aidanfeldman

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by aidanfeldman 10y ago
We're in the process of moving to GovCloud, but that's a relatively small part of the overall compliance...fun...that goes into getting a service FedRAMP-approved.
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by aidanfeldman 10y ago
That's a bit out of our control. We are able to hire quickly because we use a "specialist" hiring authority, but that comes with downsides like what you describe. I'm a developer and am making more than I did at any prev
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by aidanfeldman 10y ago
The way we operate is that agencies come to us to do projects (or we initiate shared services like cloud.gov), so we don't exactly get to pick anything we want. That being said, there is a lot of freedom within the projects we have t
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by aidanfeldman 10y ago
https://chat.18f.gov/?channel=devops-public , actually. EDIT: Gaaah, sorry, down right now for reasons. Will post here again when it's back up. Sorry!
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My testimony to New York City Council on why open source is good for government(medium.com)
2 points by aidanfeldman 11y ago|0 comments
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by aidanfeldman 11y ago
Will post here and tweet from https://twitter.com/18F once it's up.
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Table of Contents plugin for Bootstrap(afeld.github.io)
2 points by aidanfeldman 11y ago|0 comments
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by aidanfeldman 11y ago
Correct – this is specifically for use by federal agencies. _Member of 18F._
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by aidanfeldman 11y ago
https://github.com/18F/CMS.gov-developer :-)
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by aidanfeldman 11y ago
Those teams definitely exist in agencies (GSA included), but we (18F) are managing ATOs internally for our projects, and are working on tooling to clarify, simplify, and automate the process. https://github.com/18F/cont
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by aidanfeldman 12y ago
Member of 18F here. Not sure about USDS, but we get "public trust", which is basically the step below clearance. Basically means "stuff that isn't public yet". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secur
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Thinkful's guide to Ruby on Rails for beginners(thinkful.com)
5 points by aidanfeldman 12y ago|0 comments
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by aidanfeldman 12y ago
One that I wrote, written in Ruby: http://magickly.afeld.me/ Powers http://mustachify.me :3)
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by aidanfeldman 12y ago
A similar app I worked on, which focuses on extensibility: http://magickly.afeld.me/
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JavaScript test framework comparison(coderwall.com)
1 points by aidanfeldman 12y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: GitHub Invite, an app to make adding large groups to your org easier(github-invite.herokuapp.com)
3 points by aidanfeldman 12y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: a gem for rendering GitHub Flavored Markdown in your Rails app(github.com)
3 points by aidanfeldman 13y ago|0 comments
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GitHub Glossary(help.github.com)
40 points by aidanfeldman 13y ago|11 comments
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by aidanfeldman 13y ago
A friend of mine does sonification research and crosses it with musical composition... very approachable NPR story on it: http://www.npr.org/2013/02/10/171639280/want-to-create-a-spa...
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Hacker Hours DIY Guide(github.com)
1 points by aidanfeldman 13y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Rails Interview Questions(github.com)
1 points by aidanfeldman 14y ago|0 comments
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by aidanfeldman 14y ago
Ha, nice. Was just thinking of writing something like this for my g/f who is learning HTML/CSS but keeps breaking stuff editing live sites over FTP.
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Junior Developer panel discussion NYC on Rails(aidan.jux.com)
1 points by aidanfeldman 14y ago|0 comments
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by aidanfeldman 14y ago
1a) not all API calls require a secret
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by aidanfeldman 14y ago
that's kind of the point. CORS just tells the browser to block the response, so this proxies the request and simply changes the headers to avoid that restriction.
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by aidanfeldman 14y ago
point taken. as long as nodejitsu provides free hosting, though, im happy to keep it free.
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by aidanfeldman 14y ago
feel free to download the source to reimplement or host your own
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by aidanfeldman 14y ago
no commercial version planned - I threw it up because it was something I was going to use (to build hackerhours.org), and figured it would be useful to others as well
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by aidanfeldman 14y ago
1a) feel free to download the source and host yourself or write three lines of PHP 1b) not if you use the AJAX version - any response will come in as a string, so just don't eval() 2) the limit is really how many concurrent connections Node
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by aidanfeldman 14y ago
It was quick for me to make and it doesn't really require maintenance - feel free to donate to the EFF in honor of the project. In terms of scalability, the app is doing very little processing so it's really just a matter of how many concur

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