Year: 2024

  • What a waste

    What a waste

    Yesterday I saw Gavin Freeguard post/skeet on Bluesky about Ishmael Burdeau comparing data to plastic: “Too often, our data collection is single-use and disposable, with no regard to the environmental consequences” There is too much plastic around, so we try and recycle it, so it’s not a waste. This is a good idea But it…

  • Roadmap what you’ll do, and sometimes what you won’t.

    Roadmap what you’ll do, and sometimes what you won’t.

    I’ve read two (unrelated) things about roadmaps in the last 24 hours, and they’re both great in different ways. Firstly, James Higgot posted some gratitude about a reference to the NHS app roadmap he is rightly proud of: And secondly, Dave Briggs shared a post linking to the Local Stuff for Local Gov People blog,…

  • Saving webpages to notion.so on an iPhone

    Saving webpages to notion.so on an iPhone

    I use notion.so for a lot of things. It’s a great dumping ground for notes, links, lists and all sorts. There is an excellent webclipper for your browser of choice, which can save the contents of a web page into notion as a note/page to read and refer to later. But on a phone (or…

  • If I blogged, it might look like this.

    If I blogged, it might look like this.

    The demise of Twitter for digital people in the sector I work in has led to a mini resurgence of blogging (or publishing weeknotes if that structure works better for you), and using RSS feeds as method of collating and consuming content (Steve Messer offers a great pace to start). I’m currently trying out the…