Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Commuting kit

    Because nobody demanded it here is a pic of my current day to day commuting kit. Its no wonder I have neck and shoulder pain! Not shown is the 6lb, 5 year old Dell laptop I tote around on a not quite daily basis (it requires me to be psyched up – for non work…

  • Happy 10th Birthday WordPress

    Apparently 10 years ago today the first release of WordPress was let loose on the world. It is now the most popular web publishing tool in the world by a looooonnnnggg way – not bad for a small, trans-Atlantic open source project. My career has been pretty entangled with WordPress during that decade – I…

  • Ghost writing

    I’ve been ‘umming and ahhing’ about it for a while but yesterday I finally got around to backing Ghost on Kickstarter. For those of you that aren’t aware of it Ghost is aiming to be; An open source blogging platform which makes writing pleasurable and publishing simple. The basic premise is that WordPress has become…

  • Code for America: Fixing Procurement

    Interesting series of posts over on the Code for America blog about ‘fixing procurement‘. Some of the terminology might be different but I think anyone working in the UK public sector will recognise  the issues discussed. Related just this week the G-Cloud, the UKs own attempt to solve some of the procurement problems, won an award…

  • 52: Week Four

    A very civilised four day week this week so this is going to be a short update for a short week. This week was very meeting heavy – even compared to previous weeks. Time spent at my desk was a rare and wonderful treat but for the most part the meetings continue to add useful…