joelanman

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by joelanman 9y ago
That's because there was massive protest against a centralised ID system in the UK, which led to it being shut down. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/may/27/theresa-may...
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by joelanman 9y ago
this is the quintessential Hacker News comment
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Scaling Rails through 650M requests in 5 days: Trump State Visit petition(unboxed.co)
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GOV.UK Service Toolkit: everything you need to build a service in one place(gds.blog.gov.uk)
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by joelanman 10y ago
I have a degree in animation. We definitely covered a lot of computer stuff, but there was a lot of film theory, life drawing, that kind of thing. I now do interaction design, and there was a lot I learnt in animation that's helpful. M
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We've updated the radios and checkboxes on GOV.UK(designnotes.blog.gov.uk)
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by joelanman 10y ago
On a similar note, I started making a thumbnail view: http://www.git-browser.com
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by joelanman 10y ago
Recently started making http://www.git-browser.com - browse repos by thumbnail.
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by joelanman 10y ago
I work at GDS - that sounds broken, can you let me know where that link to localhost is?
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by joelanman 10y ago
it's real: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10795344
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Why we use progressive enhancement to build Gov.uk(gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk)
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The problems with forcing regular password expiry(cesg.gov.uk)
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Interaction Design Awards 2016 – Winners(awards.ixda.org)
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Writing content for everyone(gds.blog.gov.uk)
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Show HN: BestWritten – Books of 2015 lists(bestwritten.com)
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by joelanman 11y ago
To be clear, the logic I'm suggesting is to hide the text on the Show page only. The text would still be in the title in the database, and shown everywhere else.
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Idea: on the Show page, remove 'Show HN' from the titles
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New password security guidance from UK Government(gov.uk)
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by joelanman 11y ago
Pete Cooke was responsible for a lot of great, great Spectrum games. I don't hear Micronaut One mentioned much, but to my mind it's the smoothest 3D game on the Speccy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfKUZRI90rI H
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by joelanman 11y ago
Little Computer People https://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/Little_Computer_People
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Government Service Design Manual – Gender and Sex(gov.uk)
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Burn your select tags – EpicFEL 2014 [video](youtube.com)
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Petition UK government and parliament(petition.parliament.uk)
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Introducing GOV.UK Verify(gov.uk)
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by joelanman 11y ago
"Unlike a true VM, a docker container does not also require a host OS" Shouldn't that be guest OS?
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by joelanman 11y ago
The point being made is at the bottom - progressive enhancement. If at least the html makes it across the wire, a progressively enhanced website will still "work": you can still read content, click links, submit forms http:/
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by joelanman 12y ago
That's why I said "aspects of". If I fully disagreed with a project and thought it was evil, I wouldn't work on it. However, that's not normally the case. There may be aspects I disagree with, and if you get to do r
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by joelanman 12y ago
That's an excellent point, and has happened with the UK GDS. With user research you can make a strong case: https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2014/06/20/i-fought-the-law-and-the-...
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by joelanman 12y ago
I work for the UK Government Digital Service - my views don't necessarily represent my employer. There are lots of comments here around the idea of whether you would work for a government if you disagreed with their political views. Wh
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by joelanman 12y ago
I use radio mode on Google Music, and follow various people on SoundCloud

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