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Ella Fitzsimmons

@fitzsimple.bsky.social
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Making tech stories real ✨ ex-GDS, now in LA

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Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I’ve had three likes on Bluesky in half a day, which is pretty much viral for this platform #engagement
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Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I’ve been vibe-coding my personal website and I’m drunk on my powers
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Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
When they give journos access to the CMS
“A genius writes”
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Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“To be entirely clear: most AI problems that fail, do so because there was no service design involved, rather than because the AI wasn’t good enough.” From puntofisso.net/blog/posts/t...
puntofisso.net
15 things I have learned launching AI projects - Part 2
What does AI adoption means in practice Part 1 was a preamble based on framing AI in the context of building solutions. Here, we get a bit more practical detail.
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Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Services are big this year sequoiacap.com/article/serv...
sequoiacap.com
Services: The New Software
The next $1T company will be a software company masquerading as a services firm.
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Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
One of the arguments I’ve been looking for www.frank.computer/blog/2026/03...
frank.computer
On genAI: Was prototyping really a bottleneck?
I keep hearing folks claim that the fact we can ‘prototype’ so quickly now is a good thing (thanks to modern genAI). But what if the slow parts about prototyping are actually what makes it worth doing...
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Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
A practical application of the ”ethical tech” debates we’ve seen in the UK public sector: a single log of all the communications you’ve received from the government about your case
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Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
”Hanging tight” but not hopeful
The waiting list for the waiting list for the LA Olympic ticket draw
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Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Echoes, here, of why so much LLM writing is hollow www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/asses...
timeshighereducation.com
Assessment needs to grow up: what process and imperfection mean for higher education
Rather than railing against AI, educators could see this moment as an overdue correction and redesign assessment around what matters: the process by which humans think, revise and learn
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Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I’ve been asking designers-who-can code to write a post about this forever. This will save me a lot of gentle ”the Figma map is not the product territory” explaining gavinelliott.co.uk/blog/why-i-b...
gavinelliott.co.uk
Why I believe prototyping in code beats everything else
A code prototype changes everything. When you prototype in code, the thing you are testing is real. It works in the browser. It works on any device. It responds to real-world variables.
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Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
For my fellow privacy and security nerds www.abetterinternet.org/post/humandi...
abetterinternet.org
Researching the Human Digital Identity Space
Today we are announcing an effort that will allow ISRG to learn about systems for human digital identity. We're partnering with the SIROS Foundation for this exploration, and our work has been generou...
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Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
V good ia.net/topics/maker...
ia.net
Maker’s Knowledge
We only know what we made ourselves, or: Why we want to know how things are made.
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Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Enjoyed this lg.substack.com/p/the-death-...
lg.substack.com
The Death of Product Development as We Know it
Goodbye three-legged stool, 2-pizza teams, and "managers"
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Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Didn’t know about Express Mode for travel cards etc on iPhones, seems a useful thing: support.apple.com/en-us/105123
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Use Express Mode with transit cards, passes, and keys in Apple Wallet - Apple Support
Set up Express Mode to use cards, passes, and keys with just a tap.
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Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Thought this was delightful futureobjects.xyz
futureobjects.xyz
Objects from the future
Objects from the Future is a tool for encouraging creative thinking about the future, adapted from imagination card game, The Thing from the Future.
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Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
“Everyone wants to do the model work, nobody wants to do the data work.” Well, here’s @franticpedantic.bsky.social (with h/t to @kdutia.bsky.social) talking about the data work www.climatepolicyradar.org/latest/mappi...
climatepolicyradar.org
Mapping climate policy: navigating context-specific language (Part I) — Climate Policy Radar
In our latest blog, Anne Sietsma unpacks the mapping tool CPR developed to show how climate terminology differs across the globe.
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Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Great book, great hat by @markhurrell.bsky.social
A smiling Ella wearing a hat with the text ”Michael Tolliver Lives!”, which is the title of an excellent book by Armistead Maupin
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Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
”Betas whisper, launches shout”
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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 23/11/2024
Question for digital government people c 2015. Did you see these at the time? What worked / didn't work about them (conceptually, not graphically)
government as a platform stack diagram (register, trust & consent, common platforms, services)The same diagram from the perspective of a single service (fishing licence) showing who is in charge of each bit
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