Why government software is so expensive. In government, $100 million is not a shocking price tag for a large software project. The question I get all the time about this is, simply: Why?

Blog entry: Why government software is so expensive.

In my experience, there are four major reasons: outsourcing the whole thing, the pricing death spiral, funhouse-mirror price tags, and procurement processes that don't favor quality development.

just another way to erase Gen X

And yes you could both tooltip it and do web-aria hooks for a11y.

Yup, it’s a fancy radio button, in essence, but compact like the original thing. Punch a chiclet in, the others pop Out.

Could do a 3 part pill?

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Here's a way you can support the whistlemaking effort without sending $$ Amazon's way. BUY FILAMENT GIFT CARDS. All the information is in the task 👇👇👇

Personally pushing out another 1500 via driving around like antifascist santa later thanks to your donations!

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Bovino and his Nazi haircut with his bully boys, who tower over him.

Follow the yellow brick road motherfucker

Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.

Acting Field Director David Easterwood.

Congratulations to Arnav from Fremd High School for winning this year's Congressional App Challenge! Arnav developed Oculare AI to help the millions of people who lack access to ophthalmologists and diagnostic equipment.

And thank you to our student judges from Harper College!

Cmon man! I’m learning Adobe PageMill as fast as I can!

Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.

Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

Whoa! Did not realize they had shows there?!?

Yup! She does all my CHICAGO stickers.

Busy Beaver does a good job and is run by good people.

It’s a terrible bill that basically endorses Trump’s massive crypto corruption scheme. Democrats will regret voting for it.

A Chicago saint passed away yesterday after a long and incredibly meaningful life. One of the city’s greatest advocates for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Welcome friend!
Get yourself some baby wipes? Or just accept the fact that sweaty people doin’ stuff is kinda how it rolls here.

Thank you for doing it.
It is truly inspirational.

Shout-out to the Council of State Governments, who publicly posts video of every sprint review, as they develop Compact Connect, their open source interstate licensure compact software. That is a rare level of transparency for any software project. compactconnect.org?page_id=208

You should vote for Dan & admire that beautiful typeface this announcement uses…

Wisconsin, today is the first day of early in-person voting!

Visit myvote.wi.gov to make a plan to vote.

I once received an electric shock during torture only for writing for Radio Liberty: I was told that it was "a CIA structure and an enemy of Russia", and for that reason alone I was already guilty.
Now, the "enemy of Russia" is being destroyed by America itself, and my torture seems doubly in vain.

Tim Walz has some sharp critiques of the Dem 2024 campaign The Harris-Walz campaign should have “rolled the dice” more, he told POLITICO.

"“our way back out of the wilderness is sitting at each and every one of these tables,” calling out the grassroots energy that has burbled up in town halls in recent weeks as the answer to Democrats’ malaise."

Appreciate Walz' 2024 post mortem & his path forward www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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DOGE is fucking with the unemployment benefits of those they just illegally terminated.

My unemployment benefits were denied