Understandably everyone is upset about what "DOGE" is doing. But on top of those harms, the killing of USDS (or at least ending its core mission) is also a real harm.
Although overshadowed by Kubernetes elsewhere in the industry, I suspect that Pivotal's Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service (PaaS)--which the US General Services Administration's (GSA) internal digital transformation consultancy, 18F, adopted in 2015 significantly influenced the software delivery philosophy of the federal government by making trivial heretofore disastrously cumbersome provisioning, staging, and deployment processes. The step away from hand-provisioned virtual machines to elastic, accommodating environments may have made agile development possible in federal offices, bringing our government into the 21st century, only fifteen years late.
I distinctly remember the switch from "here's your VM" to "here's my code," and--as an application developer--I never want to go back.
"Internal team, what's your current greatest pain point?" -> Make that easier / faster / better
I could be wrong and maybe tons of democrat voters want to see this… But what I’m seeing online indicates otherwise.
They voted cuz they like daddy trump, cuz he tells it like it is, or some other similar cult bullshit.
The amount of leopards-eating-face, while satisfying, is also overwhelmingly sad in its significant blast radius for those of us that knew what we were getting into, but had no choice but to go along for the horrible ride.
Yes, this is what was voted in: demolition of the existing adminstrative state, and the collapse of America's reputation as a world leader (to be replaced as the world Bully).
But I hardly think this is what voters actually wanted.
>My tax dollars are better spent not having a website in most of these cases.
Blame your rep for it then. We don't set the budget. We vote in people we trust are in our best interest to set such spending.
huh?
That said, I have close access to the people managing one such portal here in Brazil, and I can't even convince them not to use Google Analytics. So, yeah, it would be great if we could make them use simple and clear text on static files. It's just not the most important "great thing" we can accomplish.