In case you missed it, I enjoyed this post from Ed Zitron about the rise of popular but mediocre leadership across industries.
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18 June 2025
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Bill Hunt – IRS Direct File Open Source release
03 June 2025
Bill Hunt – People In Platforms: A Research Update, Erin Kissane, ATmosphereConf Seattle 2025
Government agencies have started experimenting with AIparticularly large language models (LLMs)to accelerate the long-standing problem of modernizing legacy systems. A recent MITRE analysis, Legacy IT Modernization with AI, shows early promise. LLMs can be used to extract logic from old codebases and generate “intermediate representations” that help teams refactor or...
In her excellent book Frostbite, author Nicola Twilley writes about how modern fruits and vegetables have been engineered not for taste, but for shipping. Those grocery store tomatoes? They weren’t bred for flavorthey were bred to survive weeks of cold storage and transport. Their thick skins and firm flesh optimized...
Chris Given talks about his teams work on IRS Direct File, which allowed the American people to file their taxes for free, no strings attached. This tool is now open source for anyone to use! Its a shame this amazing and impactful project was cancelled by the federal government. Check...
If youre building or even thinking about social networks, you really need to give this talk from Erin Kissane an hour of your time! The liberty of our work is not actually an adolescent freedom from caring what we do to other people, but the freedom to actually care as...
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