Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Let it Grow – the new GOV.UK strategy

    Republished from Notion noteGDS has blogged about the new strategy for GOV.UKand it has certainly got some tongues wagging. It has identified nine areas of focus for the next couple of years and at least two or three of them were inevitably going to controversial with the wider digital gov community here in the UK –…

  • Halt and Catch Feelings

    Halt and Catch Feelings

    I’ve just re-watched all four seasons of ‘Halt and Catch Fire’. If you are reading this post there is every chance you’ve at least heard of this underrated gem of ‘premium television’. If you aren’t aware of it, it is the story of the early days of personal computing / the internet / gaming /…

  • 2023 Ambitions – story so far

    2023 Ambitions – story so far

    As I am prone to do I set out some ‘ambitions’ for 2023 – less New Years Resolutions, more loose goals to stop me ‘streaming’ the year away. This year they were particularly unchallenging as I crawled out of my sabbatical and the trauma of the peak Covid/Crash years. Yet as we head towards the…

  • Feeling fraudulent

    Feeling fraudulent

    I feel like a fraud.  My blogging and social media has given the impression that things are going well in my current role. That is mainly true but the reality is that I’ve been dealing with a serious issue at work since early 2023 that has been constantly in the background making it impossible to…

  • DC Days

    DC Days

    Last week I was in Washington, DC for the Code for America Summit where as well as attending keynotes and sessions I was also presenting on a panel – my first in-person talk (apart from our work All-Hands in December) since the before times (2019). I was subbing in on the panel because Sam wasn’t…