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FWIW, the head of USDS under Obama (Jennifer Pahlka) wrote a whole book about it:

https://www.recodingamerica.us

Interview with the author:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...

Recent opinion piece by the author:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/opinion/democrats-elon-mu...

(Those may be paywalled and I'm out of gift links.)


18F has been discussed on HN quite a few times, though not too much recently:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=18f

Here's its GitHub org:

https://github.com/18F


This was apparently published in 2018:

https://www.bennington.edu/news-and-features/bennington-revi...

The issues are frustratingly undated, except the first. It strives to publish twice a year.



Haven't lost power here in my neck of NC yet, but I was sure we would. Blew through here around 9 am this morning:

https://ibb.co/zhrxwx93

Still pretty gusty out but nothing like this morning.



Thank you! Now that I know what the feature is even called it's much easier to learn about, definitely adding this to my config file.

Everything old is new again:

> Flickr is somewhat unique in that it uses a code repository with no branches; everything is checked into head, and head is pushed to production several times a day. This works well for bug fixes that we want to go out immediately, but presents a problem when we’re working on a new feature that takes several months to complete. How do we solve that problem? With flags and flippers!

https://code.flickr.net/2009/12/02/flipping-out/


The Flickr team was really innovative and the industry as a whole learned a lot from them. Perhaps some of that wisdom has been lost on the next generation of developers and now it's being packaged and sold to them.

Not sure if it's the best implementation, but Norvig's may be the best explanation:

https://colab.research.google.com/github/norvig/pytudes/blob...


That is a great resource. I also love seeing it with ascii characters

Huh, macOS includes a utility called `dot_clean`. It's just been sitting there, quietly, in `/usr/sbin` for decades waiting for me to discover.

I've been using macOS since it was OS X and thought I knew most of its nooks and crannies. Today I learned a new one.

When I was first introduced to Unix in the mid-90s, one of the things I did was to poke around all the bin dirs, see what was there, read most of the man pages. I'm not sure I ever bothered to do that on OS X. Maybe it's time.


For whatever reason both macos and freebsd have this effect. So many useful, mystery binaries.

Macos does sometime ship cool cli tools deep in the built in Apps which makes discovery harder.



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