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Liked Today marks one year since I joined the Civil Service—what a year it’s been, with department changes and a new government along the way. Navigating digital accessibility challenges in such a large and evolving organisation hasn’t been easy, but I’m learning to value the small wins. https://calumryan.com/notes/3716 by https://calumryan.com/and Calum Ryan 
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Today marks one year since I joined the Civil Service—what a year it’s been, with department changes and a new government along the way. Navigating digital accessibility challenges in such a large and …

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Liked Brandur (@brandur.org)
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Today, came across a Go package literally named "event". Such bland naming doesn't just hurt users, it hurts the package because being hard to google makes it less likely to be adopted. Ultra-generic naming isn't cool. It's just bad. For the love of god: https://brandur.org/fragments/go-no-common-nouns

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Listened to Still Panicking: How to Pass your Theory Test | Nobody Panic
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Listen to Still Panicking: How to Pass your Theory Test from Nobody Panic. Still Panicking: Stevie has been smashing it in the latest series of Taskmaster. To celebrate, this week we look back at some practical How-Tos to help guide you through tasks of your own.Stevie recently passed and has many thoughts. Tessa passed a couple of decades ago before there was an app. If you’ve been putting off booking your theory test because you’re worried about failing, or have it looming in a few weeks, this is the episode for you.Recorded and edited by Aniya Das for Plosive.Photos by Marco Vittur, jingle by David Dobson.

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Listened to Open Source Security: Package URLs with Philippe Ombredanne
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I'm joined by Philippe Ombredanne, creator of the Package URL (PURL), to discuss the surprisingly complex and messy problem of simply identifying open source software packages. We dive into how PURLs provide a universal, common-sense standard that is becoming essential for the future of SBOMs and securing the software supply chain. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at

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If you, a business, are reliant on an open source project to function it is YOUR responsibility to assess and ensure the health of that project by either contributing to it yourself or by using an alternative if project health cannot be guaranteed.