I agree 100% with everything in this article... at which point I just can't bring myself to not call them out for using Medium--a centralized hosted platform--when there were numerous available white-labeled options that would have allowed them to both maintain control over their branding and viewer's information as well as allow for future upgrades without lock-in. They didn't even set up a custom domain name, even though Medium supports that option. (And to the extent to which this is "just Jennifer Pahlka" and not "Code for America", the same arguments apply.)