Charles Worthington

Product designer and software dev working to deliver better services to Veterans. CTO @deptvetaffairs. Previously co-creator of @usds - views = mine

[Charles Worthington @cew821]

VA’s new mobile app just passed 1 million downloads, with a 4.8 App Store rating. @DeptVetAffairs is quietly delivering one of the government’s biggest tech success stories. How’d we do it? 🧵

[Charles Worthington @cew821]

There are only two types of organizations in the world:

1) software companies
2) companies that haven’t yet realized they are software companies

[Charles Worthington @cew821]

Smart systems of record providers will make it super easy for agents of all kinds to work with them, or they will be quickly replaced. The walled garden strategy is DOA.

[Zain Hoda @zain_hoda]

https://t.co/jLDNmgG3fY

[Charles Worthington @cew821]

@RMcEvoy128 @haydennbmx23 Wow! Interesting moment. Was he trying to show her up with a “flop” and accidentally hurt himself? Youth sports can get so wild

[Charles Worthington @cew821]

There’s an entire generation missing from technical public sector roles. Changing this requires new approaches. Excited to partner with @USTechForce

[Scott Kupor @skupor]

Saying goodbye is such sweet sorrow, but alas we must move FWD. Read my latest @USOPM blog post here: https://t.co/RFA9ADcwQl

[Charles Worthington @cew821]

Full story here https://t.co/vFH1KMhe4u

[Charles Worthington @cew821]

Shipping AI hits differently when you’re doing it for Veterans and their doctors.

[Charles Worthington @cew821]

Love all the Christmas traditions like pretending raw broccoli is an acceptable food to eat

[Charles Worthington @cew821]

In the year of our lord 2025, @Apple Siri believes this is one grocery item, not a list of four things

[alli @sonofalli]

babe are you ok? it’s already q4 and you’ve barely touched your “2025 roadmap”

[Charles Worthington @cew821]

This year @dcpublicschools implemented a ban on phones and all screened devices. Caught up w a friend who teaches High School who said the change has been transformative and given him more optimism than he’s had in years. This is awesome, I hope schools nationwide follow suit!

[tobi lutke @tobi]

I heard this internal memo of mine is being leaked right now, so here it is:

[Charles Worthington @cew821]

AI-assisted software development represents the biggest opportunity to improve government digital services in my time working on the problem so far.

We need lots of civic tech teams trying things, and sharing what they’ve learned.

[Charles Worthington @cew821]

Remember when every Target in America had an entire photo lab with machines the size of cars and a misfit crew of pirate teens overseeing the photographic output of the whole community?

[Charles Worthington @cew821]

Good write up of @flightaware ’s implementation of an auth service. Interesting they decided to roll their own in Go, and view that as lower cost than using a SaaS API for auth.

https://t.co/nuSJxIf6WW

[Charles Worthington @cew821]

“In the United States … our elite class has basically decided that they don't want to work on any of the problems that matter. They want to make monkey JPEGs. And that's really annoying.”

This is a great interview.

https://t.co/RoTFAlOaDF

[Jacob Turner @TheJacobTurner]

Youth sports are out of control.

I was the 9th overall pick in the MLB Draft.

I played professionally for more than 10 years.

Here is how I am navigating youth sports as a parent to four kids:

[Charles Worthington @cew821]

This was an interesting read from @ShopifyEng. VA’s mobile stack uses a similar architecture (React Native + rails API that also powers the web services) https://t.co/Wh4hkxu95C

[Charles Worthington @cew821]

Interesting that Apple has not been able to use AI to stop random iCloud accounts from spamming things like this, while at the same time shipping a broken notification summary feature to tens of millions of people.

[Charles Worthington @cew821]

@yescynfria You should check out an app called Footpath - it does this and only this and does it well!