Author: Matt Jukes

  • Cultural cheat codes

    Cultural cheat codes

    Over the years I have found myself using some slightly Machiavellian tactics to help land new ways of working and reset expectations for people not used to internet-era thinking. It remains a surprise (and something of a disappointment) how often I have to dig into this bag of tricks after so many years of doing…

  • Matt vs Automobile 2020

    Matt vs Automobile 2020

    Honestly 2020 can do one. After months of feeling lousy post-COVID and a recent bout of norovirus which was the most physically ill I can ever remember feeling I was finally starting to feel pretty good. I’d had more than a week feeling pretty healthy (for me) and had time off lined up to finally…

  • World Standards Day 2020: JobPosting schema

    World Standards Day 2020: JobPosting schema

    Since 2016 I seem to find myself finding some excuse to make an annual call for a renewed uptake of the schema.org JobPosting standard…so this year ‘World Standards Day’ gets the honor of giving me a hook to hang this post on. For five years JobPosting has been one of the UK Government’s mandated open…

  • Ada Lovelace Day 2020

    Ada Lovelace Day 2020

    According to the FindingAda website –  Ada Lovelace Day (ALD) is an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM)  – back in 2010 I wrote about the influence Kathy Sierra had on my career (this still holds) and now 10 years later I’m finally drafting a sequel (still…

  • Silver linings: 30 things I’ve enjoyed after 30 weeks locking down

    Silver linings: 30 things I’ve enjoyed after 30 weeks locking down

    Today marks 30 weeks since I got back from Oslo and started my initial lockdown. Since then I have ventured out of my immediate neighbourhood a total of five times. Including going to the pub twice. Not a lot to show for 210 days. This isn’t a woe is me post though – here are…