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> If they'd just stuck with what worked instead of chasing the shiny glimmer of modern web dev they wouldn't be in this exact situation. I'm going to think ab
by Telemakhos 2y ago
> If they'd just stuck with what worked instead of chasing the shiny glimmer of modern web dev they wouldn't be in this exact situation.
I'm going to think about that sentence for the rest of the day.
- alabastervlog 2y ago"Dad, why did government services suddenly collapse to 1920s levels, in the 2020s?" "Well, son, the agencies chased the shiny glimmer of modern web dev."
- superkuh 2y agoIt's a fun mischarecterization. But the old sites were/are far more functional and less fragile. A single animated gif of the CONUS radar, for example, is way better user experience, incomparibly less fragile and easy to host, than a complex javascript application and associated backend databases, servers, etc. Just put the gif on akami, host the simple static html on noaa servers and it lasts a decade with no one touching it. It was how it worked for near 20 years. But re: your mischaracterization, I thought I was clearly saying that they'd find another way to attack politically. It's just that the modern fragile web setup made NOAA particularly vulnerable.