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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Replying to @slightlylate @allafarce
in 'merka this needs to be about
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idea: what if every USG website had a service worker. how much would THAT save US taxpayers? we could probably figure that out, right?
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USDS is trying but fed/state split makes things harder: https://playbook.cio.gov/
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