One piece of 18F that I've always appreciated is their published API standards - https://github.com/18F/api-standards https://github.com/18F/api-standards. They

One piece of 18F that I've always appreciated is their published API standards - https://github.com/18F/api-standards https://github.com/18F/api-standards. They spawned it off the frequently mentioned White House API standards, and it phrases a lot of the opinions well without being preachy. But more than anything else, this made me feel like there are real humans behind 18F. So I wish them all the best and hope this article (and ones like it) falls into the camp of "Haters gotta hate" and just inspires them to find more visible success.