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Just 3 down from this post in my feed.
ELI5?
Likely nothing illegal. Quite a bit of bad dev habits. Some concerning security fuck ups, including pulling in JavaScript from a server they don’t control. Injecting JavaScript to subvert cookie/gdpr/login/etc popups on third party sites.
Just generally bad things to do, especially in a government provided app.
Anyone have any idea who the devs are? According to the owner tag in the code, it’s: https://devfortyfive.com/ but there’s no information on the people behind it.
Some guy in Utah, apparently. The company was registered on the 18th of March.
Via Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code Business Registration search which did not allow a direct link to individual results.
So according to that, the company’s address (both physical and mailing) is 3739 E Sandstone Way, Washington, UT, 84780-1952.
(from https://maps.app.goo.gl/q48YJf3XndfY5Ges8)
…yeah, honestly that’s about what I expected.It’s a rental. I’m wondering if it’s not basically a front. The guy listed is a
22 year old(edit: age is maybe not the same guy) “head of engineering” for a company owned/run by Blue Rocket Incorporated, which seems to typically be a parent company to a lot of places.
So…to be clear, this was formed just prior to the release of the app, and almost certainly the app was being developed by this person/group before then.
Sure would be good to know what public funds were used to pay for this app (I assume too much), and whether there was a bidding process (I assume there wasn’t), and whether this person is someone the decision-maker already had some relationship/connection to (I assume that was the case).
Because regardless of the public value of a tracking & propaganda window favoring one party (none), it would be completely shocking, just totally unheard of, if this was a corrupt overpayment and misuse of public funds to pay for substandard work to personal and political connections.
I mean, we didn’t just see this happen with Noem or anything.
Or maybe it was vibe coded in one day
Judging by the fact that tabs in the app go to webpages… seems like not much was probably spent in developing it.
Most transparent administration! /s
Yeah, having the real people behind it hidden is basically the norm for Trump admin.
Probably an openclaw server attached to Don Jr’s bank account.
It’s good information about how bad the app really is. People should not dismiss the information because of the crappy website complaints.
It’s really hard not to dismiss when having a seizure for just trying to read it.
I really wanted to read.
What happened? Apparently my crappy browser handled something for me.
It’s laggy as hell on my mobile phone. And it’s not a bad/cheap model.
The site is basically whitevtext on black background and some colored code snips.
It should scroll smooth on 1980’s Casio watch.
I’m on an S24 with Firefox. Wonder what’s causing the issues, it loads just fine and scrolls fine on my end.
Here you go, since we don’t want to trigger any seizures! https://sh.itjust.works/post/57582014
Weird. I have a “cheap” device on the legacy list, and apart from mild latency and general ugliness, I had no issues.
It seems like it’s only crappy on mobile, no isues on desktop here.
same, worked fine in Firefox on linux, with no-script and uBlock
Omg, another person who’s crazy enough to run noscript still, I thought I was the only one.
I run no script on both Firefox desktop and mobile. I’d much rather have to approve things to run, than have them run by default.
What’s wrong with no-script? I’ve been running it for years. It’s a lifesaver.
If one has it set to default-deny Javascript, a lot of websites don’t work, because many web developers don’t develop websites that work without Javascript today.
Historically, websites did a better job of falling back.
There’s dozens of us. Works great on mobile with NoScript, although the source code snippets don’t load. Since the article describes what they do anyway it’s still readable without them, and the excellent performance is worth leaving JS blocked.
I’m on my Pixel 9a and had zero problems with scrolling.
It works perfectly on mobile (Pixel 7) for me.
I can’t say anything about the content of this blog. It was horribly laggy to scroll on mobile device. And by horribly laggy, I mean like aunt’s 1986 vacation slide show on a projector while having dry cookies and tasteless off brand earl grey.
I’m sorry if it sounds rude but I had to bring this on out in the open. What even runs under the hood on that blog…
It’s a bit funny that it’s completely at odds with how they describe their goals (emphasis mine):
I am thereallo, a web developer who makes things look pretty and work smoothly >w< been building stuff since 2020, mostly frontend but i can do fullstack too! i use react, next.js, and tailwind css because they just work, and motion for animations that don’t feel plastic. i prototype in figma, steal components from shadcn/ui when i’m lazy, and deploy to vercel or cloudflare depending on the vibe~ i used to reverse engineer games (genshin leaks era lol) but now i just make websites that don’t suck. i know typescript, python, go, and dabbled in rust and lua. my goal is making ui that feels human such as smooth feedback, clear buttons, keyboard accessible, no confusing bs. mobile first always! outside coding i listen to vocaloid and play project sekai, which definitely influences my color choices uwu. oh and i care way too much about bundle sizes and performance. currently learning native ios/android development. hmu on discord or github if u wanna chat! ♡
I didn’t have any problem on my Android phone
It wasn’t horribly laggy on my Pixel but it definitely was less performant than a page like this should be.
Even if the effect didn’t lag, there’s almost no added benefit to it. The title is cut off, and the description is even worse.
If the author wanted to, they could have done something like this with no scripts, minimum effort, and probably zero lag.
(If OP’s website chugged for you, I’m curious whether this demo is seamlessly smooth. It is for me.)
Smooth as cub’s fur.
Holy shit, i thought i was gonna have a seizure first time i scrolled
Like its locked to 10fps
Worked fine for me, but I block ads and trackers on my home network so that probably helped.
runs perfectly fine on my laptop with firefox
Yea for me too, it appears to be something we the title header following your scroll. It’s super smooth just until it tries to pin it to the top.
Reader mode works until I realised that they did explain the pictures, so just referenced text I didn’t see.
Not a performance problem. My guess is, they (poorly) emulate native scrolling via JS on mobile. Probably for some progress feature or something.
JS disabled, scrolling works. Though it was only slightly laggy for me.
Unfortunately all of the code blocks are loaded after-the-fact with JS for some asinine reason (highlighting I’d understand… but why the actual text?), so disabling JS also disables all the code snippets on the page.
Definitely a performance problem, no HW acceleration on PC produces the same insanely stuttery scroll.
Btw, this site has no business doing (laggy) scrolling via JS on a fucking blog.
No JavaScript for you.AI vibe coded slop.
Pretty much exactly what I expected.
