Andrew Nacin

@nacin

Lead Developer. Fixing government digital services at the U.S. Digital Service . Tweets are my own.

Washington, D.C.
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    25 Aug 2019

    My brother and I lost our dad this week. He was killed in a horrible, senseless car accident, hit by a suspected drunk driver while just trying to do his job, delivering the mail in Enfield, Connecticut. He was 59, far too young.

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  2. Retweeted
    2 Feb 2016

    Teleconference logistics are the worst. I’m pretty sure when I enter Hell, the devil will say, “Hi, who just joined?”

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  3. Retweeted
    Mar 21

    In “Contagion,” a blogger pumped forsythia as a fake cure for the disease as a way to profit from the crisis. In 2020 it’s the President of the United States doing the pumping.

    HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE & AZITHROMYCIN, taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine. The FDA has moved mountains - Thank You! Hopefully they will BOTH (H works better with A, International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents).....
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  4. Retweeted
    Mar 20

    Intelligence officials reported that China appeared to be minimizing the outbreak and said swift action could be needed to contain the virus. Despite the warnings, Trump continued to play down the threat the virus posed to Americans.

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  5. Retweeted
    Mar 12

    We have a social safety net it’s just not for you

    BREAKING: Stocks jump from session lows as Fed announces it will pump more than $500 billion into short-term bank funding, expand types of security purchases
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  6. Retweeted
    Mar 12

    In global disaster movies, there’s always a scientist who’s like, WE HAVE TO ACT NOW OR PEOPLE WILL DIE and some government guy who’s like, YOU’RE BLOWING THIS OUT OF PROPORTION and I’m like, NO ONE WOULD REACT TO INFO LIKE THAT IN REAL LIFE. My apologies to those movies.

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  7. Feb 5

    The facts stated in this article could be said about the security of pretty much any piece of software. And yes, that’s also a problem, but it’s important to put it in context.

    NEW: We obtained the smartphone app behind the fiasco and had it analyzed. Turns out a skilled hacker could intercept — and even change — vote tallies and other sensitive data if they wanted to. My latest w/
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  8. Feb 3

    Lots of “cybersecurity experts” being quoted everywhere, but just ask any software engineer, product manager, or designer who has tried in vain to work with the DNC or any state Democratic Party and you’ll learn real quickly why this is a clusterfuck.

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  9. Jan 13

    does this count as blogging?

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  10. Jan 13

    My friends and I wrote a thing.

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  11. Retweeted
    27 Dec 2019

    my only comment on the “work nights and weekends” discourse is if I wanted advice on how to change the world, I’d listen to someone who actually has

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  12. Retweeted
    17 Dec 2019

    This is one of the best essays on Silicon Valley and its soulless pursuit of $$$ that I have read in a long time. "Too much American ingenuity is chasing problems that simply don’t matter."

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  13. Retweeted
    21 Nov 2019

    I had the honor & privilege of writing about what excites me the most in tech these days on ✨💙 Unsurprisingly, I wrote about political stuff 😅

    Embrace the Political
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  14. 13 Nov 2019

    Because if it’s two things we’ll need after a near-apocalyptic event, it’s seeds to restart agriculture, and QR codes of open source software.

    2:27
    Deep within an Arctic mountain in Svalbard, Norway your open source code can be stored for generations to come in the GitHub Arctic Code Vault. Get your code in by 02/02/2020.
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    4 Nov 2019

    What’s it like when two long-time remote tech worker friends just want to catch up, you ask?

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  16. Retweeted
    2 Nov 2019

    Last night a man who specifically works in WP asked me if I had been “dragged here” by the man I was standing next to. 🙃 He might see this and feel embarrassed, idk, but y’all should know this is what we deal with, even in a position like mine.

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    1 Nov 2019

    WordCamp US day 1 is a wrap, for everyone but who toils at his keyboard evermore.

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  18. 31 Oct 2019

    I was at the Nationals’ epic Game 5 NLDS collapse in 2012 where it all began. I watched history repeat itself in 2016 & 2017. And every time, and I would feel sad, and then we’d have to laugh, as they never should have let Teddy win. The baseball gods never forget.

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  19. 31 Oct 2019

    Part of me wishes the Nationals could have continued to be held to account for the Curse of Teddy. If it’s any consolation, they are 0-3 in World Series games where they let Teddy win. 🙃

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  20. 30 Oct 2019

    Watching the Nationals lose three games at home was not the most fun, but my goodness, they won the World Series anyway. What a series. – at Nationals Park

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  21. 30 Sep 2019

    Thanks for so many well-wishes over the last month. Bittersweet birthday today. My dad would have sent me a funny greeting card. Instead, my friends stepped in and sent me a bunch. ✉️❤️

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