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I'm not anti-NHS, I've no agenda to see it privatised, I just want it to be better. I tried many, many private routes first. I tried NHS England, NHS Digital, the Innovation Service, AHSNs (many sections having since been renamed/reorganised). About 20 different contact points over two or three years, most of which seemed inappropriate but I made sure if anyone told me it was someone else's responsibility I checked with them.

The problems had already been recognised through public inquiries and yet were still ongoing.

I even offered to build the software for free, which, hopefully, for an individual dealing with an organisation with a budget into the hundreds of billions, falls under supportive. But as far as I could see, offering support was getting me nowhere.

I just had people acknowledging the issue and then shrugging their shoulders, pointing fingers at everyone else. So I wrote a book on it, spoke about the issue publicly and within months it was decided to spend tens of millions on sorting it.

Selfish? I'll take that. I'm choosing to put the future of my children ahead of those who couldn't care less about them in any respect.

Many years ago now my sister turned down the chance to go to an international conference held in the Netherlands, when I asked why, she said it was because the NHS was the best in the world and had nothing to learn from other healthcare systems. I'm still stunned, and she still doesn't know anything about other healthcare systems.

This is exactly what I'm saying. The NHS are seen as perfect by some. All criticism is digs that are wrong.

I'm pro-NHS. But this perspective that it's infallible is beyond all reality.

On the NHS, I tried for years to push for improvements to switch to digital cancer screening invitations after they missed my mother (offering to build the software for free), which is now happening, but suggesting the NHS isn't perfect is against the religion here. My sister who works in NHS DEI hasn't spoken to me since publishing a book on it.

Every time someone with the finances, vision and ability leaves I think the situation gets a little bit worse, it increases the proportion of people remaining willing to put up with all of it. Anecdotally, many of my friends have already left, some of the older generation want to leave but feel tied in. My flight out is in 6 weeks. Good riddance, no doubt.

There are people offering their services to find kidnapped children, I struggle to see that as a bad thing. Private investigatory work has a long history in the country of Sherlock Holmes (or at least Dr Joseph Bell). You have figures as far back as Harry Philby flirting with foreign governments after their time within the UK government.

They're not offering government services, they're offering their own capabilities.

Intelligence agency staff leave their roles, just like anyone else does. Unregulated? They're as regulated as the rest of us. Then you have the article casting aspersions on them for doing so, it must be about money and malign foreign influences. Of course foreign states use proxies; so does the UK. Why's that even mentioned as if it's implying ex-intel staff are the proxies - which as far as I'm aware, they're not?

Should we ban these people from working again, or ensure they only flip burgers for the rest of their lives for daring to leave the public sector?

Sometimes I want to hunt it down and erase the lazy, lying, gas-lighting **** from existence.

The gist of it is, it's a simple piece of JS that can be included to harvest feedback from users, categorise it and then based on those categories send it on. So, dev requests to Jira/Github, sales requests to a Trello list say, cyber security to Asana, support requests to Slack, whatever the breakdown is.

So I'm really targeting organisations that are small enough that they still use an email address for contact but are large enough to have multiple job roles.

If anyone would be kind enough to try it (and even dog-food it by clicking the lightbulb at the top of the landing page to send any feedback), you can get 30 days free with the code LB30.

Thanks all.

That the percentage of people who can read (and do read one book per year) is higher, clearly isn't translating to more book sales, so people are reading, or at least buying, fewer print books.

I remember listening to that as a kid and thinking it must be wrong because we still had radio, we even had books everywhere as far as I could see. Of course we still do, but it's not just literary fiction suffering; book sales tend to go down (pandemics excepted) while the numbers being published goes up.

Anecdotally, I followed an interesting ex-MI6 bod on Tiktok (@theenglishspy) who had ~50k followers and admitted, maybe a few months after publishing a book he'd been pushing, that he had sold less than 100 copies. I had my own go [1] at narrative non-fiction for a cause and also didn't manage to break 100 copies.

Perhaps it's a good thing; the market's saturated, while overall demand for books is falling it's because there are more instant, engaging formats that people are seeking to invest in finding stories. If the internet ever goes down, those books will still be there, we'll just have to find a way to order them.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DVC8XG1X/

I feel I have to reply, but I have no idea what to say.

I'm back to 10 videos on the homepage from 2.

I'd imagine these days typescript or node might be taking over some of what would have hit on javascript.

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/wasabi/jobs/4615087008

I wonder how many potential answers to such problems are out there, known to a few but not acted on by the masses.

Probably didn't help that I'm not American so the cultural references aren't there.

It used to be annoying enough just having to clean the trackball, but at least you knew when it wasn't working.

In a word, yes.

I'd be fascinated to know who in the hive mind decided to do it though; I can't see someone too senior coming up with an http redirect as the answer. I guess the scrub order came down the chain and an automaton jumped into action.

The north star, was written as Al Jedi... the Jedi. It goes a step further, in that it's arabic which translates as the kid (as in a goat, but the same way Hans refers to Luke).

I'm not sure how much is coincidence, but reading about Thomas preparing to travel by starlight, it struck me as being remarkably reminiscent. I guess there are no original stories.

Then Spring boot came along where they defaulted to the much fatter Tomcat, apparently just to be different, and then went down the list of libraries and instead of picking the best one, they picked the Spring one.

I never understood that philosophy, but it won out. It looked at lot to me like no one ever got fired for choosing IBM/Microsoft. But it was so much worse. Other frameworks have improved on what Dropwizard offered for startup times, etc. but still don't seem to have gained the traction to unsettle Spring.