Dave

Dave

Daily note for 12 June 2023

I don’t do so well in this heat. I’m really enjoying an Apple Music playlist, Living the Library – fairly quiet, mostly instrumental ‘electronic’ music. Good to work to. Interesting point made by Brandon on Software Defined Talk, that I…

Daily note for 8 June 2023

Busy couple of days, hence no notes until today. "Are.na is a platform for connecting ideas and building knowledge" via Coté. "Inside Snopes: the rise, fall, and rebirth of an internet icon" Emily Webber has published The Team…

Daily note for 5 June 2023

I love markdown but using it for presentations might be pushing it a bit "Why did Usenet fail?" Log into twitter. Ooh! Notifications. 5 tweets in a row from someone called Elon Musk who I don’t follow. Log…

Daily note for 2nd June 2023

A pleasant walk along the drain at lunchtime. Merlin enjoyed having a swim and a sprint. “Redbridge Council launches digital housing repairs service” I spend most of my working day using a Windows all-in-one desktop thing, and less time…

Daily note for 1 June 2023

2 cracking posts from dxw on what service designers get up to during the beta phase of a project (there’s a link at the bottom to part 2) Videos from the 2022 Service Design in Gov conference: Fab…

Daily note for 31 May 2023

Am going to try this note without bullets, just to see how that goes. Feedback welcome! I’ve deleted all the social media apps from my phone as an experiment. Cote has done a daynote: “We Need to Rethink ‘Digital’…

Thoughts on blogging formats

I spent way too much time thinking about this stuff. My recent playing around with the daily note format, plus tinkering with Mastodon etc, and following the exploits of Dave Winer and others on their blogs, has made me start…

Daily note for 30 May 2023

I’m playing again on Mastodon, mostly because Twitter is starting to feel more broken than ever. I’m not altogether happy about it, mind. I think a big part of it is that all the things that Mastodon wants to fix…

Daily note for 25 May 2023

I’ve been busy getting married! and also being ill Saturday was amazing, beautiful weather, a nice simple ceremony and then a party with many of our favourite people. Am a very happy and contented man right now However I then…

Daily note for 18 May 2023

It’s really annoying when ctrl-k doesn’t work as a shortcut to insert a link somewhere It’s the agile mindset that matters for local government (by me) Two wonderful bit of work (and blogging) by Essex Learning, More…