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Some terrifying numbers in Ed Zitron’s post AI Is Too Expensive: But LLMs are too expensive! They cost too much to run, and said costs appear to increase linearly with revenues. The more a user uses a product, the more…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave
I am LOVING Kev Rowe’s continued blogging about the low-code digital platform development at Luton, some of the thinking behind it, and how it ties in with the corporate strategy for the town: … we’re building towards a more complete…
On the New Stack blog: Who will maintain the web when PHP’s veterans retire? A new Perforce report finds PHP’s developer base is aging out faster than it’s being replenished — and AI-generated code may be making the problem worse,…
We visited another National Trust place on Sunday – making decent use of our membership. Very middle class and age of course, but it gets me out of the house. This time we visited Peckover House in Wisbech, 15 minutes…
Apparently, the Bristol Mayor leads GovTech manifesto: The manifesto, developed at the Govtech 4 Impact World Congress 2026 in Madrid, calls for a coordinated, market-shaping approach that positions cities and regions as active market shapers in the global GovTech industry.…
Phil blogs about a prototype tool he has been to allow users to explore the connections between the various bits of the Local Government Architecture Model he and others at GDS Local have been working on. You can access the…
Carl Haggerty shares his ‘year note’ about his first 12 months in post as Somerset Council’s Head of Transformation and Digital: We haven’t fully broken the reflex that speed is the answer when pressure rises. We haven’t made learning feel…
One of the most interesting and exciting things about the LGR digital Playbook project is the vision for it to be as community-led and informed as possible. The aim is to get as many people involved as we can, to…
New guidance published on GOV.UK – AI, open code and vulnerability risk in the public sector: User research suggests that the primary driver of exploitation risk is the presence of weaknesses in systems – including unpatched vulnerabilities, insecure implementation, and…
Being rigorous about decision making is an important part of any kind of digital work, but during LGR it’s vital. I shared this quick and dirty decision making framework with a client today who just needed something to ensure nothing…
Richard Pope – Public sector super apps are system-facing products, not just citizen facing ones: Public sector super apps – like Estonia’s Diia, the UK’s GOV.UK and NHS apps, Singapore’s LifeSG, and Dubai Now – provide a single place to…
Will Callaghan writes Elections and the Community Fund: … last week the fund had another major success. Three council Democratic Services teams switched from using their old software to the latest version of LocalGov Drupal Elections, paid for by contributions…
Very exciting looking job going in Dorset, working with Catherine Howe: You’ll be joining the Senior Leadership Team, reporting directly to the Chief Executive. Your directorate is around 550 colleagues across Customer Experience, Technology, Digital and Data, Libraries, Revenues and…
For my birthday, I got a surprise gift – an iPad mini! It’s really cute. Will be using it mostly to watch stuff on as a second screen, and perhaps to take with me on those rare occasions that I…
Yet another note-taking, knowledge organising type of app to play with: Logsec.
Kev Rowe is continuing to blog the progress of implementing the Netcall Liberty Create low code platform at Luton Council. It’s been a practical sprint, getting the essentials in place so the team can build quickly to a good standard…
The Register reports on issues with planning and land searches, related to recent implementations of Arcus Global’s software. No doubt rivals of Arcus will be rubbing their hands with glee, but it’s really hard to know where the problem lies.…
Although much of what I post about ‘AI’ is sceptical, I am in fact a daily user. Whether it is for helping with technical matters, or sorting out my thinking on some topic or other, I find Google’s Gemini particularly…
Am concerned that my previous post may have sounded like some kind of cry for help. It wasn’t! Everything is fine 🙂
Who am I, anyway?
Am having another one of my mini (online-) identity crises. To be clear – this is not a real crisis and almost certainly doesn’t matter at all, so please don’t be concerned for me. I would though value any thoughts…