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by gpmcadam 2653 days ago
How do you know that's one of the developers?
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corobo 2653 days ago
I thought the same thing - the company the person is CTO of builds the petitions website if you click through the link in their bio and then into their projects page

https://unboxed.co/product-stories/petitions/

e: This came out worded as if I was disproving, I'm agreeing with the grandparent comment and showing my working

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zero_iq 2653 days ago
It seems pretty plausible. His tweets give information about why the site crashed, some discussion about how the back-end works, and the company he claims to work for lists the Petitions website as one of their projects.
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ksec 2653 days ago
The whole site is actually open source. Running on Ruby Rails.

[1] https://github.com/alphagov/e-petitions

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