They're behind U.S. Web Design System (USWDS)? This is going away?

USWDS have a cool palette system where color pairs from their palette have predictable WCAG color contrast (unlike in e.g. Tailwind's default palette), but I rarely hear of projects using USWDS colors:

https://designsystem.digital.gov/design-tokens/color/overvie...

> We call the difference in grade between any two colors the magic number. Magic numbers have the following contrast implications:

> A magic number of 40+ results in WCAG 2.0 AA Large Text contrast (example: gray-90 and indigo-warm-50v).

Yep. I’ve been subscribed to get emails when application to their jobs open, because they really represented a portion of the government that I thought was doing good work and was an area I could contribute meaningfully to (given my skillset). I never made the jump, it was such a large paycut and iirc looked like it’d require relocation, but I’d like to think I might in the future (if it ever comes back).

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it"

This applies equally to institutions and individuals, so from investors to CEOs to politicians to tech community leaders to individuals picking where they work, this is a very "interesting" time

Both the USDS and PIF programs were inspiring to me as they were almost like a New Deal for digital natives & coders. They did a good job of attracting smart hard workers to be underpaid for unglamorous & often-frustrating but impactful work. A lot of good people!

I wanted to work for them since Obama announced it, but they didn’t pay as well as a big funded private corp startup. If I was a bit older and more comfortable with my savings I would have.

I would have loved serving my country and working on software as a way to give back.

We'll live on in people's memories and hearts. Thank you.

I wanted to join them some day. Hopefully they will be back.

I wanted to join them a few years ago but I wasn’t in the right life position to do so. I was hoping to one day in the near future. Maybe that day will one day come again.

I shared it because I am still sad about the loss of USDS. I wanted to join it some day. I am holding out hope it will be back one day.

As far as I know the US one is heavily inspired by the UK one.

The UK kind of pioneered doing digital services in government well with GDS, 10+ years ago.

Some of the people who were central to the effort have gone to consult other governments on how to do the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Digital_Service

Hi dang can I ask do redundant links get penalty on top list? I noticed when you commented this the post dropped down the front page quite a bit

(also thank you for all you do here)