Why the MBTA Builds Custom software.

Author: mzagaja

_posts/2022-01-26-congress-goes-digital.md

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 - Protocol [has a good summary of Biden’s new customer experience executive order](https://www.protocol.com/policy/biden-customer-experience-order) that touches on the challenges of digitizing government.
 - [A software bug kept thousands of inmates in prison beyond their release date](https://kjzz.org/content/1660988/whistleblowers-software-bug-keeping-hundreds-inmates-arizona-prisons-beyond-release). Hard to read this one without feeling outraged.
 
-- Matt & The Code for Boston Team
+Matt & The Code for Boston Team
 
 ## Jobs
 ### [City of Boston: Chief Information Officer](https://city-boston.icims.com/jobs/21266/chief-information-officer/job?hub=8&mobile=false&width=1200&height=500&bga=true&needsRedirect=false&jan1offset=-300&jun1offset=-240)
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 * Testing framework updates
 * New API pull request.
 
-## Police Data Trust
+### Police Data Trust
 * Tapped out of backend tasks
 * Doing some testing before decide how to move forward
 * Work on connecting front to the backend
 * Working on getting public site up
 
-## Mattapan Mapping
+### Mattapan Mapping
 * Working on a Hasura/GraphQL backend
 * Design and content updates.
 
-## Legislative Testimony
+### Legislative Testimony
 * Back end data work from legislature data API
 * Front-end and design work.

_posts/2022-02-02-why-mbta-builds-custom-software.md

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+---
+title: Why the MBTA Builds Custom Software
+---
+Greetings Civic Hackers!
+
+I was excited to read [this twitter thread](https://twitter.com/mcplanner/status/1487886893744156672?s=21) about why the MBTA builds custom software. Ruth Miller does a great job of explaining what lead to that path and why it means the MBTA can provide better service to folks in Massachusetts.
+
+- [Why the free COVID test website wasn’t a dumpster fire](https://link.wired.com/view/5cec2547fc942d3ada0b2a4ffs9wr.1ykd/fd54ef7b)
+- [How some states are trying to upgrade their glitchy, outdated health care technology](https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/02/01/1075690142/how-some-states-are-trying-to-upgrade-their-glitchy-outdated-health-care-technol)
+
+Matt & The Code for Boston Team
+
+## Jobs
+### [AgileSix: UX Researchers](https://boards.greenhouse.io/agilesix/jobs/4900245003?gh_src=65f8cd433us)
+
+As a UX Researcher at Agile Six, you have a unique talent for bringing human-centered research methodologies to support the greater good. You have a passion for working with cross-functional teams to create products and services that improve government. You excel at performing independent research, collecting qualitative and quantitative data about users, shaping that data into understandable and actionable representations and artifacts. You want to bring your passion, experience, and talent to impactful projects that help improve people's lives, within a mission-driven company culture that lives its core values.
+
+## Project Updates
+
+### Clean Slate
+* Mass Recreational Consumer Council website work.
+* Testing framework updates
+
+### National Police Data Coalition
+* Working on deployments and user testing.
+
+### Mattapan Mapping
+* Working on a Hasura/GraphQL backend
+* Design and content updates.
+
+### Legislative Testimony
+* Back end data work from legislature data API
+* Front-end and design work.