iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Don’t want to get my hopes up too early, but it’s looking promising 🍒

The league table of the English premiership rugby union competition. My team (Gloucester) are currently top after 2 rounds with 10 league points

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

😂 ha thanks, we shall try!

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Beautiful day for a contest ☀️

The facade of the Royal Albert Hall in the sunshine

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Careful is the word for it! It wasn’t easy in any way, but we’re pleased to show the proof that it is possible.

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Can’t believe #TheTraitors casting team have found a celebrity with even less poker face than Alan Carr.

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Final rehearsal before the Royal Albert Hall 🤞🏻

My view from the percussion section. Surrounded by instruments, with a stick tray and music in front of me, and a vaulted church ceiling up above

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 29/09/2026

GOD BLESS NIGELLA “I don’t approve of talking about food as naughty” I have been needing bake off to say that for YEARS. Food is a pleasure, not a guilty pleasure!

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Our band commissioned a 3D printing company to make miniature keepsakes of our European trophy 🥹💚

A wooden bookshelf with three awards. In the centre, the silver 3D printed European trophy. Either side are two glass plaques for previous year’s band awards

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is much more like it 🍒 #EXEvGLO

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Home safely from an enjoyable few days at #SDinGov 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 There’ll be no blog post from me this year; I simply have nothing left in the tank! You’re probably all sick of my voice anyway 😂 If you want to hear about HFU, our awesome team are writing about it: mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/category/hom...

mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk

Homes for Ukraine – MHCLG Digital

The blog of the digital and data teams in MHCLG

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Doesn’t sound particularly passive to me 😂

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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New job role at GDS: Deputy Director for Digital Standards and Inclusive Design. Deadline end of 8th October. Public sector only... Come be my boss! If you're nice, and good. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

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Quick Check Needed

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Passed my last assessment before my apprenticeship portfolio gateway 🎉 Thank goodness!! The most stressful results day wondering if I’d need to rapidly rewrite my assignment… 😅

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Talk is done, and my brain is overstimulated and ready for some quiet 😅 Time for a quiet evening in my hotel with new Bake Off and Ted Lasso 📺

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thank you to everyone who came to our talk @sdingov.bsky.social today, and for the thoughtful questions! 🇺🇦 Now to relax and enjoy the rest of the conference 😊

A smiley selfie with my speaking partner Jo. We’re stood in front of a large screen that’s projecting the talk title: “Homes for Ukraine, Rapid Design in Crisis”

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thank you for coming to our talk! 💛

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I do love a corridor camp…

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ooh nice! I’ve never managed to get into the workshops before the doors closed, so I’ll try to be sharper this year 🏃🏻‍♀️

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Who’s going to be at SDinGov this week? 👋🏻

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Check out our lovely shiny openly-available GitHub repo 😍 It’s not always easy to work in the open, but it is worth it to ensure we’re contributing back to the knowledge pool that enabled us to do our work. Hopefully it helps another team on their journey 🚀 mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2026/09/18/m...

mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk

Moving Share Homes for Ukraine data’s code to open source

Share Homes for Ukraine data, our in-house system for managing Homes for Ukraine data turned one this week. In this blog post, we talk about how we recently open-sourced the code for the system and wh...

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just recorded a piece with radio 3 about the band, and our European title winning piece ‘West Wind’ by Oliver Waespi 🤩 my episode of ‘Brass Banding with Hannah Peel’ should be out early November! 🎶

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Wouldn’t rule it out, once the banders have had a few beers 😅

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Good evening Birmingham! Delighted to be here ☀️ Tomorrow we attempt to take the British Open title at your beautiful concert hall! 🎺 🥁

A smiley selfie with sunglasses on, in front of Birmingham central library

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I spoke last week about the importance of shouting about your own work, else nobody will find you! The Civil service awards are open for nominations. We’re writing an entry. If you’re in CS, why don’t you have a go too? 😄 www.civilserviceawards.com

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Civil Service Awards - Civil Service Awards

Planning for the 2026 Civil Service Awards is now underway, and we’re excited to be refreshing our award categories. To stay informed about programme updates, entry information, and important deadline...

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

6th university assignment is in 🙌🏻 Final project and portfolio submission still to come. I massively underestimated how much work this apprenticeship would be 😅 nevertheless I’m so glad I signed up, as I’m learning loads!!

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yes please, more of this content please 😻

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Next up: Edinburgh! I’ll be at all three days of SDinGov, and really looking forward to corridor camping once our talk is out of the way 😄

A poster for our talk at SDinGov conference on 23 September. I’m speaking with my colleague Jo Frances from Made Tech on the topic “Homes for Ukraine: rapid design in crisis”

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Lovely job for this morning - writing an awards nomination for one of my team 🥰

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Darn it, missed a trick there…

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Should I buy this t shirt? 😆

A black t shirt with white writing on it that says ‘that wasn’t very data-driven of you’

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Doubly exciting day - I found out that I passed my latest uni assignment 🥳 I wrote it in a 4 day blur when I was on a cocktail of antibiotics in July, and I knew it wasn’t my best work but I was determined to submit something, so a pass is a huge win!

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Thanks for the opportunity 💚

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Thank you @jukes.ie @debblanch44.bsky.social and @visitmy.website for another terrific day! Lovely to meet lots of new people, and hear about brilliant work happening across the sector 🤗

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Amazed/terrified to hear we’ve been assigned the BIG room at SDinGov 😅

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Who’s coming to Product for the People on Thursday? 👀 So excited to see people after being in a bubble for a while!

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Spring was incredible but frenetic. Summer was a blur of sickness and sadness. Here’s hoping for a lighter, quieter autumn 🧡

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Another bonus of blogging: being able to reference my own and my colleagues‘ work when writing uni assignments 🤩 #WorkInTheOpen

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I can’t wait to meet everyone, and hear the other speakers!

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Talk is written 🥳 see y’all next Thursday!

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Temporarily lost my sparkle while I navigate a painful break up, but it’ll be back soon ✨ How do younger people cope with all these big feelings though. It’s hard enough now, with a fully developed frontal cortex…

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This is why we have marching drums… get em up in the organ loft or in the aisles. Plenty of space 😁

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Yessss!! Reckon they could add a few more though, you can never have enough 🥁

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Whoever those lucky civil servants are who get the secondments into mayoral authorities, I hope they have the subtle balance of enough self-confidence to drive the roles forward, tempered with enough humility to recognise the skills and expertise that already exist locally. No superheroes, please.

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Talk writing for Product for the People is going well 😅

A photo of one of my slides. One of the penguins from the Madagascar movies is having an existential crisis

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Another great morning sharing our work with colleagues from other gov departments 🙌🏻 We don’t expect anyone to carbon copy what we do, but if we can help accelerate their progress then we will try to do so! Relatedly, we’ve recently made our web app repo public 👀 Hopefully blog post coming soon!

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

All the stress is worth it for stories like these 💛💙 I’m proud to play a small part in helping people like Dmytro find a safe haven in the UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Ukrainian refugee wins place to study music at Oxford University

Nineteen-year-old Dmytro has been accepted to study music at Oxford, four years after coming to the UK.

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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My incredibly clever sibling (and inspiration for much of my working in the open/blogging 🥰) wrote a superb blog post about bug tracking - check it out!!

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