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πŸ†• blog! β€œAre we 'appy about change?”

Shortly before I left the Civil Service in 2023, I made a complete fool of myself. Someone on Slack was discussing their department's app and I (rather snidely) asked why it was an app rather than a website. After all, one of the seminal blog posts of GDS was about not building apps. In response, […]

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in reply to Terence Eden

About most of the things you claim the web can't do, you're technically wrong, the very worst kind of wrong:

https://fugu-tracker.web.app/

The only reason they aren't pervasively available is Apple, but instead of arguing the side of open tech, you're folding. Deeply disappointed.

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