To go fast go alone. To go far go together. #CfASummit

Amy Tong (CIO of the State of California) on shifting from being an enforcement organization to a coaching one. Putting users first and embracing agile processes. Great presentation. Dept. of Technology #CfASummit #GCdigital

Hot #cfasummit take: COTS is a myth. If the “configuration” takes 3 years, 50 devs, and $10M, you might as well write it from scratch and *actually* get what you want.

In case you missed our #govtech procurement session at #CfASummit, here's my list of not-so-revolutionary software standards every government agency *should* be entitled to in the 21st century. Super simple stuff! medium.com/@mattpolega/th…

Really awesome U.S. DOGE Service blog post on procurement – to “institutionalize a set of habits for making better purchasing decisions.” #cfasummit #GCdigital medium.com/the-u-s-digita…

annotated cross section of a typical USB cable.

ever wonder what's inside your USB-C cable? here's a cross section of one! this one can handle 10Gbps.

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Non techie version: Any iPhone 8/X or earlier can now be: - booted to any iOS version, past/present/future, with no SHSH/APTickets - booted to any OS (e.g. Android) - compromised by attacker w/physical access, but still requires password (or brute force)for private data

Where in North Dakota is Carmen Sandiego?.woz archive.org/details/wozada… Thanks to Frank Cifaldi for the disk! Visit gamehistory.org/where-in-north… for the full story! #wozaday

Earliest spring ("first leaf-out") on record for a large portion of the Southeast. Many areas are nearly 20 days earlier than average. + Follow along (@USANPN): usanpn.org/news/spring + Data: usanpn.org/data/observati… + Future projections (CESM model): link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Please read. Pre-print by docs at NIAID and NIH on viability of HCoV-19 in air and on surfaces. It's as persistent as SARS. "virus can remain viable and infectious in aerosols for multiple hours and on surfaces up to days." medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

There we go! #ShutdownMASS #StayTheFHome boston.com/news/local-new…

Technology modernization without policy and process simplification is borderline useless.

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Nicholas Weaver Matthew Green Steve Weis Stephen Checkoway Hardware is just software that's more expensive to patch.

Market shares of personal computers, first 40 years.