Dave

Dave

  • Joined: January 6, 2026
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Mist is an ephemeral, collaborative markdown editor in the browser. Handy!

📅 Weeknote w/e Friday 20 February 2026

Short week last week as I took a couple of days off for half term. Also, I need to get into the habit of writing these during the week they actually refer to. This week’s worky highlights: Some more Skillstats…

Doug Belshaw – I needed a scheduling tool that respects privacy. So I built one: Scheduler reads iCal feeds, so it works with Proton Calendar or any service supporting iCal/CalDAV standards. It doesn’t store calendar data, instead checking availability in…

Emily Webber – A New Communities of Practice Model for Organisational Maturity: This new model focuses on organisational maturity at five levels from low awareness to self-sustaining and setting standards across six dimensions (structure, culture, collaboration, support, technology and impact).…

Tom Loosemore published some thoughts about public services and AI on LinkedIn: Many public services rely on friction to stay viable. They depend on slow, confusing, frustrating user experiences to put off those otherwise eligible. This is both unfair and…

Missed this first time around, but there’s some interesting stuff to think about in here – Courage is required for GDS Local to succeed. There is currently both a real opportunity and a grave danger facing local government in England…

A new Mac desktop RSS aggregator for me to have a look at.

Claire Craig from the Essex Digital Service on User research in libraries: finding the voices between the bookshelves We’re currently working through a research project, exploring Essex residents’ thoughts and feelings about AI being used in public services. We’ve recruited…

New book from Public Digital, might well be worth an order: Shaping technology for transformation.

📅 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…