Coding in the open makes better code
Writing about the work they did in March, David and Robin talk about the benefits of coding in the open.
We’ve released a recruitment guide for technical architects
GDS is recruiting for more technical architects and we want to attract some of the best talent out there. We’ve published a recruitment guide to provide information to candidates.
Disclosing a security issue upstream
As an Open Source community member, you are responsible for handling any security issues you identify. This post provides an example of a security issue we encountered and resolved by working with the project security team.
Retiring the Business Support API
We’ve come to the decision that as of April 2017, the Business Support API will be deprecated. This post explains why we're doing this and the dates you need to know.
Updating the GOV.UK Continuous Integration environment
Our team makes sure the GOV.UK infrastructure is up to date and maintained, while also providing infrastructure for new requirements. At the moment it’s our mission to “Upgrade the Things”, which involves a series of major updates to our …
Providing access to datasets through APIs
In this blog post I’ll discuss our thoughts on providing access to datasets through APIs. My thoughts are based on experiences with the Registers team, who have been conducting user research into how people use data, and agree with the …
Reporting back on cross-government StackTech2
In November 2016, roughly 2 years after the original StackTech unconference, we held StackTech2 in London, open to all cross-government technologists.
Cutting the maintenance strings on Puppet::Syntax
Today we’re handing over the maintenance of our Puppet::Syntax tool to an open source community group.
An allow list approach for cloud APIs
07 August 2020 update: We’ve updated this post to remove references to ‘whitelisting’ and ‘whitelists’. GDS has updated its style guide to ban references to the racist terms ‘whitelist’ and ‘blacklist’. We now use ‘allow list’ and ‘block list’ instead. …
Improving forms with new radios and checkboxes
Over the last year on GOV.UK, we’ve been looking for ways to make our forms easier to use by improving the checkboxes and radio buttons that people need to click on.
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