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Bret Mogilefsky

@mogul@hachyderm.io

mastodon 4.6.6

#civictech #agile #product and #tech wrangler

Recently in the #WhiteHouse #CEQ and now speeding up #Permitting

... while still in the #US #GSA #TechnologyTransformationServices, overseeing #platforms and #compliance for grants and regulations...

...right after founding #clouddotgov at #18F and working on #datadotgov...

...right after surviving 16 years of the #ConsoleWars at #PlayStation

...right after 5 years of #GameDev as the lead programmer +co-designer of #GrimFandango at #LucasArts

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Joined March 16, 2024

GitHub:

https://github.com/mogul

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bretmogilefsky

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/bmogilefsky

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Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · Jul 05, 2026

Replying to @Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social

@Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social @carnage4life@mas.to Chief Design Officer of the United States

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · Jun 28, 2026

Replying to @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social was hoping to see a third "meta" button in there.

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · May 05, 2026

RE: @SeanCasten@mastodon.social

We can close our eyes and plug our ears, but the physics aren't waiting.

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · May 03, 2026

Replying to @SeanCasten@mastodon.social

@SeanCasten "Won't someone please think of the destruction of society's material demand for hydrocarbons!?"

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · May 02, 2026

Replying to @milla@mastodon.art

@milla @leaverou Magpies you say...?

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · May 01, 2026

Capitalism has failed us. This May Day the only stock I want to invest in is guillotines.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/01/ceo-pay-workers-minimum-wages

#MayDay #MayDayGeneralStrike

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · Apr 30, 2026

Replying to @krusynth@mastodon.publicinterest.town

@krusynth@mastodon.publicinterest.town I'm very sorry to hear this, Bill, you deserve better.

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · Apr 29, 2026

Replying to @Mastodon@mastodon.social

@Mastodon @imanijoy Step one, start with Phanpy as a new baseline of usability and build up from there. 😉

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · Apr 18, 2026

Replying to @mattsheffield@mastodon.social

@mattsheffield kinda feel like this belongs here https://hachyderm.io/@mogul/116412768335463383

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · Apr 16, 2026

RE: @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social

There's a full-scale attack on the ability to own and use general-purpose computing devices anonymously just percolating along, bit by bit.

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · Apr 15, 2026

Replying to @fatlimey@mastodon.gamedev.place

@fatlimey@mastodon.gamedev.place He reveals something powerful about creativity just by leaning into the uncanny valley and artificial timing as a constraining aesthetic.

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · Apr 15, 2026

Replying to @ancilevien74@piaille.fr

@ancilevien74 @ZachWeinersmith It's an easier form, duh!

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · Apr 08, 2026

Replying to @weatherwest@mastodon.social

@weatherwest It's amazing how little these sociopaths care about consequences when they know they won't live long enough to have to deal with them.

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · Mar 29, 2026

Replying to @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io

@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io You'll never guess which major media outlet gave inches to this same "movies are too woke, just look at the success of PHM!" tripe. 🙄 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/opinion/project-hail-mary-hollywood-fun-movies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.W1A.0T0K.SI9SwmctyUPs&smid=url-share #GiftLink

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · Mar 25, 2026

Replying to @ariel@front-end.social

@ariel Thanks for sharing! I've shared this with the USWDS lead, for whom accessibility is a primary concern.

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · Mar 24, 2026

A reflection on "being replaced": https://nearzero.software/p/warranty-void-if-regenerated

This is honestly a pretty reasonable and even desirable vision of what things might look like. I'd be pretty okay with being the local fix-it guy. I really enjoyed using my tech skills to help people solve problems when they wanted to use the college computing centers to get things done and didn't know what they didn't know. That's been valuable to me my whole career.

Whenever I work with an agent I'm on the lookout for those moments where someone without my experience and insight would have stopped or taken what came out at face-value and hobbled along with a crappier solution because they didn't know which parts were weak and needed further probing. Sometimes "how would applying the X pattern using prior art Y change the value of that solution" is all it takes to wind up with something much better.

It remains to be seen if the world will value the better solutions over the crappy-but-works solutions (the history of capitalism suggests no). But if that accumulated insight and know-how is useful in fixing up the crappy solutions when they break, so long as there's a living to be made at it, maybe that's okay.

I don't want to be a janitor constantly cleaning up messes, but I think I'd be okay with being Harry Tuttle.
https://youtu.be/VRfoIyx8KfU?si=MxwhkCmBA2IdrWEw

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · Mar 24, 2026

RE: @dangillmor@mastodon.social

I saw this in the wild. The Google discover feed showed me a headline for a 4h-old Guardian article where the Google link/headline said the Iranian leader Khamenei had been killed by a US bomb strike and I thought "Wow! Already? He's only just taken over for his dead dad!"

And that really would have been news except that wasn't what the article was about at all. It was about the US not knowing who to negotiate with now that they've overturned the anthill. It only referenced the killing of the _elder_ Khamenei at the start of the war a few weeks ago, and that reference was more than 3/4 of the way through the article, in background information. I was gob-smacked that Google would do such a thing. It's awful, a full betrayal.

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · Mar 16, 2026

Replying to @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com

@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com That was literally the first and only link about the Oscars that I clicked though, couldn't be happier.

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · Mar 07, 2026

Replying to @0xabad1dea__dup_153@infosec.exchange

@0xabad1dea Are you coughing now? See, it worked!

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · Feb 26, 2026

Replying to @glc@mastodon.online

@glc@mastodon.online @nixCraft@mastodon.social No need to complicate this. (source unknown to me)

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · Feb 25, 2026

Replying to @cheeaun@mastodon.social

@cheeaun @DavidMarzalC I feel like you could write a book about the path to creating a truly capable PWA.

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · Feb 25, 2026

Replying to @cheeaun@mastodon.social

@cheeaun I don't know if I can take another outstanding feature. What have we done to deserve this!?

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · Feb 14, 2026

Replying to @jbz@indieweb.social

@jbz@indieweb.social Just gonna put this out there for anyone happening by who's in the Discord Diaspora:

Just like Mastodon, Matrix has federated homeservers, and you should not create your account on the main one unless you want your access to be contingent on yet another corpo-landlord's grace
If you choose to run your own homeserver, be aware that Synapse is a pain in the ass to operate, even for pros, so you might want to look into Continuwuity, which is less featureful but simple.

https://indieweb.social/@jbz/116071230520962128

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · Feb 13, 2026

Replying to @cheeaun@mastodon.social

@cheeaun I COMPLETELY missed this. Thanks for posting this!

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · Feb 04, 2026

Replying to @kyleford@hachyderm.io

@kyleford Daemon/Freedom has yet to be wrong. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6665847-daemon

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · Nov 29, 2025

Replying to @Viss@mastodon.social

@Viss@mastodon.social @waldoj@mastodon.social

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · Nov 08, 2025

Replying to @GrimmReality@beige.party

@GrimmReality@beige.party https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/235bbd35-7864-491d-80eb-e2fa93af358b

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · Nov 21, 2024

Replying to @darwinwoodka@mastodon.social

@darwinwoodka@mastodon.social @darius@friend.camp https://hachyderm.io/@mogul/113523254106214662

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · Nov 21, 2024

Replying to @darius@friend.camp

@darius@friend.camp Wow Mace is trash. After the silence beforehand, I was heartened to see the very strong "BOOOO!" at the end.

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · Aug 11, 2024

Replying to @acegikmo@mastodon.social

@acegikmo@mastodon.social That's pretty badass.

Bret Mogilefsky @mogul@hachyderm.io · Jul 31, 2024

Replying to @sarajw@front-end.social

@sarajw@front-end.social @phanpy@hachyderm.io You can also set your subscription to a user to show only their original posts, but not their boosts. There's not a middle ground, unfortunately (eg "X% of boosts" or "no more than X boosts per day"). Phanpy's "Catch-up" feature is great for this, though... You can peruse only original posts, separate from boosts, and you can see who is doing a lot of either, and just decide "you know what, no, enough out of you", skip reading, and then easily mute them for a while.

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