Now this looks interesting! Telex Turns Everyone into a WordPress Block Developer: wordpress.com/blog/2025/09...

Ouch www.theregister.com/2025/09/24/u...

Great memories: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Daily note for Tuesday, 23 September 2025: da.vebrig.gs/2025/09/23/%...

"Why WordPress Lost the Cool Kids (And How to Win Them Back)" iconick.io/cool-kids/

Newsletter published: eomail5.com/web-version?...

Endel – via Matt Mullenweg – is an interesting idea, offering “[p]ersonalized soundscapes to help you focus, relax, and sleep. Backed by neuroscience.” I definitely work better when I have the right music playing – but... da.vebrig.gs/micropost/23...

"Foundational Specification to support the procurement of social care Case Management Systems" da.vebrig.gs/micropost/23...

Daily note for Thursday, 18 September 2025: da.vebrig.gs/2025/09/18/%... (a bumper edition due to forgetting to hit the button a few times this week!)

Key learnings from GOV.UK One Login discovery research for local government: www.localdigital.gov.uk/news/key-lea...

Interesting from @gilestur.bsky.social on strategy: gilest.org/notes/strate...

Have just hit send on my first newsletter of the year! It's been replatformed and rebranded - but otherwise the same mix of animals, chuntering, and helping links: eocampaign1.com/web-version?...

Daily note for Tuesday, 9 September 2025: da.vebrig.gs/2025/09/09/%...

Oh, bloody hell www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Now that summer is over and the kids are back at school, I thought I would kick off a regular online get together for local public service folk (only) to join. Last Thursday of the month, 12pm-1pm on Zoom. Sign up at lnkd.in/eVshDSw5 for free!

Daily note for Wednesday, 3 September 2025: da.vebrig.gs/2025/09/03/%...

Daily note for Thursday, 7 August 2025: da.vebrig.gs/2025/08/07/%...

Is it just me or are other people still putting 'please' in their AI prompts?

I *thought* I had settled on Devonthink as my everything bucket, but now I am falling down an Obsidian shaped rabbit hole thanks to @visitmy.website linking to this monster: stephango.com/vault

🤔 Why does it take 2 minutes for a Microsoft form to sync with its related excel sheet, while the Google equivalent does it straight away?

Trello is still a great tool for managing relatively simple projects. I've been using it for years, and have developed a template I like to use. Feel free to take a look and copy and use it for yourself! trello.com/b/WlwmSZbv/t... It's probably hideously over-engineered for most people, but hey ho.

Fabulous list of open-working pieces pulled together by @jukes.ie : digitalbydefault.com/2025/07/14/m...

Some brilliantly interesting stuff from @billt.bsky.social in here: astickadogandaboxwithsomethinginit.com/writing-the-...

"Gartner Predicts Over 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Canceled by End of 2027" www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/... via @cote.io

by @jukes.ie - "The Open Continuum" digitalbydefault.com/2025/07/14/m...

by @benholliday.com : New ways of organising - benholliday.com/2025/07/12/n...

How is it that I keep seeing these posts where people have made all these cool things with image generation AI, and I only ever get absolutely terrible results?!

I *might* be in the market for a freelance WordPress front end specialist for a VERY small project. Anyone in my network fancy helping?

Content Restrictor WordPress plugin: da.vebrig.gs/2025/06/19/c...

Some great free courses on the Government Campus bit of FutureLearn, including product management, user research, and content design: www.futurelearn.com/partners/gov...

"Why some centralising of local gov digital is needed" - by me, ELEVEN YEARS AGO. da.vebrig.gs/2014/09/09/w...

What's the go to thing to easily transcribe the audio out of a video, tidy up the umms and ahhs, etc?

Digital and mission-driven government: digital, burdens and networks – @richardpope.org's first essay of three looking at how his Platformland thinking “can provide a unifying role in the successful delivery of the government’s missions”. www.nesta.org.uk/feature/digi...

Defo agree with this!

Good lord www.ferret.co.uk/Default.aspx

Daily note for Thursday, 5 June 2025: da.vebrig.gs/2025/06/05/%...

Ben Holliday on ‘networked responsibility’: benholliday.com/2025/04/11/n... (published a while ago but just got to it!)

Some interesting notes in this post about the issues of the local gov software market: localstuffforlocalgovpeople.angrytrainface.com/a-collective...

Was HMRC the victim of a cyber attack? No, not really. Would help if journalists recognised that security is more about trade-offs than absolutes. That's not to say you can't criticise an org's choice of trade-off. Good piece from @edent.tel shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06...

In case you missed this thrilling epic yesterday.

Just blogged: 💻 New Mac, new setup (June 2025) da.vebrig.gs/2025/06/03/%...

This is very good from @jasonkitcat.bsky.social - digitaltrade.blog.gov.uk/2025/05/27/w... Much more mature version of what we tried to do, eh @neillyneil.bsky.social ?

Daily note for Tuesday, 3 June 2025: da.vebrig.gs/2025/06/03/%...

As part of my accidental blogging break this year, I also didn't open my news reader (yes I am old school). This means I currently have over 8,000 unread articles... [keep reading: da.vebrig.gs/micropost/22... ]

Emily Webber's new course on building communities of practice looks good: emilywebber.co.uk/ive-launched...

Nice, insightful set of principles around how Martin Wright writes his weeknotes: www.mynameismartin.co.uk/blog/how-i-w...

The Somerset Council target operating model is quite nice, I think www.somerset.gov.uk/target-opera...

Having Touch ID on a keyboard is nice - having on a mouse would be even better.

Eddie Copeland on digital leadership da.vebrig.gs/micropost/22...

Just blogged: 😮‍💨 Coming up for air da.vebrig.gs/2025/05/20/%...