Dave Briggs
@da.vebrig.gs
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Local government loving digital pragmatist.
https://www.davebriggs.xyz
Daily note for Monday, 10 November 2025:
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📅 Daily Note: November 10, 2025 – Dave Briggs
https://da.vebrig.gs/2025/11/10/%f0%9f%93%85-daily-note-november-10-2025/
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Daily note for Monday, 3 November 2025:
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📅 Daily Note: November 3, 2025 – Dave Briggs
https://da.vebrig.gs/2025/11/03/%f0%9f%93%85-daily-note-november-3-2025/
13 days ago
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Daily note for Wednesday, 29 October 2025:
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📅 Daily Note: October 29, 2025 – Dave Briggs
https://da.vebrig.gs/2025/10/29/%f0%9f%93%85-daily-note-october-29-2025/
18 days ago
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@richardpope.org
my RSS has come alive thanks to you - have you started doing something differently?
19 days ago
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Daily note for Tuesday, 21 October 2025:
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📅 Daily Note: October 21, 2025 – Dave Briggs
https://da.vebrig.gs/2025/10/21/%f0%9f%93%85-daily-note-october-21-2025/
26 days ago
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Daily note for Thursday, 16 October 2025:
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📅 Daily Note: October 16, 2025 – Dave Briggs
https://da.vebrig.gs/2025/10/16/%f0%9f%93%85-daily-note-october-16-2025/
about 1 month ago
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Thought it time I stopped catfishing.
about 1 month ago
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Daily note for Monday, 6 October 2025:
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📅 Daily Note: October 6, 2025 – Dave Briggs
https://da.vebrig.gs/2025/10/06/%f0%9f%93%85-daily-note-october-6-2025/
about 1 month ago
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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)
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Most of What We Call a ‘Service’ Isn’t One
Product in Service October 2025
https://productinservice.substack.com/p/most-of-what-we-call-a-service-isnt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2na5se&triedRedirect=true
about 1 month ago
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I knew I shouldn't have upgraded to Tahoe.
about 1 month ago
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Daily note for Tuesday, 30 September 2025:
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📅 Daily Note: September 30, 2025 – Dave Briggs
https://da.vebrig.gs/2025/09/30/%f0%9f%93%85-daily-note-september-30-2025/
about 2 months ago
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Now this looks interesting! Telex Turns Everyone into a WordPress Block Developer:
wordpress.com/blog/2025/09...
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Telex Turns Everyone into a WordPress Block Developer
WordPress block development usually requires advanced technical expertise. Telex changes that by letting you describe what you want and get a working block plugin instantly with prompts.
https://wordpress.com/blog/2025/09/23/telex-turns-everyone-into-a-wordpress-block-developer/
about 2 months ago
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Ouch
www.theregister.com/2025/09/24/u...
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Mega city council delays fix to disaster Oracle system again
: System meant to go live in 2021 costing £20M awaits reimplementation with new £170M price tag
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/24/uk_mega_council_delays_fix/
about 2 months ago
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Great memories:
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Nottingham Forest’s last European adventure: ‘Klinsmann knows my name!’
Steve Stone, Ian Woan, Mark Crossley, Jason Lee and co reminisce about Forest’s 1995-96 Uefa Cup campaign
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/sep/24/nottingham-forest-1995-96-uefa-cup-steve-stone-jurgen-klinsmann
about 2 months ago
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Daily note for Tuesday, 23 September 2025:
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📅 Daily Note: September 23, 2025 – Dave Briggs
https://da.vebrig.gs/2025/09/23/%f0%9f%93%85-daily-note-september-23-2025/
about 2 months ago
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"Why WordPress Lost the Cool Kids (And How to Win Them Back)"
iconick.io/cool-kids/
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Why WordPress Lost the Cool Kids (And How to Win Them Back) » iconick
WordPress runs 43% of the internet, but try mentioning it in a design Discord and watch the cringe reactions. While WordPress quietly powers The New York
https://iconick.io/cool-kids/
about 2 months ago
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Newsletter published:
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👨🏻🏫 A simple user centred design workshop exercise
How I reminded myself last week about the joys of face to face learning
https://eomail5.com/web-version?p=099a670a-8fcd-11f0-9037-6d63846b2b6c&pt=campaign&t=1758621614&s=aa6ff7d2af9b31492c1213263608d87cc81584e9bbadc21838e86e73aa043f35
about 2 months ago
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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...
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Dave Briggs
https://da.vebrig.gs/micropost/23059/
about 2 months ago
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"Foundational Specification to support the procurement of social care Case Management Systems"
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Dave Briggs
https://da.vebrig.gs/micropost/23057/
about 2 months ago
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Daily note for Thursday, 18 September 2025:
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(a bumper edition due to forgetting to hit the button a few times this week!)
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📅 Daily Note: September 18, 2025 – Dave Briggs
https://da.vebrig.gs/2025/09/18/%f0%9f%93%85-daily-note-september-18-2025/
about 2 months ago
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Key learnings from GOV.UK One Login discovery research for local government:
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Key learnings from GOV.UK One Login discovery research for local government | Local Digital
In this blog, we share key findings and insights from our research, based on conversations with councils and suppliers.
https://www.localdigital.gov.uk/news/key-learnings-from-gov-uk-one-login-discovery-research-for-local-government/
2 months ago
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Interesting from
@gilestur.bsky.social
on strategy:
gilest.org/notes/strate...
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gilest.org: The strategy is enquiry
https://gilest.org/notes/strategy-enquiry.html
2 months ago
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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:
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No more Daveslist - welcome to the Localise newsletter!
I've ditched Substack and rebranded the newsletter. Hope you don't mind.
https://eocampaign1.com/web-version?p=a61d34f2-8994-11f0-ac84-5b7d9dd27eea&pt=campaign&t=1757508064&s=1acefe836809ae23de8d3ee089471d7e8686b3e8f719d030a41ce08a74cc5119
2 months ago
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Daily note for Tuesday, 9 September 2025:
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📅 Daily Note: September 9, 2025 – Dave Briggs
https://da.vebrig.gs/2025/09/09/%f0%9f%93%85-daily-note-september-9-2025/
2 months ago
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Oh, bloody hell
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Ange Postecoglou agrees to replace Nuno Espírito Santo at Nottingham Forest
Ange Postecoglou has agreed to replace Nuno Espírito Santo as the Nottingham Forest head coach, after the Portuguese was relieved of his duties
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/sep/09/nottingham-forest-part-company-with-head-coach-nuno-espirito-santo
2 months ago
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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!
2 months ago
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Daily note for Wednesday, 3 September 2025:
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📅 Daily Note: September 3, 2025 – Dave Briggs
https://da.vebrig.gs/2025/09/03/%f0%9f%93%85-daily-note-september-3-2025/
2 months ago
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Daily note for Thursday, 7 August 2025:
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📅 Daily Note: August 7, 2025 – Dave Briggs
https://da.vebrig.gs/2025/08/07/%f0%9f%93%85-daily-note-august-7-2025/
3 months ago
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Is it just me or are other people still putting 'please' in their AI prompts?
4 months ago
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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
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How I use Obsidian
My personal Obsidian vault template. A bottom-up approach to note-taking and organizing things I am interested in.
https://stephango.com/vault
4 months ago
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🤔 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?
4 months ago
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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.
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Trello
Organize anything, together. Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, know what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a pro...
https://trello.com/b/WlwmSZbv/template-project
4 months ago
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Fabulous list of open-working pieces pulled together by
@jukes.ie
:
digitalbydefault.com/2025/07/14/m...
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[Make things open] Reading list
Not being quite the narcissist I am sometimes accused of I try to recommend other peoples thoughts on working in the open whenever possible. These are my most shared links on the topic; Blogging an…
https://digitalbydefault.com/2025/07/14/make-things-open-reading-list/
4 months ago
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Some brilliantly interesting stuff from
@billt.bsky.social
in here:
astickadogandaboxwithsomethinginit.com/writing-the-...
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Writing the Public Internet – A Stick a Dog and a Box With Something In It
https://astickadogandaboxwithsomethinginit.com/writing-the-public-internet/
4 months ago
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"Gartner Predicts Over 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Canceled by End of 2027"
www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/...
via
@cote.io
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Gartner: Over 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Canceled by End 2027
Over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027, due to escalating costs, unclear business value or inadequate risk controls, according to Gartner.
https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-06-25-gartner-predicts-over-40-percent-of-agentic-ai-projects-will-be-canceled-by-end-of-2027?utm_campaign=SM_GB_YOY_GTR_SOC_SF1_SM-PR&utm_source=threads,twitter&utm_medium=social
4 months ago
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by
@jukes.ie
- "The Open Continuum"
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[Make things open] The Open Continuum
Working in the open can seem scary and a bit all or nothing. I suspect I do not help with this with my stories of the extreme ups and downs of the practice and certainly there is some risk…not as m…
https://digitalbydefault.com/2025/07/14/make-things-open-the-open-continuum/
4 months ago
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by
@benholliday.com
: New ways of organising -
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New ways of organising
Revisiting service-oriented approaches and thinking about the organising principles needed to support system-level change.
https://benholliday.com/2025/07/12/new-ways-of-organising/
4 months ago
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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?!
4 months ago
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I *might* be in the market for a freelance WordPress front end specialist for a VERY small project. Anyone in my network fancy helping?
5 months ago
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Content Restrictor WordPress plugin:
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Content Restrictor WordPress plugin – Dave Briggs
https://da.vebrig.gs/2025/06/19/content-restrictor-wordpress-plugin/
5 months ago
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Some great free courses on the Government Campus bit of FutureLearn, including product management, user research, and content design:
www.futurelearn.com/partners/gov...
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Government Campus UK Online Courses | FutureLearn
Study with Government Campus UK and enhance your creative skills with courses on content design, writing & more. Earn certificates & learn at your own pace.
https://www.futurelearn.com/partners/government-campus-uk
5 months ago
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"Why some centralising of local gov digital is needed" - by me, ELEVEN YEARS AGO.
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Why some centralising of local gov digital is needed – Dave Briggs
https://da.vebrig.gs/2014/09/09/why-some-centralising-of-local-gov-digital-is-needed/
5 months ago
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What's the go to thing to easily transcribe the audio out of a video, tidy up the umms and ahhs, etc?
5 months ago
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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...
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Digital and mission-driven government: digital, burdens and networks
How well-designed digital-age services can eliminate administrative burdens and create new networks of people and organisations at very low cost.
https://www.nesta.org.uk/feature/digital-and-mission-driven-government/digital-and-mission-driven-government-digital-burdens-and-networks/
5 months ago
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Defo agree with this!
add a skeleton here at some point
5 months ago
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Good lord
www.ferret.co.uk/Default.aspx
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Ferret Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits
Ferret produces PC and mobile systems for the assessment of welfare benefits, tax and pension credits, and disabled facilities grants (DFGs). The systems are designed to provide support to advice work...
https://www.ferret.co.uk/Default.aspx
5 months ago
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Daily note for Thursday, 5 June 2025:
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📅 Daily Note: June 5, 2025 – Dave Briggs
https://da.vebrig.gs/2025/06/05/%f0%9f%93%85-daily-note-june-5-2025/
5 months ago
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Ben Holliday on ‘networked responsibility’:
benholliday.com/2025/04/11/n...
(published a while ago but just got to it!)
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Networked responsibility
Digital transformation has to be a people movement – networked responsibility is the role we all have as individual leaders in making this happen.
https://benholliday.com/2025/04/11/networked-responsibility/
5 months ago
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Some interesting notes in this post about the issues of the local gov software market:
localstuffforlocalgovpeople.angrytrainface.com/a-collective...
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a collective big carrot 🥕, or stick 🏏, to make software less bad
a bit more on the idea from the last . i’ve sent it off to local digital to see what they think 🤔 but i am interested in: - ...
https://localstuffforlocalgovpeople.angrytrainface.com/a-collective-big-carrot-or-stick-to-make-software-less-bad/
5 months ago
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reposted by
Dave Briggs
Tom Loosemore
5 months ago
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...
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What is a "Cyber Attack"?
Terminology is hard. Computer terminology is even harder. Humans are animals who just love to classify things. We have a fundamental need in our delicious meaty brains to put things into conceptual bu...
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/what-is-a-cyber-attack/
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