Shout out to all ID-KAARTS worldwide! Dutch identity card, Belgian identity card, and Estonian identity card.

Maisie and I blogged about opening up the Verify source code - gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk/2019/02/18/ope…

No Deal equals no EU orphan works directive equals withdrawal of Spare Rib digital archive. Thanks to Polly Russell for teasing this out. So many of our rules/processes around data rely on EU legislation. I expect to see more of these stories as the precipice nears.

This is how to respond to such an unspeakable act. Reaffirm the values that the terrorists hate. Tell them their victims are the heart of what is best in your country & communities, & the haters will never be. #TheyAreUs

Where's a good place to register a domain (and only a domain). Also might change registrar soon after

Hope the e-petitions folk are alright. Site is overloaded. 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺

For those who might, for a moment, think to complain about the Petitions site having a moment, consider this, the two next most popular petitions have 784 and 583 signatures per hour (normal load). The Article 50 revocation one had 92,688 in the last hour (abnormal load).

PSA: don't keep refreshing the petitions website just to see the numbers go up, it will add additional load

Now that I've left GDS it seems the traditional thing to do is declare myself a founder of GDS* *this is not true (the having left bit is) and is also a joke

A massive problem for the government appears to be that there has been a shit in opinion since 2016.

BoringTun, a userspace WireGuard implementation in #Rust - cfl.re/2Yu91F5

This is essential reading for people who care about diversity and inclusion in the civil service, from my brilliant Department for Education colleage Emran Mian

Would like to hear the background technical story behind why it's only just possible to change PSN handles. Guess: it's the primary key. Impact Level (PS)3

openjdk11 not working on Travis CI, apparently because of a TLS cert issue. stackoverflow.com/questions/5587… OpenJDK

#OnThisDay in 1215 #MagnaCarta was agreed to by King John. As part of our 800th anniversary work in 2015 we used #microscopy to assess the ink's condition britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/collectioncare…

Welsh Affairs Select Committee en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Aff…

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