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Today is the start of Design System Day ‘23! For the next 2 days we’re gathering as a community to learn and share information about design systems that make the best public services.
🧵 Stay tuned as we'll be posting updates on this thread! If you’re attending, use #DSDay23
ALT 'Welcome to Design System Day 2023' stand up banner at the venue.
ALT 'Design System Day 2023' branded paper
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Oliver Byford retweeted
5 Jan 2023
In the meantime, I am looking for a new role. I'm an engineer with >10 years experience, with particular strengths in infrastructure and security engineering. I'm available from March onwards. Let me know what you have!
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Oliver Byford retweeted
5 Jan 2023
Personal news: after 10 years, I'm leaving GDS. I've had a brilliant time here and am proud of what I and we have achieved. I'm planning to write a personal retrospective on my time here.
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23 Dec 2022
Wrote a blog post about an interesting Safari bug that we looked into… (*checks watch*) a little over a year ago.
obyford.com/posts/the-safari…
Better late than never, I guess?
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8 Nov 2022
Slow clap for @DandG_Support who have managed to send us 6 almost identical letters - one for each of the appliances that came with our house.
18 sheets of A4, 6 envelopes and 6 return envelopes.
Could have been an email.
#wasteofpaper
ALT 6 identical AEG branded envelopes which arrived in the post today.
ALT 6 almost identical letters, each made up of 3 sheets of A4. Only the product names and prices differ.
Oliver Byford retweeted
20 Oct 2022
so here's a story
I volunteer helping seniors with their technology issues. One of my regulars came in with a Lenovo laptop. It still had a retail sticker; I imagine she bought it used, for over $500
"I bought this so recently, how is it already so slow," she asked me
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Now in private beta, @GOVUK Forms will enable any government team to create simple, accessible digital forms in a few minutes.
For insight, read more on how we've worked with @involvencygovuk on the new forms platform: gds.blog.gov.uk/2022/10/06/m…
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Oliver Byford retweeted
8 Sep 2022
Many TV guides / EPGs say that Channel 4 will be airing an episode of Naked Attraction at 10pm this evening.
However, this is not the case. Channel 4 will show a documentary called "The Queen: Mother and Monarch."
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8 Sep 2022
Some interesting programming choices from Channel 4 this evening…
ALT Screenshot from the Freeview app. BBC One, BBC Two and ITV are all showing news specials for the entire evening. Channel 4 has ‘The Queen: Mother and Monarch’ from 10:00 until 11:05, followed by ‘Naked Attraction’!
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8 Sep 2022
(Now that I’ve actually turned the telly on, it looks like they have in fact decided to show something else.)
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The last 2 years have been tough for us all. During this period, the GDS coronavirus team responded to changing circumstances, policies, and user needs.
Learn about the challenges we faced and the successes the team achieved: gds.blog.gov.uk/2022/07/25/2…
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Oliver Byford retweeted
4 Jul 2022
We wrote down how we test for #WCAG (and #accessibility in general). We've shared it as #OpenSource at github.com/alphagov/wcag-pri…
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Oliver Byford retweeted
29 Jun 2022
This article is very good; from someone who was originally strongly anti-abortion and some things she learned patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfem…
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Oliver Byford retweeted
29 Jun 2022
Just noting with astonishment the amount of men who, faced with this little thought-experiment, have replied with "This is brutal!" or "This is unfair!" or "You sound abusive!" I KNOW, RIGHT? IT SOUNDS REALLY FUCKING WEIRD AND CREEPY TO FUCK WITH MENS' BODIES AND CHOICES.
28 Jun 2022
I'll say this once again - it would be far more logical & effective to give all teenage boys a vasectomy, only reversed when they decide to have kids, than to curtail the right of women & girls - particularly those who have been raped - to decide whether or not to become mothers.
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