Apr 30 · 6 min read · If you've ever tried to reuse code from a government repository, you know the pain. You find a promising project on some agency's Git instance, clone it, and then spend two hours figuring out that it depends on three internal services, has no documen...
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Apr 19 · 5 min read · Building a Better Rules Data Platform on Snowflake for Government The New Zealand Government's Better Rules for Government discovery report outlined a compelling vision: transform legislation, regulations, and policy into machine-consumable formats t...
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Apr 14 · 4 min read · Digital trust is the foundation of successful government digital transformation, ensuring systems are secure, transparent, and reliable for citizens. As governments rapidly digitize services—from tick
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Apr 3 · 5 min read · Build a Public Procurement Scraper for SAM.gov and TED EU in 2026 Government tenders are a goldmine for developers and businesses, but manually tracking opportunities across platforms like SAM.gov (U.S. federal contracts), TED EU (European public pro...
Join discussionApr 2 · 7 min read · Every City Has Permit Data Online. Almost None of It Has an API. Here's How I Scraped 200 Cities Six months ago I was talking to a real estate investor who mentioned, almost in passing, that he pays $500/month for a permit data service. I asked what ...
Join discussionMar 19 · 5 min read · import TOCInline from '@theme/TOCInline'; The "Drupal Pivot" is not just another conference; it is a signal that the public sector is finally prioritizing digital sovereignty over vendor lock-in. Drupal is becoming the foundation of their strategy to...
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Mar 13 · 3 min read · Building in the AI era means building on facts. Here's the story of FirstData — an open-source project that catalogs the world's most authoritative data sources, and the surprising things I discovered along the way. The Problem That Started It All Ev...
Join discussionMar 11 · 9 min read · Nearly 3 years ago I wrote a blog post called "Can ChatGPT write software?". I wrote it mostly because I was on a year-long vacation and kept getting asked what I thought about AI as people were discovering ChatGPT. At the time, I was annoyed by the ...
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Mar 3 · 11 min read · Government agencies today face a "silent crisis." While the world moves toward cloud-native, AI-driven architectures, the backbone of public infrastructure—from tax processing and social security to DMV records and defense logistics—still runs on sys...
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