- Congratulations to Cori Zarek who returns to the US Digital Service as its Deputy Executive Director.
- Connecticut’s Office of Health Strategy contracted with UConn to build its health information system “in-house”. It did not go well. The article leaves us with some possibilities but no clear conclusion as to why. It does sound like they struggled to develop their custom system.
- Shrink projects to match leadership turnover rates is some insightful advice from Sean Boots.
- For the love of God, hire a Designer and a Product Manager is a long explanation by Paul Craig of why these roles are so important for software teams.
- Washington Post built a fake metropolis to show how heat can wreck cities. Lots of these issues are painfully familiar to us in Boston over the past few weeks.
- Why Does the IRS Need $80 Million? is a good visual explanation of the current way the IRS handles paper tax returns.
- If you ever wondered how software in automobiles works, How I Hacked My Car is a geeky breakdown of the process of hacking a car’s operating system and adding an app to it. Not sure why they went with Qt for the user interface when Tesla seems to use Ruby on Rails just fine.
- Melrose, MA added cool retractable pole mounted EV chargers.