendor will have to, at times, ignore the product owner, ignore user research, ignore the roadmap, and simply do what they believe those policy documents say to do. That is Actually Bad. Don't do that. https://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2024/06/outsourcing-compliance/

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For a lot of agencies, the most appealing bit of Agile is usually this: instead of writing a bunch of requirements up front, you can write them as you go, in the form of user stories. They think that's great.

But they still want to use their stock contract that says absurd things like “you must comply with NIST 800-53" (which is actually levels of absurd) or “all work must comply with the the state IT guidelines.”

OK, but now you've lost that granular, user-story-level control.

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The correct solution here is for the agency to decompose those policy documents and turn them into acceptance criteria on the relevant user stories. This means that your vendor doesn't have to become an expert in your agency's policy documents, you're paying them to do the thing that they do best—build software—and you continue to enjoy the benefits of per-user-story, per-sprint control of what the vendor is doing.

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Anyway here's a picture of a tiger swallowtail landing on a tiger lily which is probably a metaphor or something idk.

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The human senses:

  1. Sight
  2. Hearing
  3. Smell
  4. Taste
  5. Whether you've copied something to the clipboard
  6. Touch
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It’s box turtle mating season here in the eastern U.S.! It is good and right to help them cross the road, with a few caveats: always move them in the direction they’re traveling, always wash your hands after touching a turtle, and never try to help if you cannot do so safely.

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I just went to the Virginia DMV to renew my driver’s license and my vehicle registration. That could not have been an easier or more efficient process. I think every interaction I have ever had with the local DMV office has been easy, friendly, and successful.

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@StephanieMoore Same here—the 2020-era online appointment system meant that I had zero wait. I went straight from my car to the window.

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@mathowie In retrospect, perhaps the exploding whale was a symptom of a larger ODOT problem.

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@mathowie More elected officials (and I mean, like, governors and U.S. senators) need to understand the extent to which public opinion abut the effectiveness of government is shaped by the parts of government that they interact with. If the DMV experience is bad, then people reasonably conclude that the 99.99% of government that they don't see must also be bad.

To improve faith in government, start by making DMVs a really great experience.

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Today’s that special time of the month when the New York Times discovers yet again that Trump is a fascist. That will be followed by 29 days of Trump-normalizing horse race coverage. It’s like if Susan Collins edited a newspaper. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/us/politics/trump-presidency-checks-balances.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wk0.wcuh.aeYXjgYRzqG4&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

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I always keep champagne in the fridge. You never know when you’ll have something to celebrate.

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Guilty guilty guilty, on all counts. The case was airtight.

If Trump had been charged for all his crimes throughout his life, he never would have been president. Hold the powerful to account!

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The tension is so thick you could shoot it in the middle of Fifth Avenue.

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That quickly to me indicates that they didn't have a “secret MAGA” member.
https://historians.social/@CitizenWald/112532011076200810

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@glennf That's my thinking too.

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It looks to me like the SCOTUS majority is not merely disinterested in being perceived as legitimate, but actively enjoys being able to exercise power that appears illegitimate to do things that a majority of the country opposes.

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From Wired, in 2004. We're 2/3 of the way through my 30-year prediction, and I think we're on the path for me getting this forecast right. https://www.wired.com/2004/11/newspapers-should-really-worry/

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@taber 2004 was a weird time

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I'm kind of a big deal

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It's 2024, and Major League Baseball is finally integrating the record books, which will no longer protect white baseball players’ stats from the superior performance from Negro Leagues players. As a result, Ty Cobb is no longer recorded as the leading hitter, and Babe Ruth is no longer recorded as the best slugger—those titles both now belong to Josh Gibson. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2024/05/28/negro-leagues-statistics-officially-incorporated-into-major-league-record-book/73882293007/

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@Panurge @toolbear They almost certainly were not—that was a lie Ferra told to avoid losing a lawsuit. They were first sold 30 years after Cleveland’s daughter was born, but at the peak of Babe Ruth’s popularity. This would be like selling a candy bar today and naming it after Chelsea Clinton. It’s absurd.

But Ferra stuck to their story, because they knew it was the only thing keeping them from having to pay Babe Ruth for their use of his name!

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Billionaires are determined to die in imploding submersibles while diving to the Titanic. And, hey, who are we to stop them? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/science/titanic-submersible-ohio-billionaire.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vk0.JH1u.E2YBLREneLg7&smid=url-share

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"It will be the first acrylic-hulled sub to reach such depths, Mr. Connor said, expanding the visibility of a deep-sea sub from small window portals and cameras to a 320-degree view.”

LOL OK man good luck

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It was just that very normal thing where you fly an inverted US flag to indicate you’re unhappy with your neighbors. At the same time that a fascist faction flying that flag attacks Congress to try to overthrow the government. Look, this could have happened to any of us. https://wapo.st/4dS1BCf

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