Labs members go to Canada, eat poutine and Paultag dazzles with an A+ talk. It's Sunlight's recap of PyCon 2014!
Continue readingDATA Act passes Senate, President’s desk on the horizon.
The DATA Act passed the Senate by unanimous consent this afternoon, moving it one step closer to the President's desk.
Continue readingI learned basic JSON in the morning and made a silly Twitter bot with Sunlight’s API in the afternoon
It doesn't take a full-time software developer to build tools on Sunlight's data.
Continue readingNo Justice Roberts, the Internet can’t do government’s job
Chief Justice John Roberts thinks the Internet can save democracy from big money. As some of the Internet's most devoted users, we disagree.
Continue readingHow bad is disclosure at the FEC? Worse than Justice Roberts thinks
Justifying the McCutcheon decision on the basis of healthy disclosure is reckless when it is well known that the government isn't demanding it or providing it in a useful way.
Continue readingHow we built notifications in Congress for iOS
We recently launched a new version of [Congress for iOS](http://cngr.es/ios) with push notifications for the legislators and bills you follow. Find out how we built the service.
Continue readingThree Things You Need to know About Bitcoin
The Internet has been an excellent vehicle for starting all kinds of fun, interesting, exciting and profitable things to do.... View Article
Continue readingHouse.gov Goes Offline
House.gov had some DNS woes today, but it looks like things are better now.
Continue readingOpening data: Have you checked your pipes?
Almost every technical project (and every idea for one) has an initial cost known as ETL. So why aren't we talking about it?
Continue readingA little math could make identifiers a whole lot better
Government is understandably wary of publishing personal identifiers, though they're often vital to transparency. Fortunately, there are technological approaches to this problem --government should embrace them.
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