Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • 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…

  • He who is contented is rich – Laozi

    Sorry about the quote its a bit of a red herring as this isn’t going to be a treatise on Taoism 🙂 After a little more than two and a half years (which is a pretty long time in Jukesie-years) I will be moving on from my current role in a couple of months and…

  • Having a hiatus

    After 420 blogposts over five and a bit years I have decided to take an indefinite hiatus from this blog. I’m sure I’ll be back and maybe sooner than I am currently expecting but for now I am going to try something a little different… …though not that different. I’m still going to be blogging – just…

  • 2012 – a self-indulgent review of the year!

    Time for my annual self indulgent review of the year. This is the 4th year I’ve done this – 2009 was pretty horrible then things picked up over 2010 and 2011. Unfortunately at least work wise this year has been a bit of a step back. For the first time since about 2004 I feel…