Who....who sits through this?
https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=170425_GX_25b64c08cae4a67f692f40af119d0362-r:1-c:0 …
/cc @robwormald
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Replying to @allafarce @slightlylate
i'm not entirely sure what's happening here, but it appears that its compiling jade templates at runtime...
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Replying to @robwormald @allafarce
Does it really matter what choices came after "let's use a JS framework!" on a civic website? This story was a tragedy from page 1.
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Replying to @slightlylate @allafarce
let's keep this honest - they are running a *nodeJS* templating language in the browser at runtime. before any frameworks get involved.
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Replying to @robwormald @allafarce
Yep! It's a fractal of unexamined choices.
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The fonts are the very worst part. The JS choices (of all sorts) merely echo the same tech privilege: fast devices & networks *assumed*
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Replying to @slightlylate @allafarce
this warning is in the bundle 258 times. we could probably make this 100x better with about an hour of work. how do we find and help?pic.twitter.com/cFp98jA5KE
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assertion: if all gov code like this was FOSS, the time we're spending tweeting about this could be far better spent improving things
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Replying to @robwormald @allafarce
The UK already practices this: https://alphagov.github.io/
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...and i got to see firsthand how effective it was when @phae was leading their front-end work. It *can* be better.
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