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Project creator here, this was an experiment inspired by the WitnessIRL thread on reddit to find puzzle patterns from the Witness anywhere. I'm also an experienced web engineer but…

Exactly! The root of all this (I think) is the contracting structure for building jet fighters -- cost plus percentage -- was applied to software, which has such a different cost s…

The youth helped us mostly because we were able to hop up and live in that house for months in order to be close to CMS - know our customers! But even for us those days are over - …

node/MySQL/nginx for both app2 and SLS. both are on AWS -- the first federal govt systems to use them. Even with the urgency, needed to wait almost a year for them to be approved, …

Changing the government contracting process is going to be the slowest part of this -- yep nothing drastic is different now that a few years ago. But the winds of change are in the…

We basically rebuilt things from scratch on a node/MySQL/nginx stack while providing the same API as the old system, and were able to swap it out. We have become masters of the str…

The core of the issue was that EIDM, the old system, was an assembly of products designed for corporate intranets on the orders of 1000s of users -- it was never meant to be used f…

We love 18f!!! We work a little more closely with USDS as our relationship with them is more complementary - they find opportunities in government and will often consult with us an…

We had the dubious fortune of coming in in a crisis situation, which let us insist on our way of doing things. (Bringing own computers, AWS, modern stack, quick hiring, etc) Even t…

A lot of the most effective pushback we end up never seeing at all -- it happens in decisions and conversations we aren't party to. We do think in the long run delivering a radical…

Todd Park, the ex-CTO of the United States, started to process of pulling in Silicon Valley talent. We were called "Todd's kids" for the longest time :) Todd reached out to the CEO…

Hey all, i'm one of the team members of Nava, the public benefit corporation that emerged from the MPL team to continue to improve how the government serves its people...happy to a…

Nava - Washington DC I'm part of a small team of expats from Silicon Valley that came out to DC last year to help fix healthcare.gov. (Mostly Stanford, Google, Y Combinator folks) …

Yeah, this would be great to have, especially for live previewing of different material combinations. Would require a major rev of the interface/rendering though, so didn't make th…

It's called Emmet's "The Good Stuff" - a gel urethane that gives a nice warm glow to the wood, is easy to apply, quick-drying, and not unpleasant or dangerous to breathe. (we work …

We'd love to make a custom floor! We can do any size piece as long as it's tiled by panels. It'd be cheaper to use the standard sizes (so the largest panel to tile would be 16x20) …

We're actively working on an OSM render path. Coming soon!!

Yup. The working title for the project was 'mapquetry'. Though technically inaccurate, Woodcut Maps is way catchier.

Then I would personally salute you. Still trying to convince the fiancee to do our living room as a woodcut floor :)

Our oboist team member, who hand-carves her own reeds, assembles and finishes each map by hand.

I'll be preparing a preso for WhereCamp this weekend; I'll definitely put it online as well.

Heya, I'm the developer behind Woodcut Maps! The site is built on python/django and hosted on AWS. Most of the interesting work happens in python with PIL, numpy and scipy. We down…

Another example to look at: http://www.appsafari.com/games/10766/kingpin-game/ Kingpin, ... is a new addition to the foursquare client family. ... Users can accumulate points, coll…