📅 Weeknote w/e Friday 13 February 2026

Another Tuesday posting! Weeks are flying by. I guess this is part of getting older. That and getting increasingly bad at remembering, well, anything.

This week’s worky highlights:

• The publication of the LGR DDaT playbook has been postponed for a couple of weeks. It’s a shame but can’t be helped. In the meantime we are writing the next sections, organising new community activities, and all that stuff.
• Am also getting a bit more involved in another strand of work with Local Digital, around future tech strategies for councils. How do we create the conditions to make it easier for councils to invest in better tech? Various ideas are being worked on – including some things I’ve wanted to see happen for years!
• More interviews at Luton, this time for a senior role leading on IG. Once again, great candidates and a terrific hire made.
• Delivered a couple more demos of Skillstats, and enquiries are still coming in as well, which is lovely. Getting close to those who have purchased going live too, which is exciting.

Not really work stuff:

• I added email subscriptions to the blog. I haven’t managed to get a newsletter out this year, so I guess this is a way to make myself feel better about that.
• Properly had a play with the default Apple Notes app on the phone and desktop. Trying to use it to organise myself a bit – it does a lot more than I thought it did. Have set up a note to act as a todo list, organised into now, next, and later to try and keep everything in one place. I give it a week before it all falls apart!

Media consumption:

• I finally finished Until I Find You and it was really quite good. A high 4/5 from me.
• Watched the end of The Rip on Netflix, which was also good – recommended for those who like twisty thrillers.
• Saw the finale of The Traitors’ most recent season. There was a palpable moment where I thought “They’re actually going to do it!”. Great fun.
• I find modern computer games just too damn complicated for my simple brain, so imagine how delighted I was to get Micropolis working on my Mac. It’s basically the original 1989 version of Sim City. Great for whiling away the odd hour – and not too much more.