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playbook

The Digital Services Playbook

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7Mentions
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1.6KGitHub stars
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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year7 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-08-11 19:02:55 UTC to 2021-10-21 22:34:16 UTC.

012342014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2021

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303

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"Blind Trust" > "Use by US government officials to avoid conflicts of interest" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_trust https://www.oge.gov/ ... If you want to help, you must throw all of your startup equity away. ... No, you may not co-brand with that company (which is not complicit with your agenda). ... Besides, I'm not even eligible for duty: you can't hire me. ... Maybe I could be more helpful from competitive private industry. ... How can a government hire prima donna talent like Iron Man? ... Is it criminal to start a solvent, sustainable business to solve government problems, for that one customer? ... Which operations can a government - operating with or without competition - solve most energy-efficiently and thus cost-effectively? Looks like single-payer healthcare and IDK what else? (Edit) US Digital Services Playbook: https
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://github.com/usds/playbook From https://www.nist.gov/itl/applied-cybersecurity/nice/nice-fra... : > "NIST Special Publication 800-181 revision 1, the Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework), provides a set of building blocks for describing the tasks, knowledge, and skills that are needed to perform cybersecurity work performed by individuals and teams. Through these building blocks, the NICE Framework enables organizations to develop their workforces to perform cybersecurity work, and it helps learners to explore cybersecurity work and to engage in appropriate learning activities to develop their knowledge and skills. From "NIST Special Publication 800-181 Revision 1: Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework)" (2020) https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-181r1: > 3.1 Using Existing Task, Knowledge, and Skill (TKS) Statements (Edit) FedNOW should - like mCBDC - really consider implementing Interledger Protocol (ILP) for RTGS "Real-Time Gross Settlement" https://interledger.org/developer-tools/get-started/overview... From https://interledger.org/rfcs/0032-peering-clearing-settlemen... : > Peering, Clearing and Settling; The Interledger network is a graph of nodes (connectors) that have peered with one another by establishing a means of exchanging ILP packets and a means of paying one another for the successful forwarding and delivery of the packets.
In Fed to ban policymakers from owning individual stocks
> I've worked with state government as a volunteer advisor. They're still developing everything with waterfall. Only contracting out to big firms, even if it's a small project. Lawmakers and aides sit in a room and write down what is to be done. The US Digital Services Playbook likely needs few modifications for use at state and local levels? https://github.com/usds/playbook#readme "PLAY 1: Understand what people need" https://playbook.cio.gov/#play1 "PLAY 4: Build the service using agile and iterative practices" https://playbook.cio.gov/#play4 Do [lawmakers and aides] make good "Product Owners", stakeholders, [incentivized, gamified] app feedback capability utilizers? GitLab has Service Desk: you can email into the service desk email without having an account as necessary to create and follow up on [software] issues in GitHub/BitBucket/
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GitLab/Gitea project management sytems. > That's changing at the federal level. They know they've got a problem. Why shouldn't federal software be as easy to use as the best web software? If you've ever tried to use it you will quickly learn that isn't the case. "PLAY 3: Make it simple and intuitive" https://playbook.cio.gov/#play3 > Some sites will only work with IE and no other browser. Developers in two years can make a huge difference for making the government be more agile and operate better. US Web Design Standards https://designsystem.digital.gov/ From https://github.com/uswds/uswds#browser-support : >> We’ve designed the design system to support older and newer browsers through progressive enhancement. The current major version of the design system (2.0) follows the 2% rule: we officially support any browser above 2% usage as observed by analytics.usa.gov. Currently, this means that the design system version 2.0 supports the newest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer 11 and up. > I always suggest joining a local Code For America brigade. Work on a local project and see if it is for you. If you find yourself drawn to it then consider applying for a two year stint with the federal government. You can really make a difference! From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_for_America : >> [...] described Code for America as "the technology world's equivalent of the Peace Corps or Teach for America". The article goes on to say, "They bring fresh blood to the solution process, deliver agile coding and software development skills, and frequently offer new perspectives on the latest technology—something that is often sorely lacking from municipal government IT programs. This is a win-win for cities that need help and for technologists that want to give back and contribute to lower government costs and the delivery of improved government service."
In White House Launches US Digital Corps
Watching the U.S. Digital Services `WhiteHouse Playbook` repository has been interesting. Strange really. In the recent post on Wired with Snowden's recording [1] about why he leaked information, there is a call that seems to be answerable by things like GitHub repository activity. It at least feels like the public and government are finding a way to leverage technology as a means of cooperating on development of our social structure. https://github.com/WhiteHouse/playbook There is a lot of activity, to the point where one begins to feel that government activity is actually just another use of git like any other task. Illusion or not, it is starting to feel like the government is interactive. [1] http://www.wired.com/2014/08/edward-snowden/
In 10k active government users on GitHub

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