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by lobsang 2y ago
Maybe I missed it, but I was surprised there was no mention of passwords. Mandatory password composition rules (excluding minimum length) and rotating passwords as well as all attempts at "replacing passwords" are inherintly dumb
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by lobsang 2y ago
The identity side has allways been a problem (P)politically and technically. I think the original GDS was completely correct in basically forcing services not to have them, they are unnecessary for almost/all transactional inerteractio
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by lobsang 2y ago
I'm genuinely curious if people still think gov.uk is a good example - or I guess, as good as it was. I'm slightly biased from past experience but my feeling is a lot of the critical thinking that went into gov.uk has been lost. I
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The Malham Dig (2016)(mudinmyhair.co.uk)
33 points by lobsang 4y ago|1 comments
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by lobsang 4y ago
Not quite web 1.0 but I do wonder if there's a market for services that are closer to early web 2.0 products. For example something closer to Facebook circa 2006. No infinite scroll, a simple timeline, basic media sharing. Would it be
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by lobsang 5y ago
So, does anyone have a recommended alternative for a mail provider with support for custom domain names? Like a lot of people this is literally the only reason I have a legacy workspace account. Also, I guess, any recommendations for a dece
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by lobsang 5y ago
Unfortunately, lots has changed GDS itself is now 2 or 3 times the size and each department employs their own teams of DDAT experts. GDS is just another government bureaucracy at this point. Mores the shame.
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by lobsang 5y ago
Sir Francis Maude and the team he had around him untill about 2016. I don't have the links to hand but there was some really great thinking going into what it meant to provide government services online at the time. Unfortunately when
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by lobsang 5y ago
There isn't actually anything close to a standard user account for gov.uk Again one of the original goals was that services shouldn't require a persistent account. Unfortunately that makes sense in 80% of cases but misses some imp
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by lobsang 5y ago
GDS used to recommend matomo, especially for services with 'sensitive' content (each service on gov.uk is actually developed, hosted and deployed separately). I know the foreign office used it, unfortunately the trend amongst the
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by lobsang 5y ago
GDS have done some excellent work in the past, especially around usability and design. Unfortunately since the various senior leaders have left and it's moved further into government/cabinet office they have increasingly started t
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Ask HN: Where to find short term remote development contracts
2 points by lobsang 5y ago|0 comments
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by lobsang 6y ago
You could use <article /> instead (which I probably would). Jest tested it using dev tools, seems to work.
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by lobsang 6y ago
This, although I would call it the 'enterprise' model. This is how teams in the UK Gov are structured (infact we have more roles [52 at last count]) and its horrible. Aside from the lack of ownership and autonomy at an individual
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by lobsang 6y ago
I think some of the comments so far here and in the artice might be missing the point - not helped by the use of word UX or the common interpreation as meaning UI. I think the author is advocating that you start with understanding the expec
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by lobsang 6y ago
Conversely I've worked with lots of designers who also suck at UX. I think the first paragraph nails it. The people who are good at UX are the people who have the benefit of testing designs with users and iterating on them. Either for
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Ask HN: Risks for New Projects
1 points by lobsang 6y ago|0 comments
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by lobsang 6y ago
I can definately understand the desire to have a USB-A port, its probably still the most common connector for keyboards, mice, external drives etc. HDMI would also be nice to support most common display devices without the need for a dongle
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by lobsang 6y ago
How have you implemented the heatmaps and screen recording - looks like magic
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by lobsang 6y ago
"Can't is the won't of the people who don't" remember getting told this as a kid by my mum or grandma. Didn't seem to stick though...
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by lobsang 6y ago
I find the difficult thing with this advise is that people always want to skip step 1. From my experiance once you introduce the principle of refactoring repeated code into functions no one wants to repeat code and will go to great length t
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Ask HN: How do you document long term products
19 points by lobsang 6y ago|4 comments