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…

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…

It has been a tough couple of weeks for public service digital teams. First there was the PHE/NHS ‘test and trace’ Excel crisis and now there is the ‘National Careers Service’ assessment tool becoming a Twitter piñata. In both cases armies of ‘experts’ have had their say with everything from constructive criticism to conspiracy theories…

In the past I’ve been a bit dismissive of no/low code solutions – the examples I saw in the past seemed fraught with problems and just seemed to be storing up more problems for the future than they were solving in the present. I always saw the appeal though and it is no surprise that…