Weeknotes, including: - CMS training - inbox requests - blog functionality @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

10 favourite albums from 2025:

Weeknotes, including: - pulling together user research insights - chats about blog functionality - loads of great talks @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

Hi! I'm someone who has the audacity to be brown and autistic on the Internet, and I wrote this piece because I'm also too audacious to care about whether I make certain people uncomfortable. It's not about you! But if you THINK it's about you, then it most definitely is. Hope this helps!

(Short) weeknotes, including: - LocalGov Drupal week talks - usability testing - cookie banner tweaks

Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)

Hey autistic and non-autistic Aussies. Onorah needs more participants for their research. The survey isn't too long or difficult and it's for a good cause!

Looking for examples of 'service veneers' where a solution has been plastered over a complex series of services with the promise of a streamlined better experience but hasn't done hard work to improve whole system. Think like 'life stage' digitised journeys or outcomes still being hard to meet

Weeknotes, including: - finally publishing some minor form question changes - interesting meet ups about user behaviour and ai, and accessible forms - exploring potential tweaks to step by step functionality in LocalGov Drupal @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

The new episode of Philosophy Tube is about birth rates, ageing populations, and moral panics. Check it out! 👶 youtu.be/AIDnr646tLA?...

Great talk on cognitive accessibility 👏 @localgovdrupal.bsky.social

Weeknotes, including: - publishing forms guidance - planning user research - interesting service pattern meet ups @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

Excited to see Turnstile tonight 🦅

Studios Enter Bidding War Over Napkin Stephen King Wrote ‘Ghoul’ On

ngl i think it’s telling that film people are always posting cute little jokes about “xyz” coded character being autistic but one of the major festival movies this year has an explicitly autistic character played by an autistic actor and suddenly no one has anything to say

Do not underestimate the fact that you don't have to spend it with your family if you don't want.

Hallo-weeknotes, including: - chats about information governance - cookie banner improvements - being in 'waiting to hear back' mode 🎃 @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

AS IF I snuck this episode of Systems of Harm out yesterday without posting about it - but 90% of the design systems community was at Converge. This week’s guest is none other than @bradfrost.com (‼️) talking about design systems and ADHD. Apple: apple.co/4qQfR50 RSS: bit.ly/43gtLkB

Weeknotes, including: - trying out a different weeknote format - slow and steady progress - collaborating on forms guidance @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

217 people have now registered for UK Gov Camp 2026 ( #ukgc26 ) in #Birmingham on Saturday 17 January 2026. Register to attend or sponsor via UKGovCamp.com, repost this message and share with your colleagues. We welcome everyone, whether you work with the #PublicSector or not. #unconference

"User-centred" in Welsh is: Gwaith sy'n canolbwyntio ar y defnyddiwr (Work that centres on the users) Don't suppose there's a shorter way of saying this?

Register register register! 🎉

Weeknotes, including: - slow and steady progress - contact us conundrums - demoing new functionality @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

Bluesky’s limited character count + my Covid brain resulted in this being quite a lacklustre bit of promo. But IMHO this is one the most important episodes of this series. The rights and safety of trans people are being politicised, threatened and eroded right now and we have a duty to fight that

UKGovCamp Birmingham: Join Us! UKGovCamp is happening on 17 Jan 2026. If you work in gov and haven’t attended, now’s the time! Leaders in policy, operations, and diversity, please share with your teams, connect with colleagues, and help spread the word! Contact us to get involved.

The new series of The Assembly dropped on ITVX at the weekend, starring David Tennant and Danny Dyer. Here’s an article I wrote last year about the show’s format and portrayals of autism on screen. medium.com/@elsalwillia...

Weeknotes, including: - new cookie banner going live - tiny bits of progress on form questions - snazzy campaign pages @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

Happy Friday! If you'd like to listen to a talk on considering intersectionality and compounding barriers when we think about accessibility, the recording is now on YouTube! Thank you @contentdesign.london @tomyoull.bsky.social @niacampbell.bsky.social @adrianortega.bsky.social for having me! 💖

The questionnaire, which is supposedly meant to indicate whether or not you’re autistic, is actually out to roast every flaw you’ve ever been insecure about.

Weeknotes, including: - attending a short design sprint - trying to make training docs - watching a fab cross gov content club talk @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

Little reminder that Inclusive Design 24 is currently happening, and the talks and discussions have been fantastic so far!! It's free and you can join live, but also, you can catch the replays on YouTube later. Here you go: inclusivedesign24.org/2025/ #Accesssibility #InclusiveDesign #id24

this is very good www.gov.uk/service-manu...

Location Matters: Everyday Gender Discrimination in Remote and On-site Work - pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/... via @betterallies.bsky.social "Women tend to face significantly more gender discrimination when they are on-site than when working remotely."

Chuffed to see this get a massive boost yesterday. If you haven’t already, please read, sign and share (fellas, the read and share bit applies to you too)

Weeknotes, including: - prototypes that are too pretty - figuring out maps - attending a really good talk about AI and content design (a sensible one not a silly over-hyping one) @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

please, think about the damage you might cause before sending an invoice

I'm not sure about this branding but I'm not the billionaire business genius

would you still work for me if I were a worm?

Do not use Gemini in Google Sheets for any kind of data analysis. Just tried it for some very simple survey analysis,and when I double-checked the results, there were discrepancies. Dug into it, and it seems to be inventing things.

Weeknotes, including: - sacking off a tool that tested badly - fun in person meet ups - interesting online meet ups It was a week of meet ups. Meet ups. @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

🚀 New to Drupal or mentoring a junior dev? Mark Conroy’s @mark.ie‬ latest guide covers nodes, blocks, views, and config management—with examples and docs links. Great foundational resource: 🔗 https://bit.ly/46xYcpt ##Drupal #WebDev #OpenSource #DrupalTraining

Weeknotes, including: * writing form questions * attending an interesting accessible maps session * high quality cheese toasties @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social