Cats say a £22bn investment in Dreamies and new Catnip technologies will boost Britain's economy in the next few years

I dread to think how many Microsofts Dynamics licences the UK government has promised to buy in return www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just popping this here www.youtube.com/watch?v=BArZ...

Thoroughly enjoyed Shifty, Adam Curtis’ new show on iPlayer - this person is a horse box manufacturer trying to access the new world of global finance.

I bet none of the vulnerable systems involved were Microsoft. All their software is top notch www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Banging moth in the bathroom

I'm glad for-profit AI models are partially trained with dyslexic writing, including my own, which is riddled with grammatical errors and spelling mistakes.

National Trust cards arrived. Calling it, I’m middle-aged now.

Me: "Gemini, update the typeface across all our documents." Gemini: 😑 Me: "Yeah, I thought so."

Some things I consciously do, but its definitely not enough: 🧵👇

I want to do more to make women safe. Both what I can do personally and as a dad of a one and soon to be two small boys. I love the folksy bits of the internet, but that's some horrid shit out. With toxic business models and men behind them. Open to suggestions.

@sujanshah.bsky.social thanks for all the great stuff on Planet FPL. Best money I spent all month. Who should I replace Gabriel and possibly Elanga with? I'm planning to bench boost GW32

Made a slides / prototype mashup for a talk us at @dxw.com did recently. Avoids the clunkiness of leaving and returning to slides to demo a prototype.

Get in - we’ve finally got clean drinking water. Six months ago we discovered we have a lead pipe supplying us water We’ve had to spend a fortune on bottled water and getting a whole new pipe dug into the front of our place.

Is Flop Bing’s dad?

Any gov design folk on here know if the GOV.UK Prototype Kit blocks third-party web analytics?

I noticed our town council swapped an old van for an electric. Shouldn’t it just be law all new public service vehicles be electric? Excluding certain emergency ones. A cheap policy that encourages EV market and infrastructure. And improves health and environment obvs.

Drake was playing at the kids soft play yesterday. A bit on the nose.

Only dweebs have code names for tech projects imo #stargateAI

Definitely leaned more into playing fantasy football in my free time, to avoid doom scrolling, especially since the November US election.

I've recently been using @ffh-hq.bsky.social AI tool to plan my #FPL team each week. Averaging 8 points over the predicted gameweek score. The variation is massive, from -22 to +55 over the predicted. Not sure what this says about the accuracy of the AI or the randomness of football?

Loving Emmanuel Petit’s look these days - Legolas’ dad does Newsnight.

Always worth checking clothes pockets before washing. Just forked out £45 to get our machine unclogged. My fave debris find was a googly eye 👀

I feel fortunate to have dodged using Jira until now. Such a confusing, over engineered thing to use. I counted 47 buttons on a single page. Can't figure out where I should look or click and my job is literally designing computer interfaces.

The new design of annajones.co.uk is great. Makes static recipe information easier to following with a few little interactive touches. Such as a toggle between metric and cups, checkboxes and sorting ingredients into the recipes steps.

Enjoying the clean and calm design of fpl.live. Makes tracking fantasy football points simpler. Especially when fantasy football points are fast changing within multiple matches.

Anytime I see a letter published by government, I always imagine it read aloud by an actor, like on BBC's Points of View www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITGM...

Gosh, what possessed me to go to the supermarket the Sunday before Xmas?! Cars queuing to get in and out it was so busy. I thought I’d never get out. Was worried I’d have to live there over the holidays

We know some folks will be working over the next couple of weeks. Thank you ❤️ If you’re taking time off over the Christmas period and celebrating, have a great time! We’ll see you in 2025...

Urgh, where to start?! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Festival fact, you can make mulled wine in a kettle.

Line making machine at local playing field. Lovely.

I do love a good water valve sign🚰

No #fpl keeper for me this weekend, then 😐

I find it dead fun silently killing a stodgy back-office system. No contract renegotiations, data migrations or mega-build replacements. Slowly but surely, feature by feature, the old system is gone and forgotten. "We stopped using this system months ago; we could turn it off tomorrow."

Calling all public sector content folk

Name a Microsoft application that isn't garbage? I honestly can't think of one. (I don't count GitHub or ChatGPT, as they were recently acquired / built independently from MS)

Our team is working on a register of accommodation 🏨 Does anyone know a gov API that allows companies like Airbnb, booking.com to register people's properties for things like tourist levies / taxes? Doesn't have to be the UK, could be any jurisdictions around the world 🌏

A workmate pointed out to me what I heard as "anarchist butchers". They actually said "anarchist bookshop". I can't help but feel a little disappointed.

Quite ominously, the town then decides to shop at a local, independent shop, that grows out of control and they end up burning down too 😬

I’m remembering this week the South Park episode which ends with the town burning down Wallmart www.youtube.com/watch?v=veKV...

I know its dry for most, but it's good seeing IT procurement covered more in the mainstream news. It effects the experience of so many public services. In this case, if I was a parent at an affected school, I'd want to know. Also the sums involved are 🥹 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Stephen King being kicked off X for calling The Translucent Tosser 'America's First Lady' is priceless. God, these guys are so thin-skinned.

I do love subeditors sometimes; the choice of photo for this article is 👌

Just the type of thing we should apply Al to imo: - low risk of harm to humans or our environment - small interaction with a machine - objectively useful - makes machines less faffy - give people some time back

AI scales at supermarket. Camera recognises what veg it’s weighing.

Anyone on here designed setting up a direct debit? Working on a public service that wants to make it easier for its users. There must be some good practice out there to copy.

Us lot at @dxw.bsky.social have written down some ideas about the designing a digital centre in gov: 1. Move digital procurement to the centre 2. Nationalise the workforce 3. Break up back-office systems 4. Designing the post-digital public service www.dxw.com/2024/10/4-id...