This is the the unabridged version of the script for my Camp Digital talk in Manchester on 03/07/2025 – including all the stuff I had to cut to keep to time! The slides are here. The Power, P…| Digital by Default
Mr Briggs shared his new Macbook Air setup – with his gazillion apps(!) – so I thought I’d so a quick update on my setup (mainly as my desk is reasonably tidy since I had to move …| Digital by Default
Turns out I didn’t get everything off my chest with the post yesterday about the challenges with recruiting and retaining public service technologists! Again I am avoiding the whole improve the sal…| Digital by Default
The Centre for British Progress* published this report recommending ways to improve Recruiting and Retaining Civil Service Technologists which I generally like and agree with. It focuses almost exc…| Digital by Default
So I find myself somewhat unexpectedly about to be on the job market. Well probably not THAT unexpected if you’ve been following closely but I really hadn’t decided to resign until minutes before I…| Digital by Default
Hello from my very nice hotel room in very rainy Manchester. I’m up here for Open Data Camp ~ where I made a cameo today just to check in but attended a few sessions yesterday, caught up with some …| Digital by Default
I grew up loving the library. I think Horfield library was the first place I ever visited by myself that wasn’t the home of a relative. I haunted the shelves there (and Filton, Gloucester Rd [RIP] …| Digital by Default
Tom recently wrote a great post about the need for product people to do a better job of communicating the ‘negative space’ – the trade offs that were made in ideas on the path to the ones you…| Digital by Default
Yesterday Debbie, Steve and I hosted our second Product for the People unconference in Cardiff. The aim of these events is to bring product people (and people interested in product) from across the…| Digital by Default