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Ah, so we have had that here in Wales. Rhun has been all over social media and the news talking about the issues over the last day or two. And we’ve had huge fires causing disruption for 3 weeks now, with multiple critical incidents, and houses burnt.

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I think these messages are still used so infrequently, we’re a long way off that being a risk. Before today the only uses have been Red danger to life weather warnings. Arguably, this is the same sort of situation.

Given how many very serious fires there are around me & family at the moment, I’m disappointed they didn’t send this days earlier.

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Many people. If you live in a poor/no mobile signal area, like the rural area I’m in, you don’t get them.

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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Always good to know the emergency alerts have been sent. Of course, those of us who live in rural areas don’t get them because we have poor/no mobile signal.

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I always suspected a UK government would eventually reverse course on "coding in public". So I've been backing up all government code. For six years. Today I finally generated a report on what has been deleted. Its much worse than I realised. github.com/uk-gov-mirro...

Deleted UK Government code repositories

Total deleted repositories: 1526
Organisations affected: 56

See RECENTLY_DELETED.md for the most recently deleted repositories.

Organisation Deleted Repos % Deleted
hmrc 195 9.8%
nhsdigital 169 33.8%
SkillsFundingAgency 154 22.7%
informatics-lab 154 100.0%
UKHomeOffice 101 7.5%
ministryofjustice 74 2.8%
ONSdigital 66 4.3%
moj-analytical-services 65 75.6%
ukwa 47 46.1%
dwp 46 6.7%
UKGovernmentBEIS 43 27.4%

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Sometimes you come across good ones. We’ve got a great 11kwh charger at the local golf course. It’s cheap, reliable, electoverse compatible. But quite often most of them are drawing from a small single phase supply, and use cheap kit.

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I tend to find that rapid chargers are better maintained, and work better than some of the slower ones (even though they’re more expensive). 22kwh chargers are mostly ok. Below 22kwh, they’re really hit and miss.

And then sometimes the charger is just shit. Cable refused to release on a local authority a few months ago. Had to spend 30 mins on the phone waiting for someone to remotely reset the charger so cable could be released.

My car will “charge” at 11kwh on an AC charger (many of them) but can go upto 160kwh on a DC charger. In reality, that’s more normally 8/9kwh and 100kwh. Top rates only really achieved when battery is ~20-50%.

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Dafydd Vaughan @daivaughan.uk · 07/08/2026

The user interfaces on many public chargers are generally really bad. Particularly those that don’t have screens. I also take the advertised kW/h rate with a pinch of salt. It’s often shared across chargers, and is dependent on state of the battery/weather/temp etc.

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More than 24 hours into my journey home from an in-person work day in Liverpool. At least 2 more hours to go. Sometimes public transport is great. Sometimes it's absolute 💩. Power failure, displaced crew, train fault, points failure, damaged from a fire. All separate incidents, all in one journey.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 29/07/2026

This is absolutely the stuff of nightmares

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Dafydd Vaughan @daivaughan.uk · 26/07/2026

We are - although that’s currently debatable (we’re more than 24h into a low pressure/no water incident, with Dwr Cymru constantly pushing back the fix time).

Dafydd Vaughan @daivaughan.uk · 26/07/2026

I’d take your 1mm. We only got 0.4mm.

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There's a definite comparison with how Commercial Service is now an executive agency and trading fund and GDS just being PVAd onto the side of a few too many different departments.

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And here is the my earlier post on how we delivered the new car tax service in 12 weeks: bsky.app/profile/daiv...

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Modernising the vehicle logbook by delivering value early

If your roadmap says you won't deliver anything tangible to a user for 18 months, your strategy is broken. The organisation will run out of patience long before then. Here is the second story in my series on delivering change through momentum and trust: dafyddvaughan.uk/blog/2026/mo...

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By breaking the DVLA’s massive, 20-million-transaction paper logbook system into small slices - starting with commercial motor traders - we bypassed the paralysis of multi-year planning. Delivering va...

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At the DVLA, we faced a paper logbook system handling 20m transactions a year. Instead of a multi-year project, we isolated one thin slice: part-exchanges. Ruthlessly limiting our scope meant we could get something in front of real users quickly, and establish a constant flow of delivery.

Ann Kempster @annkempster.com · 17/07/2026

When organisations face a major transformation, the default instinct is to plan a massive, multi-year roadmap. But all-or-nothing plans multiply your risk and starve projects of their most critical currency: trust. If you want to succeed, you must break the problem down into small slices.

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Ann Kempster @annkempster.com · 27/06/2026

Busy Saturday. Rabble rousing with our neighbours over a big local planning issue at 9am. Then off to Abergavenny Pride. Walked in the parade, bought some badges, had a drink. Melted.

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Ann Kempster @annkempster.com · 06/06/2026

This past 48 hours has been horrific. Out of nowhere, Dilys’s back went again. This was her 4th or 5th round of IVDD. We’ve lost count by now. But this one was different, no warning. So much pain. And she wouldn’t or couldn’t let us help her. We’ve been at the vets 3 times since Thursday night

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Ann Kempster @annkempster.com · 21/05/2026

Full blown rage before 7.30 trying to report (another) water leak to Dŵr Cymru. That was FAR harder than it needed to be. (We’ve had next to no water for more than 24 hours from another leak. Now there is one at the end of the road that has already been “fixed” 3 times this year)

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Heledd Quaeck @helivans.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Learning to pronounce someone's name correctly is a fundamental matter of respect. But the recent reaction to our new First Minister, Rhun ap Iorwerth, shows how quickly that basic boundary breaks down when it comes to Welsh identity and language.

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Diolch @daivaughan.uk for writing this. The number of swimming certificates and many other such things that were spelt wrong. “can i call you Helen?” Amazing we now have a Heledd as MS! I may invite her up to “Heledd Fest* on Ynysoedd Heledd (Hebredies) one day *does not really exist (yet…)

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Welsh names and places deserve basic respect

These names are a core part of our everyday culture and national fabric - not a sideshow to laugh at. Expecting people to learn how to say a name or a place is a completely reasonable boundary, but joking about anglicising someone's identity is just disrespectful dafyddvaughan.uk/blog/2026/we...

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The recent mockery of First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth exposes a persistent, casual disrespect toward Welsh language and culture within the English-speaking world. This modern dismissal continues a his...

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Personally, I spent years shortening Dafydd to 'Dai' in my professional career to make things easier for people. We see the exact same resistance with the naming of our Senedd, and with historic names like Eryri and Bannau Brycheiniog

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This casual disrespect has deep roots. For generations, the British state actively suppressed the Welsh language and culture, most famously through the system of the Welsh Not in schools - where children faced physical punishment for speaking in Welsh.

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