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We're in the process of moving to GovCloud, but that's a relatively small part of the overall compliance...fun...that goes into getting a service FedRAMP-approved.

That's a bit out of our control. We are able to hire quickly because we use a "specialist" hiring authority, but that comes with downsides like what you describe. I'm a developer a…

The way we operate is that agencies come to us to do projects (or we initiate shared services like cloud.gov), so we don't exactly get to pick anything we want. That being said, th…

https://chat.18f.gov/?channel=devops-public , actually. EDIT: Gaaah, sorry, down right now for reasons. Will post here again when it's back up. Sorry!

Will post here and tweet from https://twitter.com/18F once it's up.

Correct – this is specifically for use by federal agencies. _Member of 18F._

https://github.com/18F/CMS.gov-developer :-)

Those teams definitely exist in agencies (GSA included), but we (18F) are managing ATOs internally for our projects, and are working on tooling to clarify, simplify, and automate t…

Member of 18F here. Not sure about USDS, but we get "public trust", which is basically the step below clearance. Basically means "stuff that isn't public yet". http://en.wikipedia.…

One that I wrote, written in Ruby: http://magickly.afeld.me/ Powers http://mustachify.me :3)

A similar app I worked on, which focuses on extensibility: http://magickly.afeld.me/

A friend of mine does sonification research and crosses it with musical composition... very approachable NPR story on it: http://www.npr.org/2013/02/10/171639280/want-to-create-a-s…

Ha, nice. Was just thinking of writing something like this for my g/f who is learning HTML/CSS but keeps breaking stuff editing live sites over FTP.

1a) not all API calls require a secret