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18F was a joyful place. It made us better at our jobs. One of joys was our enomrous emoji collection, and now it's here for the world to see.
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18F spent a lot of time working on software acquisitions strategies. It wasn't by accident. While most public service should be in-sourced to government, there will always be a need to acquire services from private industry. And we ought to know how to do it.
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Public service should be the provence of governments. You can't outsource your mission. Reagan sent us down this road and it's been a disaster. We should strive to undo that damage.
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In the dead of the night, cowards that they are, GSA leadership sent an email to all 18F staff stating that our office is abolished, we are placed on administrative leave, and we'll be fired in 60 days. But I'm a public servant, and I'm not done yet.
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Amtrak doesn't make is super easy to find out where you train is, but it's not impossible. Here's how I did it, and turned their obfuscated API into an open one.