
I Built a Fake UK Government Blink Regulation Agency and It Got Out of Hand
This is a submission for the DEV April Fools Challenge Category: [Literally any] I Built a Fake UK Government Agency That Regulates Blinking and I'm not sorry It's 2:14am. I have consumed four coffees, one energy drink I found in the back of the fridge that expired in October, and approximately half a packet of digestives. The cat is judging me. And I am, for reasons that made complete sense four hours ago, writing CSS to make a rubber stamp that says "APPEAL DENIED" at a seven-degree angle. This is my life now. I have accepted it. Let me tell you about HOOCER. The Origin Story (Or: How I Got Here) It started, as most things do, with a shower thought. I was lying in bed at some ungodly hour — I think it was a Tuesday, though by this point in the project all the days have blurred together into one long beige administrative corridor — and I was thinking about government regulation. Specifically, about how the UK government regulates things that absolutely should not need regulating. The
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