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It's rather off-putting to have a corrupt, amoral president who uses transparency as a weapon against his political opponents, lies, and doesn't show respect for civil servants.

I was the deputy director of the Sunlight Foundation and have covered the space for a decade. I tracked Trump's record on open government and documented it daily: https://sunlightf…

I wrote up this news here: https://e-pluribusunum.org/2019/01/15/president-trump-signs-... This was the subject of a previous thread, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=187…

Do you have specific questions about the law that aren’t addressed here? https://e-pluribusunum.org/2018/12/20/senate-passes-evidence...

It does not. Only CFO Act agencies in the executive branch. But there is a bill to open up PACER.

I can think of any number of blog posts that pack more buzzwords per paragraph than this, but your experience may vary. http://mobile.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/05/d…

As I understand it, that's correct: built using Github Enterprise internaly and then published publicly. There was code in public, on the Development Seed account, with respect to …

There's a lot to be learned from Recovery.gov, not all negative. In this case, the HHS CTO was referring to a change in the CMS itself, not the website(s) it controls. Getting code…

So am I -- and a lot of other folks who cover tech & public policy!

This was definitely more than a minor mention :)

Thank you for the additional clarity on what you meant! Yes, I wrote this. I'd like to tackle a piece on the exchanges themselves too, at some point, but that would be another feat…

Thank you for sharing the link to github. At the time of submission, the code wasn't available yet there.

Fair point. And ouch, I think. Just so it's clear, I'm not their colleague -- and the contractors in question weren't obligated to praise CMS. I'd hoped that readers would find the…

Is educating the uninsured about the provisions of a law that applied to them "propaganda?"

It may come as no surprise that Mullen cited the GDS team as an inspiration.

I didn't just interview the people who made those decisions. I've talked to dozens of federal and state CIOs over the years, along with many contractors and Web developers. The con…