Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • 52: Week Two

    So to coin a phrase ‘that was the week that was’. Week two had the distinct benefit of being a little shorter due to a much needed and unusually lovely Bank Holiday. Tuesday I was back to sunny Titchfield. It is a train journey that takes you (slowly) through some truly stunning bits of the…

  • Mozilla MOOC

    I have been studiously avoiding MOOCs since the hype kicked in but am going to give the Mozilla #teachtheweb course a go and see if I can carve out a bit of time to get my practical web skills up to something less humiliating! You can learn about the course on the HiveNYC site or…

  • 52: Week One

    I’m giving week notes another go as a way of trying to kickstart  my blogging mojo and thought this time I’d go with a bit of a comic book theme to brighten things up (learn about DC 52 here..) This week I started my new job at the ONS. At the moment there is some…

  • Hawaii stynamic

    The new Hawaii.gov website looks amazing but it is under the hood where it is really impressive – not a dissimilar approach to GDS.  It is becoming clear that this kind of in-house development based on a suite of standardised open source tools rather than a big CMS is growing in popularity and certainly seems…

  • Hello Goodbye

    On Thursday I said farewell to my friends and colleagues at the Research Council and Monday I start my new role in Newport with the ONS. I was sad to leave Swindon in the end – an element of this is probably ‘graduation goggles‘ but a bigger part is I was lucky enough to work…