Dave Briggs

"Why I quit my job at Google to work in local government" https://laurenjong.medium.com/why-i-quit-my-job-at-google-to-work-in-local-government-dc372221048b The blog post that ‘invented’ hashtags: https://factoryjoe.com/2007/08/25/groups-for-twitter-or-a-proposal-for-twitter-tag-channels/ "Transforming Service Delivery in the Public Sector" (largely US based) https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/14883/583381

Teignbridge Council are looking for a Head of Digital https://jobs.teignbridge.gov.uk/itlivetdc_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=9431212Ag3&WVID=4966600DE4&LANG=USA There’s a QR code scanner app built into iOS?! https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/19/qr-codes-iphone Not That Kind of Open: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/19/not-that-kind-of-open Essex County Council hosted "a generative AI Hackathon" https://servicetransformation.blog.essex.gov.uk/2023/06/19/hosting-a-generative-ai-hackathon/ Am really enjoying the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast – just the perfect pitch of cynicism and loathing of silicon … Keep reading

“Why did the #TwitterMigration fail?” https://blog.bloonface.com/2023/06/12/why-did-the-twittermigration-fail/ On similar lines: “Bluesky Has Problems” https://nucleardiner.wordpress.com/2023/06/12/bluesky-has-problems/ I suspect Twitter will sort itself out before any of these others things manage to take off. This seems interesting: https://blockprotocol.org/wordpress (Background: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2022/12/19/progress-on-the-block-protocol/)

Happy Bloomsday! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsday A fairly sensible take on AI stuff from dxw https://www.dxw.com/2023/06/artificial-intelligence-is-here-what-do-i-need-to-know/ Can’t work out if this is a good idea or not https://www.beeper.com/ "Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-law. But always meeting ourselves." ― James Joyce, … Keep reading

"Strive for alignment rather than aiming for universal agreement" https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/strive-alignment-rather-than-aiming-universal-robert-musekiwa "Multi-Cloud, Still an Actual Thing after All These Years" https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/state-of-kubernetes-2023-multi-cloud "Proven Practices for Developing a Multicloud Strategy" https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/enterprise-strategy/proven-practices-for-developing-a-multicloud-strategy/ (Those last two both via Coté https://social.lol/@cote) Am enjoying Spellcaster, a podcast about crypto-bozo Sam Bankman-Fried and his FTX disaster zone https://wondery.com/shows/spellcaster/ (I don’t necessarily understand it … Keep reading