Good news – New pilot to help councils identify and support residents at risk to vulnerability earlier: Local Digital is pleased to share that the Scalable Approach to Vulnerability via Inte... https://ift.tt/ACNsKv6

An excellent blog to follow for nerds like me that love old software. https://ift.tt/4FHCDpQ

Steph Tucker – An observation: many government content style guides exist, but they’re rarely used in practice (LinkedIn warning): A much better approach is to make content patterns and stan... https://ift.tt/fPLIqoz

Another great hire at Luton – welcome to James Bovington, joining as principal developer in the newly formed digital team. James is one of the most ingenious and thoughtful devs I’ve co... https://ift.tt/1O4YrRa

Manton Reece, the creator of micro.blog, has released a new RSS reader, Inkwell. It has some interesting features: Inkwell is built around three main tabs: Today, Recent, and Fading. Today is for ... https://ift.tt/GAk6d1O

Adrian Imms at the University of Sussex with a whole host of helpful thoughts following their experience significantly reducing the number of editors of the corporate website: In early February, w... https://ift.tt/uqeAv7K

I have had the pleasure over the last couple of years of being a member of Woking Council’s Digital Design Authority. This is a group made up of a few senior members of the digital team at th... https://ift.tt/zWjOFbX

Will Callaghan – who knows more about this stuff than most – shares his thoughts on how to be a better collaborator, based on his experience with the LocalGovDrupal project. https://ift.tt/fOcRu2t

Lovely to see the new people joining the team in Luton, and introducing themselves on the blog. Welcome to my old pal Kev Rowe 😀 https://ift.tt/UPbf652

Simon Millier from Adur & Worthing Councils reports on progress with open digital planning (Medium warning): It’s been a busy and productive period for our multi-disciplinary team. As usual we... https://ift.tt/RPiYodX

As an experiment, relating to some work I’m doing for a customer, I asked Google’s Gemini to do some deep research and write a report about the market for revenues and benefits systems for UK... https://ift.tt/vmQ3L82

This is neat: Gazette is a lightweight Gmail-to-RSS bridge designed specifically for reading newsletters in standard RSS readers. https://ift.tt/6zukWZM

The Centre for Digital Public Services in Wales has published some service patterns, exploring the ‘Book’ and ‘Apply’ patterns. It’s good stuff and to make it really u... https://ift.tt/yc8GuHB

There was a time when MacOS was lauded for the quality of its design and user experience. https://ift.tt/XnqDCUr

Doug Belshaw – The (AI) Lottery Is Already Running: AI tools arrived as things you could choose to try: chatbots, image generators, and the like. Pretty quickly, though, they’ve become... https://ift.tt/MSLyviw

Multiplayer snake in a terminal window, you say? Why not. https://ift.tt/DbMZoCP

Jerry Fishenden – A farewell to forms: Citizens routinely suffer the consequences. Multiple services require us to complete near identical steps — finding and photocopying or scanning docume... https://ift.tt/7Io5Zk1

Ben Carpenter shares some recent updates to the service standard (LinkedIn warning): We’ve made it extra clear in ‘Solve a whole problem for users’ and ‘Choose the right tools and technology... https://ift.tt/Oc7npWm

Interesting writing project from Ben Welby – The Future of (Public Sector) Product Management in a Vibe Coded World: Public service teams are at a kairos moment: a time when a new technical ... https://ift.tt/A6JYvCi

Love the way the team at Luton have adopted blogging over the last year and - more importantly - keeping it going! luton.localgov.blog/2026/02/26/a...

A bit late but... 📅 Weeknote w/e Friday 6 February 2026 da.vebrig.gs/2026/02/10/%...

@jukes.ie Like the rest of the internet, am loving your IMHO series. Any chance you could whack them all into a common category or tag for easy linkage? Many thanks in advice 😀

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What's the best way to fiddle with WordPress locally on a Mac? Still MAMP?

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@richardpope.org my RSS has come alive thanks to you - have you started doing something differently?

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Thought it time I stopped catfishing.

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This is really good: "Most of What We Call a ‘Service’ Isn’t One (and Why That Matters for Product People)" productinservice.substack.com/p/most-of-wh... by Scott Colfer (who I can't find on here)

I knew I shouldn't have upgraded to Tahoe.

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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...

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"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?...

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