<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>hmpo on Professional Blog</title><link>https://alister.github.io/tags/hmpo/</link><description>Recent content in hmpo on Professional Blog</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en-gb</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 19:17:49 +0100</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://alister.github.io/tags/hmpo/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>A year at the Passport Office</title><link>https://alister.github.io/blog/2026/a-year-at-the-passport-office/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 19:17:49 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://alister.github.io/blog/2026/a-year-at-the-passport-office/</guid><description>With the recent news that the NHS wants to close all its Github repos (see NHS Goes To War Against Open Source and An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open as well as a couple of other &amp;lsquo;war stories&amp;rsquo; of what people had seen while working on websites in for the UK Government, someone suggested writing up and sharing my own story of my ups and downs of helping to create a government website.</description></item></channel></rss>