Digital by Default

Category: jobs

  • Leave those piñatas alone

    Leave those piñatas alone

    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…

  • Remembering Pete Ferne – 10 years on

    One of those Facebook ‘memories’ reminded me that today was the 10 year anniversary of Pete passing. Can it really have been that long? That feels crazy to me. So much of my career since has been influenced by what I learned from Pete. So many of my professional principles copied wholesale from his approach.…

  • Clueless about Codeless

    Clueless about Codeless

    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…

  • Not Not Binary No More

    Not Not Binary No More

    I have finished my interim role at Essex CC – which led to a lot of people thinking I’d left Notbinary – just in time for Notbinary to disappear and for me to once again change my LinkedIn details which should further muddy the waters. The company has gone full Megazord and combined with Disruption,…

  • Jobs I failed to get

    Jobs I failed to get

    I enjoyed the recent posts from Terence and Sam about their experiences not getting jobs and never one to miss out on a blogging trend here is mine. Early Online Publication – 1997ish I had to do a writing test as part of the interview process – nothing too fancy. The interesting thing was to…