Mat Moore - Things I've created

Here are some things I've done that are on the internet.

Blog posts

I occasionally blog about things I've learned or made. Here are some of them:

• Tips to make code reviews less painful
• How to break up a rails monolith
• Turn Windows into a usable development environment with WSL
• How to make a comfortable face mask
• Using trello to prioritise my time
• How to manage a huge database schema in liquibase
• How to review website accessibility without comprehensive testing
• Making sense of python's development tools in 2019
• It's ok for things to go wrong
• Watching conference talks as a group
• 3 lessons for building better AI from the 2019 Turing Talk
• When making a private GitHub repository public, audit the pull requests
• Upgrading our GOV.UK search engine: a postmortem and lessons learnt (cowritten with Suzanne Hamilton)

Experiments

• Using data science to build a taxonomy for GOV.UK - a series of experiments to see if we could speed up development of the GOV.UK subject taxonomy
• Modelling user behaviour to benchmark GOV.UK's search engine - a project I completed for the Government Data Science Accelerator Programme
• Deployment pipeline hello world - a prototype deployment pipeline I worked on while at the Ministry of Justice, as a basis for migrating legacy applications to AWS

Things I worked on at the Government Digital Service

GDS work in the open, so you can see everything I did there on GitHub. The main projects I contributed to are:

• GOV.UK Search API
• GOV.UK Content Data API
• The Registers Specification - the open specification behind GOV.UK Registers
• The Reference Implementation of the Registers Specification
• ObjectHash Java - a way of hashing structured objects with redactable fields
• The GDS Tech Learning Pathway - a knowledge base and career path for technologists at GDS

Side projects

Some of the things I've created in my spare time:

• Online board games and party games - resources for playing tabletop games online
• Learn Go - an interactive explainer for the board game Go
• @PR_birthday_bot - a twitter bot to celebrate forever unmerged code
• ETL - a project I made to learn Airflow
• String inspector - a tool for debugging unicode strings
• Speech splitter - a tool I'm using to make flashcards from language learning MP3s
• Markdown external link finder - extract links from markdown files
• An unofficial repository of Civil Service jargon
• Standard Ebooks - Commentaries on the Gallic War - Julius Caesar

Notes

Some resources I've found useful:

• Inspiration - a list of people, books, blogs, videos, podcasts etc that have influenced how I think about things
• Digital Service Resources - a big list of resources to help digital teams working in the public sector build better services