Which reminds me of a weekend I took a few years ago where we drove to Edinburgh from Manchester on day 1 then up to Arisaig on day 2 to camp on the beach - then back to Edinburgh for a wedding on day 3 and then back to Arisaig the next day to continue the long weekend. Then full day drive back to Manchester.
The uk government development service as you call it is not a service. It’s more of a declaration of process that is adhered to across diverse departments and organisations that make up the government. It’s usually small teams that are responsible for exploring what a service is or needs and then implementing it. They are able to deliver decent services because they start small, design and user test iteratively and only when there is a really good understanding of what’s being delivered do they scale out.
The technology is the easy bit.
The UK Gov has many service and process docs [1]. It started out that way but has grown rapidly and changed. Including a library for authentication, frontend templates and libraries, custom docker images.
And now imagine the future where code is embedded in the world all around. No one knows it’s there, except… the magicians! They’re the only ones who managed to RTFM before it was lost in the mists of time…
I have visited 2x -
Once recently and it was very impressive.
But I also climbed the towers in a thunder storm in 1990. Which was a terrifying experience.
The stairs had about 50cm of stone balustrade on the inside which was not enough to feel safe. I was on my hands and knees by the very top.
It was either real or vertigo but I swear I could feel the tower sway as the lightening and thunder crashed all around. A most treasured experience
That is why this is so diabolically effective. To book the ticket they need your real id, quickly correlated across the hundreds of brokers willing to sell your data. I bet they have a partnership with Visa and Amex.
Currently that data is entered long after they display price information.
The article notes that they might require you to be logged in to your DeltaAir account to see the (good?) prices for routes.
I’m curious what this will do to route planning tools, resellers and travel agents. Ones I can think of would be Booking.com or Kayak — you couldn’t even see price info? That would be a radical change.
I agree it sounds odd. It's a phrase I've moved to using after fifteen years of being shouted at for using other phrases. North England, while sounding a bit odd, generates much fewer rage replies than other formulations. There's also a slight preference on my part for shorter phrases because of social media.
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