Author: Matt Jukes

  • My Alpha Alpha

    My Alpha Alpha

    Today is the six year anniversary of launching the ‘ONS Alpha’ into the wild. It is also the ninth birthday of GDS and it feels appropriate that they share a day as one wouldn’t have existed without the other. Working on the Alpha (ONS have done many Alphas since – many more complex and better…

  • November 2020

    November 2020

    Well November has been a challenge. As I wrote at the end of October I got myself into an altercation with a car at a pedestrian crossing. I did not walk away. I had the operation to repair my foot on the 2nd of November. It turned out to be quite a bit more involved…

  • 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…