Category: jobs

  • Boosting Bluesky

    Boosting Bluesky

    I seem to have made it my side-mission this year to encourage as many people as I can to join (and actually use) Bluesky with varying levels of success until quite recently…but now things are heating up nicely due to the shenanigans of the Muskrat X-where. Though there is every chance the site might follow…

  • [2024] Week 35

    [2024] Week 35

    Second week at GDS/GOV.UK and I am starting to feel at least a little useful and that I might have an idea of what I need to do to add some value around the place. There were more intro meetings this week but also there were meetings interspersed where I was able to contribute a…

  • [2024] Week 34

    [2024] Week 34

    34 in a row is my longest ever weeknote streak without taking a break and launching a new ‘season’ – and that previous record was way back in 2010. So yay me I guess 😀. My intention is to keep going until the end of the year but with the new job who knows. Speaking…

  • [2024] Week 33

    [2024] Week 33

    The only work adjacent thing this week is all the contract and compliance stuff got sorted so I was able to say that my new contract is with the GOV.UK team at the Government Digital Service. I’m starting Monday and am excited and a little nervous – despite what many folks think I have never…

  • Cynical optimism

    Cynical optimism

    This is a stub for a potential future blogpost (or sticker or t-shirt) because I have found myself describing my current mindset as ‘cynical optimism’ multiple times in recent days/weeks. Dom and the Futuregov crew were talking about being ‘Militant Optimists’ as far back as 2017 (this was a typo – Dom was definitely using…