Uber president and chief operating officer Andrew Macdonald, quoted in The Verge: We’re going to have to start talkin...
I like the look of the Daylight DC–1 – it’s like a Remarkable e-ink tablet that also has a web browser on it. Using i...
Giles Turnbull – Working in the open ≠ comms: Comms seeks to bring about positive opinions of the work. Those opinion...
Am having some problems with the registration of my locali.se domain – which means the website isn’t working (no big ...
Weeknotes w/c 26 May 2026
Skills, work experience and graduates were a focus for our director this week, along with potential plans for a mayor...
AI = Ain’t Inclined
Originally I titled this post ‘AI = Not Interested’ but I realised that is not really my state of mind. I am somewhat...
MHCLG have launched a £6m fund to support councils with delivering improvements following a cyber assessment framewor...
Oh god, a new major version of WordPress is out.
Following my online identity crisis, I’ve given the Localise website a rethink, and now it’s a much simpler one page ...
May Days [03]
I’ve been back at work for 10 days and today should have been my 100th (working) day in this role. I actually think I...
What have drawings of peas got to do with prototyping digital services? www.platformland.xyz/ways-of-d…
Some terrifying numbers in Ed Zitron’s post AI Is Too Expensive: But LLMs are too expensive! They cost too much to ru...
I am LOVING Kev Rowe’s continued blogging about the low-code digital platform development at Luton, some of the think...
Building a platform that supports Luton 2040
Find out how our new digital platform supports our Luton 2040 vision - that Luton will be a healthy, fair and sustain...
On the New Stack blog: Who will maintain the web when PHP’s veterans retire? A new Perforce report finds PHP’s develo...
Weeknotes 18 May 2026
Another week of exciting updates for DDaT Luton, from a bid to be the UK's first Civica AI infrastructure site to mor...
100 novels (of limited literary value)
My inevitable response to The Guardian’s click-bait list is this list of a randomised 100 novels I have purchased onl...
Succession
With 25 emails left until I reach 500 the end is nigh for the Internet of Public Service Jobs newsletter. Even before...
May Days [02]
Second week back – first attempt at my new 22.5 hour ‘week’. Honestly it is going to take a bit of getting used to. T...
Answers in seconds, 24/7: GOV.UK Chat launches in the GOV.UK app
Find the information you need, quickly and easily, through the AI-powered chat system for GOV.UK.
Why it’s important to thinking of public sector super apps from the viewpoint of ‘the system’, not just ‘the citizen’...
Lobster pots, complexity and starting small in the right way Or the case against use-cases https://www.platformland.x...
I can’t tell isn’t was just a late 80s early 90s blip (or age induced nostalgia), but it seemed when I was younger qu...
[What is it you actually do?] 10 years later
A decade ago this month I started a series called ‘What is it you actually do?’ Blogpost ‘interviews’ that asked inte...
May days [01] – back in an office chair and Camp(Digital)ing
So after six weeks of ‘fit’ notes and various health shenanigans that came close to closing the book on your author I...
End of Sprint 1: bringing Liberty Create to life for Luton’s CRM and digital services
A month ago, we were laying the rails by agreeing patterns, shaping standards, and getting ready for delivery. Now th...
In 2018 (ish) at Harvard Kennedy School I saw a talk about cyber (my poor filing system means I can’t find the notes)...
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Weeknotes 5 May 2026
Awesome overall customer satisfaction score of 94.44% in April!! Plus weeknotes from our director and all DDaT projec...