A story of surviving and healing
So have been unpacking after a house-move, storage-emptying etc and keep finding forgotten objects. Today’s discovery is a Kilner jar...
A way around the platform vendors
In Things Dug cares about, Oct 18, 2026
No Kings on Instagram.
In Things Dug cares about, Oct 18, 2026Hypotheses and assumptions
In Things Dug cares about, Oct 15, 2026Mr Floyd's last words
I saw this picture on Twitter and I wanted to remember, so I typed Mr Floyd’s last words.
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Just seen this amazing post on Twitter. The 140 character limit means it’s a screengrab so I thought I’d transcribe it as this is def...
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A story of surviving and healing
So have been unpacking after a house-move, storage-emptying etc and keep finding forgotten objects. Today’s discovery is a Kilner jar filled with little bits of folded-up paper.
In Our story,
A way around the platform vendors
Basically, we’ve been talking about how to get around the platform vendors for years, but this latest foul play against No Kings feels like it could be time to start asking questions again.
In Things Dug cares about,
Hypotheses and assumptions
Would it be helpful if we started writing down all hypotheses with “Let’s try doing xyz…” and all assumptions with “We believe that…”
In Things Dug cares about,Can you design an experience by remixing?
Experience is an emergent property.
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Dave Gray's Pac-Man collection
This collection created by Dave Gray is just so wonderful I can’t get over it. https://visualframeworks.com/portfolio/pac-man/
In Linkage,
Vibe-coding safely: the SDinGov workshop
So last week was pretty intense with three days at SDinGov
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I took Alex's test
Not sure what it means but I took Alex’s test:-) Figured he took the trouble to launch it, least I could do was have a go…
In Linkage,A broken phone and no banking
So I finally dropped my phone one too many times and the camera stopped focusing. A little gentle tapping and rubbing and it seemed to start working again so forgot about it. Then yesterday had some urgent banking...
In Techno-bollocks,
A group hug
…don’t know what to say, but just wanted to share a group hug and sending some cutting-someone-a-bit-of-slack vibes on a Wednesday evening…
In Things Dug cares about,Which building is my workshop in?
Have just realised my workshop at SDinGov is not in the main building. (Scratch that it is in the main building - silly me)
In Our story,
Lake America on Google Maps
Wow, Googlemaps returns a result for Lake America. Have downloaded Organic maps. May need to switch, not least because Organic maps offers the ability to pay for the service:-)
In Techno-bollocks,LinkedIn ate the map
So Linkedin uses dynamic pagination and no doubt an evil js framework that thinks it knows better than you what you want to see.
In Techno-bollocks,
The Section 28 petition response
Just got the email from the House of Commons petitions team. I had signed Sarah Drummond’s petition to demand an enquiry into the impacts of Section 28. It’s a disappointing result:-(They wrote a long explanation ...
In Things Dug cares about,Playing with Impeccable
So have been playing with Impeccable https://impeccable.style/docs/ – it’s a remarkable tool, love the way you have a design conversation with it…
In Techno-bollocks,Slang was better before
I liked slang better before generations became culturally formal and social media enabled them to max out on self-referential commentary.
In Things Dug cares about,Smaller models, less damage
Responding to a post but thoughts too wordy for LI comments field…
In Techno-bollocks,
A workshop on owning your vibe-coded app
Have been posting re LLMs, vibe coding etc. so I thought some folk might want to attend a workshop on the topic? I’ll be focusing on questions like “where is the data” and “where is the code” and what that means f...
In Things Dug cares about,
Vindicated on the M&S discount
Vindicated! Have been asking colleagues in M&S for a 10% discount but no luck so far;-) Also, talk about waking a sleeping giant. Now imagine if Californians entered the retail space as wholesalers or shop own...
In Things Dug cares about,Taking apart a Dyson V6
Ordered some tiny Torx screwdrivers and pry tools which means I was finally able to take the old Dyson V6 completely apart. It’s knackered, but once you clean everything out including the multiple filters, it usua...
In Things Dug cares about,
What if subscriptions were regulated?
OK so having thoughts and would normally put them on blog but this is quicker.
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Meta and the no-assholes rule
Just read another post about how Facebook is doing something terrible. Yeah. Whatever…For the record, I deleted all Facebook/Meta apps off my devices back in 2017 and don’t use anything that is a fruit of that poi...
In Things Dug cares about,
Tax rates pegged to the income curve
So quite a few folk on here discussing the super-rich paying taxes again…
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GDS, DSIT and the centre of government
All this talk of reorganising departments, disbanding DSIT etc. is a bit confusing. Mind you, I was already confused…
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Research on the pattern page
As ever, the best thing ever about this pattern is all the user research with links published right on the interaction pattern’s page in the design system.So effective:-)
In Things Dug cares about,Watching 12 Angry Men
Watched the original “12 Angry Men” last night. A couple of cliché frames (it’s a Huis Clos plot after all) haven’t aged well but the story arc and the way the characters inner demons are gradually revealed as the...
In Things Dug cares about,AI and enterprise architecture, two years on
Was haggling about agents with a colleague and dug out a thing I wrote for a customer back in May 2024. Things are moving so fast, setting realistic timelines to anything seems weirder by the day. In any case, thi...
In Techno-bollocks,Riders of the Back Box Brigade
When I was looking for my first job, I used to pace up and down Madison Avenue in New York City humming a made up song “Riders of the Back Box Brigade” to the tune of Frankie Lane’s “Rawhide”.
In Our story,
Hover moved my domain without asking
Guessing no one cares about domains anymore, but I just discovered that my hosting company, Hover, has transferred one of my domains out. Without asking first. Or getting my authorisation. This is not clever.
In Techno-bollocks,Three BMW GSs
so over the years I lived with three GSs. My last one was a 1200adv which was an amazing machine, but the prettiest one was most likely the 1150… photo
In Our story,
Workday is a brilliant filter
Workday is such a brilliant filter. If I see a role for a design leader and click on “apply” and it launches Workday, it saves everyone so much time. I don’t apply, and the hiring manager doesn’t have to slog thro...
In Techno-bollocks,Two things senior civil servants dislike
Based on observation, there are two things senior civil servants generally don’t like.1) being asked for money, and2) being asked to do things that question organisational structure.That kind of gives you a bit of...
In Things Dug cares about,
Breaking the budget repeat cycle
Brian’s working on a pretty nifty approach here. Worth a look if you find your team is spending budgets on the same outcomes over and over without making actual progress…
In Linkage,Ceilidh nerves
2026 continues to be very weird (am sat freaking out about impending Ceilidh)…
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Moo
So re the Iran war (aka Operation Epstein Fury) MoU thing doing the rounds as of 17 June 2026…
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