rjtrickett

Agreed, GOV.UK is so underrated. Their service review teams (who give approval) are relentless about user research, accessibility and ultimate effectiveness of the service. They won't allow a service to pass an assessment until it meets these on a very high standard, no matter how 'urgent' or important the project is.

Their commitment to accessibility is also laudable, unlike other commercial organisations who aren't incentivised to service that minority.

Many people complain that GOV.UK "looks boring" but it's brilliantly effective.

I dislike LinkedIn so much I started building a professional social platform that I would like to have, based on skills.

It’s early days but if you want to check it out, you can here: https://able.bio

Has the idea of a patent tax ever been explored?

Basically, increasing the cost of filing patents incrementally to regulate excessive patenting and encourage companies to be more selective.

Shameless plug here but I'm also so sick of LinkedIn that I've started building an alternative for developers by myself - https://able.bio/

Still very much alpha but the idea is to have a clean UI and allow developers to write their own insightful articles for the community to read and reward the author with reputation. Like Medium but with more specific language, library, framework topics etc. Then use that to help recruiters who can't code advertise and source candidates for technical interviews. No inbox spamming free for all, they can only contact you when you've applied for a position.

I'd be interested to know what people think of this and if they have any feedback.

Codecademy has a nice set of interactive tutorials - https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-python