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If there was any remaining doubt about the UK Gov's design chops, check out their Github projects. Just to highlight one... they've published one of the most accessible and intuitive reverse-engineering tools I've ever used: https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef

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There's also huge amounts of UK Govt infrastructure code available online and open source. For all kinds of things, from all departments.

You could pretty much spin up the code needed to run the boring bits of a country out of open-source code. How about the application for booking secure prisoner moves? [0] Or some nice open source security guidance? [1]

And that's just one department, most others are similar!

[0] https://github.com/ministryofjustice [1] https://github.com/ministryofjustice/security-guidance

Or run your own version of government tax system https://github.com/hmrc

https://www.notifications.service.gov.uk/

and

https://www.payments.service.gov.uk/

are both open source:

https://github.com/alphagov?q=pay&type=&language=

https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-api

Slightly different group of people working on GCHqQ's recruiting tools and gov.uk, I would imagine.

It's worth noting that GCHQ and GDS (Government digital Service, responsible for gov.uk sites) are different.

How have I never seen this before? This is amazing! I've been looking for something like this for ages.

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