What I learned when I moved from content design to technical writing
Mark Green, a lead technical writer at the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO), discusses the similarities and differences between technical writing and content design.
Automatically creating and rotating GOV.UK application secrets
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Bill Franklin - Senior Developer, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Security, Tools
How we reduced toil when managing infrastructure for 50 applications.
How we reduced errors on GOV.UK
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Chris Ashton, senior developer, GDS and Tim Motz, product manager, GDS, Posted on:
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GOV.UK, Jobs, Tools
All websites run into errors. We’ve reduced our errors by over 90% and changed our culture around errors so they are identified, owned and resolved quickly.
Help us make government more sustainable
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Letizia Lodi, Senior User Researcher, CDDO and Lewis Dunne, Senior Policy Advisor, CDDO, Posted on:
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Open Source, Open Standards, Transformation
We’re currently working to add a new point on sustainability to the Technology Code of Practice. We’re adopting a user-led and iterative approach to policy to ensure the new point is as useful and effective as possible.
Simple things are complicated: making a show password option
Adding a ‘show password’ option to GOV.UK accounts looked like a straightforward task, but it was more interesting and complicated than we expected.
How we fixed a strange ‘week year’ bug
When a pull request failed because of an incorrect creation date, the GOV.UK Pay team investigated the cause. Here’s how they found and fixed the bug.
Join the next cross-government API Community of Practice meetup
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Sarah Johns, Data Standards Authority Community Manager, GDS, Posted on:
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Event
If you’re in the public sector and are working on APIs, find out more about our API Community of Practice and attend our upcoming event.
Wheel of Misfortune: Incident rehearsal for GOV.UK PaaS
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Jenny Sleeman, GOV.UK PaaS delivery manager, GDS and Lee Porte, GOV.UK PaaS tech lead, GDS, Posted on:
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GOV.UK PaaS, Security, Tools
Rehearsing for incidents with replica environments to perform hands on investigations takes a lot of setting up. The GOV.UK Platform as a Service team wanted to see if they could get a lot of the value with a reduced amount of setup time and cost.
To build or to buy - that's the technology question
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Amina Omar, GDS Technology Policy Advisor, Posted on:
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Tools, Transformation
We’ve updated the purchasing strategy guidance in the Technology Code of Practice, to offer more advice of when to buy and when to build.
Getting the Document Checking Service ready for take-off
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Alex Wilson, tech lead, DCS and Pippa Clark, technical writer, GDS, Posted on:
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GOV.UK Verify, Tools, Transformation
To prepare for the Document Checking Service (DCS) pilot we built out several new capabilities in the service and published our first API documentation powered by user testing.
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