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I've written my ninth (?) blog post for GDS, titled How we retired a web application to make GOV.UK simpler to run.

It's a technical subject written for a non-technical audience, so hopefully it should make sense whatever your background.

I've co-authored a new blog post for GDS, titled How GOV.UK is upgrading to Google Analytics 4. Read on for a bit of background.

I've recently had another blog post published for GOV.UK, titled How and why we removed jQuery from GOV.UK. It was followed shortly by The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance, which relates to the same thing but written by Matt Hobbs (I was given co-author credit but all I did was review it).

I've had another article published on the GDS blog - Rebuilding the scroll tracker on GOV.UK. This one's been a while in the making.

I've written another article for the GDS blog, called Simple things are complicated: making a show password option. It's about what I learned while making a show password component for GOV.UK accounts.

This is an article I wrote for Rock Paper Shotgun in February 2018, which I reproduce now for posterity. Enjoy.

Spintires: MudRunner is a game about driving slowly through mud. It's beautiful and detailed but also gruelling and unforgiving. The first level took me 3 hours and 21 minutes to complete, during which I drove 18.64 km. That means I averaged slightly less than 6 km per hour. It's less Fast and Furious and more Grimy and Gradual.