I Built a Modern UK Government Service Using COBOL
Can COBOL build a modern UK government service? I tested GOV.UK Frontend with a 67-year-old language. Read on to find out.
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Building Services to GDS Standards Without a Frontend Framework
Can you build UK government services without a frontend framework? Read on to find out what happened when I tested GOV.UK Frontend across eight backends.
Progressively Enhancing Maps for UK Government Services
In this post, I explore how to progressively enhance interactive maps for UK government services, with accessible, resilient fallbacks when JavaScript fails.
GOV.UK Cookie banner and why it won't go away
This is a blog post about the GOV.UK cookie banner and the reason it won't go away when navigating across UK government services. I also touch on security and privacy features available in modern browsers.
Remove Subresource Integrity (SRI) from the GOV.UK assets domain
This is an RFC I wrote to persuade the GOV.UK Senior Technology team to remove Subresource Integrity (SRI) from GOV.UK's assets being served from the assets domain and allow for greater HTTP/2 performance.
Enabling HTTP/2 on GOV.UK
This is an RFC I wrote to persuade the GOV.UK Senior Technology team to enable HTTP/2 on GOV.UK. It was accepted and merged into the repository, and enabled in June 2020.
Enabling Brotli compression on GOV.UK
This is an RFC I wrote to persuade the GOV.UK Senior Technology team to enable Brotli compression on GOV.UK. It was accepted and merged into the repo, and enabled in March 2021.
Enabling HTTP/3 on GOV.UK
This is an RFC I wrote to persuade the GOV.UK Senior Technology team to enable HTTP/3 on GOV.UK. It was accepted and merged into the repo, and as of 11th Jan 2024 it has now been enabled!
A 'Vary' unusual waterfall
Weird things can happen to waterfalls when you don't set the correct response headers.
Bringing HTTP/2 to GOV.UK - Resources
A simple blog post bringing all the resources I used and created in the GOV.UK HTTP/2 work.
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