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Delivered effective, efficient, and secure digital services for the American people until we were forced to stop on March 1. Our website: https://18f.org/ #AltGov
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We’re receiving word that General Services Administration leadership are firing more people tonight. Our dedicated colleagues should be eating dinner with their families or putting their kids to bed, not having their lives upended. The public will suffer, too. We stand with all of you.

submitted 3 hours ago • 33 comments

Thank you, truly ❤️

submitted 9 hours ago • 8 comments

Mourning 18F’s elimination as a former employee but even more so as a former 18F agency customer. Unlike DOGE, 18F did the hard work of cultural transformation and sharing their methods with other Feds as they helped improve services. They weren’t just techies, they were teachers.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

A compliment of the highest honor. We will never stop caring about the public and our government partners.

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was just demolished by Musk’s team. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 million. A thread about 18F:

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments


You might know us from the guides we have put together, like the de-risking guide and the UX guide. Governments all around the world have used them to make services more accessible and add more value to the public — all while saving millions of dollars. You can still find them here: 18f.org/guides/

submitted 11 hours ago • 16 comments

USWDS (like Login.gov) “graduated” from 18F some years ago and are maintained by a wonderful team of humans who did not get fired. We do not know what will happen to the NPM account.

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

Let's gooo! 18f.org

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Just the other day, some members were sharing how much they loved working on eAPD, too.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

The feeling is mutual 💕

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Wiped out or fired up? ❤️‍🔥Thank you so much to @matteowong.bsky.social for writing about us!

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

submitted 2 days ago • 704 comments