ah, good point. I must have very few USB C peripherals!

When I am at my desk - which is when I have the external screen, webcam, general peripheral overload - I use one of these, and it's great: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D9XK4WG...

Guidance from the ICO on AI and freedom of information requests:

Information requests often involve secondary correspondence, such as clarification or internal reviews. If requesters use AI to rea...

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A fun long-ish read from the makers of the iA writer app on Europe’s desire to move away from Microsoft Office and what it might take:

Severance illustrates something so familiar that it’s h...

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Jens Gemmel shares a substantial post with some really good, interesting in depth thinking around the potential for LGR to be used as a level for wider, system level change (LinkedIn warning):

Wh...

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The latest resource in the Local Government Reorganisation Digital and Cyber Playbook has been published – Digital and cyber leadership during transition:

Research by the Local Government As...

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I’ve been playing around a bit with Gitbook to see if it would be a good fit for a publishing itch I need to scratch. I ended up tearing my (somewhat limited) hair out over it – I don...

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Lovely story in the Guardian about the making of the 8-bit classic game Chukie Egg:

The iconic game that came to define 8-bit programming still conjures flutters of nostalgia 40 years on – all tha...

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Premier League clubs unhappy at rising costs of Independent Football Regulator Premier League clubs are increasingly unhappy at the Independent Football Regulator’s (IFR’s) rising costs and uncertainty about how much each club will be made to pay

My heart bleeds.

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Useful reminder from dxw about the potential for things to go wrong on WordPress sites – in this case, a change of ownership for a suite of plugins.

In August 2025 the new owner planted a b...

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Like most people, I don’t often need to interact with my local council, and so – given the way I make a living – I tend to take notice when I do.
Recently we got an email with an ...

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The National Digital Exchange is a really neat idea that is looking more and more impressive.
Basically, it’s a way to try out local government software – often open source – with...

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Will Callaghan is on a bit of a blogging roll at the moment. Here he is on Kickstarting collaboration during LGR:

Of the speakers, the stand out two for me were Kate Hurr and Madeline Hoskin, of C...

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I had the thought the other day that an awful lot of time gets wasted in local government digital because of the constant cycle of probably unnecessary change.
Here’s an example: new chief d...

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I can definitely tell the difference.

Really good post from Kev Rowe on the Luton blog about how the team are preparing for the rollout of the new Netcall low code platform. Lots of learning of lessons from previous experience as well ...

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GDS Local have published the first iteration of their architecture for (digital) local government.
It looks at this stage like very high level, simplified enterprise architecture.
It will be intere...

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yes, perfect for those time (I seem to have about 12 of them a day) when you just need to dump a bit of text somewhere for 5 minutes!

Am super impressed with the way Doug is using AI tools to help him build useful software. Commonplace is a way of saving online stuff into collections. It’s a bit like Delicious of old.
What&...

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I'll give you a pass on that errant nonsense because you are poorly.

I actually take that as a compliment which may well be indicative of a greater malaise.

I think for a long time titles just created anxiety - made me feel that a post needed a certain amount of words to justify the title, or something. Largely ditching them has resulted in my blogging far more regularly!

Me, in a text to @lesteph.com, earlier today:

"Blogging without titles is genuinely liberating."

What is wrong with me.

I sent out a newsletter for the first time in ages today. It’s a simple dump of the last week’s blog posts from here.
Since I put in place the Jetopack-driven email subscription feature...

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Richard Pope: Stop searching for AI ‘use-cases’. Design AI into services:

The principles of what makes a well-designed service remain the same as in the pre-AI digital era. AI should b...

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Not come across LOTI’s service innovation cards before, but they are lovely and would be really interested to learn about how it plays out in a workshop setting.
It reminds me somewhat of the good ...

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The Local Digital team at MHCLG is running a webinar to talk about the playbook we have been developing which guides digital teams through what they need to do during the creation of the new unitar...

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Interesting perspective on Ai generated software from Quentin Stafford-Fraser:

As we enter an era where software development is much cheaper and easier, the number of people able to create their o...

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Cloudflare have released a new open source CMS, that they are billing as the “spiritual successor” to WordPress.
Unsurprisingly, Matt Mullenweg has views:

The UI is in the uncanny vall...

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