Stories
I gave a talk as part of the Mind the Future discussion at the #OpenVA gathering on the University of Mary Wasington campus last Monday.
My talk was focused on helping educational institutions the role APIs will play in the future of education, and helping ensure web literacy across our society.
You can find the slides from my talk, along with
I have been deploying websites that run 100% on Github, using Github Pages and Jekyll for a while now. I'm pushing forward with different approaches to deploying sites and applications using this model, and my recen...
If you pay attention to the news, you have probably heard about the technical trouble with the launch of the Affordable Care Act, 50 state marketplaces and the central Healthcare.gov site.
People across the country are encountering show-stopping bugs in the sign up process, and if ...
It was a really tough week in Washington DC. We came into the office Monday morning to learn that in addition to facing a possible government shutdown, that about 30% of the workforce in our department at the VA was moving on, due to a change in contract. While these folks had an idea the contract was being renegotiated, the...
This is a post from my fellow Presidential Innovation Fellow Robert Read. His post the other morning on his Facebook stream really moved me. I thought it summed up this whole mess very well and wanted to share it with you!
I'm lucky. I'm furloughed, but my kid's education doesn't depend on it. I don't live month to month. I'm not at ...
I'm slowly getting my blog world in order after the move from my own proprietary blogging platform to using Github + Jekyll hosted using Github Pages.
I've been using HTML pages for blog posts at AP...
I've had the joy of watching a lot of you bash on my girlfriend, from the misogynistic douche bags telling her to get back in the kitchen because she questions their technology startup, to the recent @FakeAudreyWatters Twitter account spending a good portion of their day mocking her.
Tomorrow, will be my first official day in Washington D.C. as a Presidential Innovation Fellow. I'm super excited, yet also very calm about what is happening. It seems like it is so meant to be, that I don't have any questions or reservations, I just want t...
I am always working to define myself, in both the physical world and the virtual one that has become an increasing part of my identity. As part of this work, I'm spending some time trying to understand the primary surface area of online identity. Sure there are other aspects, but this is the face that most of you will see.
I turned 41 in June. As I retool, reboot and readjust during what I guess could be called "vacation", I'm reflecting on the last year and the major shift that has gone on in my world.
First off, turning 40 was hard. Usually birthdays come and go without any concern, but 40 was not easy for me. I'll spare you the detail...
If you haven't use Prose.io, for editing of markup and markdown content in your Github repositories, I highly recommend it. Prose.io provides a dead simple editor for content, which works very will for managing static page or blog ...
I'm working with a variety of tools and services to keep up with my daily research, curation, analysis and ultimately publishing of stories from the world of APIs.
Over the last six months I've migrated to an approach I've called 
Infographics have always drove me nuts. Aside from being visually attractive, they are worthless. They offer no value, except just being eye candy.
The more I spend more time working with concepts like the
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As I prepare to go to Washington DC, to work with the Department of Veterans Affiars (VA), I'm spending a lot of time thinking about how I'll prepare for my year, working within the federal government.
Working for the White House, and at the VA, will most definitely be an entirely new experience for me, I ...
Hey everyone. I'm heading out to the Dallas-Fort Worth area the week after next, Tuesday, May 14, to kick off the
I was a Posterous user. I didn't rely on the platform for anything. It was just, yet another endpoint in my world of content production. So I was not that upset when they announced they were shutting down(I would link to post, but its gone). But I was just checking the blog feed of an API that I monitor. It came up in my alert dashboard as a feed that wasn't pulling. I clicked on the link to test, and:
In the tech space we use the term dashboard a lot. Think about how overused that term is when delivering web applications, portals, home page, start page and any other bullshit incarnation on the Internet where you heard the term dashboard applied to!
We place a lot of demands on these digital dashboards. ...
I grew up in rural Oregon. One concept I was raised on and given healthy portions of, was a distrust of "government workers". Government workers were lazy, predatory, beauracratic and definitely not working for the interests of anyone I encountered in the small town I grew up in.
In contrast, during the last year of
