Using authenticators to protect an online service Good Practice Guide (GPG) 44 helps you choose the authenticator that will give you the right level of protection for your service.

excellent summary / analogy of GPG44 vs GPG45 in plain language there Rachel! (link for ref)

my dad negotiated with the headteacher at my primary school for me to be allowed to wear trousers, which had previously been against the uniform policy - that was London in 1992

Everything I've seen over the last ~20 agrees - the most high performing teams broadly following XP practices (if not in name, at least in practice)

straight in the portfolio

"We appointed FF Studio as our partners...This can’t-be-topped team wore their expertise lightly. They operated thoroughly inside the tent as we’d hoped...They delivered at pace, with high standards and most importantly, any problems were shared problems that we figured out together."

How to create an intranet Or ‘How to help staff get stuff done’

Lizzie wrote a very pleasing account of my favourite project of last year with the V&A

bike brand bingo

you've stated your opinion strongly enough to make me want to buy one and test it and prove you wrong

a Nitto front rack on a light green Brompton with a Kryptonite lock attached to it with a cream coloured voile strap

saw this image from Blue Lug in Tokyo and it just made my heart sing, aren't bikes and all the beautiful things people make for them such a thing of beauty

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I had the same issue a few years ago and landed on www.richersounds.com/dali-spektor... but obviously depends on whether you're looking at active/passive, smart or not, etc (these are passive and very much not smart)

another great piece from @amymcnichol.bsky.social's annual series. the cognitive load involved in becoming a queer parent is immense. www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/2025/becomin...

Yeah, it's rough. Happy to share what we learned, if useful - though I imagine you know most of it already Ann.

really tiny amount of quite outdated insider knowledge, I should say

‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay - Research Professional News Two-week walkout planned on second anniversary of major cyberattack

I hope they get great people too but as someone with a really tiny amount of insider knowledge, paying below market rates has hindered them bringing in experienced computer-types in the past (and seems like a pattern for non-computer-types too www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...)

And also utterly infuriating to see a £60k salary against head of cyber security there given the past few years.

I don't miss Sharepoint but I do miss being able to say "We're working with the V&A at the moment", thanks @soniaturcotte.bsky.social for writing up the work soniaturcotte.com/digital-gard...

That speakers list is 🔥 you know

Oh Huw this is music to my ears ❤️

accidentally bounced civilservicepensions.co.uk offline the other week. back now. haven't updated it since 2018 but hopefully someone somewhere still finds it useful. (not financial advice etc etc)

Nice one for getting through your first year and writing it up. Here’s to year 2!

I've almost done this a few times and then get sucked back into the land of GDocs. And as for how Google Calendar invitations (from others) don't seem to play nicely with others...proper monopoly stuff. What's your new stack?

best bit of the new Lily Allen record is her dropped Ts, 100% London energy

Not sure what Martin Keown has to do with all this

wrote down some stuff about closing FF Studio, what I was proud of and what I'd do differently if I did it again notes.annagoss.co/closing-ff/

Thanks Liz! Hope you and the fam are well, catch up soon

Thank you, that's very kind of you

wrote down some stuff about closing FF Studio, what I was proud of and what I'd do differently if I did it again notes.annagoss.co/closing-ff/

Oh I didn’t read it as pile on, just interpreted your read as genuinely considering it an ethical prioritisation process! soz if caused consternation

I reckon you're reading way too far into it. Small-ish cohort and departments who want to co-operate = decision made (I don't know for sure, but that's my rough guess). Anything ethical is posthoc rationalisation.

Roger. Yeah, I meant what’s your general review. I too have recently entered the Exchange universe and am trying to work out how to maintain soooome elements of my usual workflow.