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workplace bez. doing product & strategy bits thru boringmagi.cc. more about me at visitmy.website/about

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Matthew Somerville @dracos.co.uk · 6h
Very excited to announce that I will be speaking at @ffconf.org in mid November, on 25 years (!) of the traintimes.org.uk concept. URLs, performance, millions of PWAs; why and how you can do a lot with not a lot. Perhaps see some of you there :) 2026.ffconf.org
2026.ffconf.org
“it makes me a bit sad how much faster devices have got yet our experiences have often got slower”
See Matthew Somerville speak at #FFConf
For people who still give a damn about the web and its community.
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steve @visitmy.website · 8h
Our next one is in Leeds, you beauties. Come along. luma.com/7s9dnegb
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Product for the People 10 · Luma
This is the 10th (!!) of our Product for the People events and we're coming to Leeds. An event for people interested in public service and product management…
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steve @visitmy.website · 12h
in croatia a few years ago, a girl’s inflatable flapped away in a wind. after a swim trying to catch it, much like this video, the girl and her father came back to shore. then the dad paid a local fisherman to rent his small boat with an outboard, and he gathered the inflatable back!
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steve @visitmy.website · 29/09/2026
“once while hanging a front gate, i realised i was missing a part and had to order a drill bit by click & collect”
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Katy Armstrong @katyarmstrong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨Entry level developer and delivery manager jobs in Manchester! mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2026/09/28/w...
mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk
We’re hiring in Manchester: build your career with us in software development or delivery management
Are you a junior professional looking for a career opportunity where you’ll be supported to learn, develop and progress fast? Join our digital teams as Junior Developer and Associate Delivery Manager ...
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steve @visitmy.website · 28/09/2026
We should call this ‘misautomation’, automating the wrong aspects of a process or towards the wrong outcomes.
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steve @visitmy.website · 28/09/2026
Been saying for two years that the best way to avoid inevitable spiralling AI costs is to use local and open models first. Corporate America is catching on, will the UK public sector? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Corporate America embraces cheaper ‘open’ AI models
US businesses far beyond Silicon Valley are adopting Chinese alternatives to OpenAI and Anthropic’s systems
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steve @visitmy.website · 25/09/2026
mountains!
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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 24/09/2026
Please excuse me while I scream into a cushion at the thought of ALL the articles I had to write on the "UK productivity puzzle" in the 2010s www.ft.com/content/c819...
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steve @visitmy.website · 24/09/2026
good morning from georgia
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steve @visitmy.website · 19/09/2026
first day in tbilisi: massive plate of pickles
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steve @visitmy.website · 19/09/2026
Not gonna lie, there have been a few really boring moments over the last few weeks. But also decent steps forward. Some times you just have to hold a space long enough to change it. #weeknotes visitmy.website/2026/09/19/t...
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The Iron Cage: Weeknotes S22E12
We’re making progress on the alpha, but it is slower than I have experienced anywhere else. Processes, processes, processes.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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steve @visitmy.website · 18/09/2026
i love vic berger
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steve @visitmy.website · 17/09/2026
there is no need for the a.i. hysteria in the news, it is simply a way to capture attention and get everyone to believe it’s the future. sure, it’s useful, but it‘s not cheap or without planetary cost. it’s statistics applied to words, not ‘intelligence’.
The very fact that we cannot distinguish between output from LLMs or humans—which is causing the “crisis” of writing, arts, and higher education—is evidence that we have basically captured language along its most essential axis. That does not mean that we have captured “intelligence” (we have not, and I’m not sure that that’s a coherent idea), and it doesn’t mean that we have captured what Feuerbach called the “species being” of the human; it just means that linguistic and mathematical structure get along, sharing a form located deeper than everyday cognition.
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steve @visitmy.website · 16/09/2026
why doesn’t the bbc say that the licence fee includes free tickets to live at the apollo, have i got news for you, and radio 4 recordings? quite good value when you consider that.
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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Wild how walking around thinking about the thing you are working on usually helps sort it out while sitting staring at it does not
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steve @visitmy.website · 12/09/2026
looking forward to a walk and camp on the south downs this weekend
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Nia Campbell @niacampbell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Here's the latest from the NHS Wales App team on exploring test result designs, and the things we learnt along the way. dhcw.nhs.wales/news/behind-...
dhcw.nhs.wales
Exploring how to improve test result designs in the NHS Wales App
Test results are available to many patients using the NHS Wales App. The ambition is to ensure all patients have access to this feature, and increase the range of results that can be accessed.
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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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steve @visitmy.website · 10/09/2026
I’m currently reading a book about the 1381 peasant revolt and the contemporary patriots were assembled for ‘the true commons’, not the leader’s personal matters.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/09/2026
Nation’s Smart Toilets Begin Counting Down theonion.com/nations-smart-toilets-…
Nation’s Smart Toilets Begin Counting Down
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steve @visitmy.website · 09/09/2026
i’m about 👌 this close to booking a membership in a co-working space, purely because it’s the jlb credit office from peep show (it’s also local and recently refurbished)
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peterkwells @peterkwells.com · 08/09/2026
A statistically significant amount of white smoke!
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Simon Morgan-Wilson @officeofwilson.com · 07/09/2026
Did a five minute lightning talk at last week's Product for the People. Had an hour spare today to type it up. Could've said more, could've said different but time, eh. (I went over...) Let me know your favourite examples of reused or new infrastructure! www.officeofwilson.com/product-for-...
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steve @visitmy.website · 05/09/2026
At the start of summer at a friend’s wedding, I met this bloke who said he was going to run 100 ultras in 100 days. Seemed mad so I donated to the cause. Today’s the final day! He’s doing it! Please donate if you can. givestar.io/gs/mission-i...
givestar.io
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steve @visitmy.website · 03/09/2026
Good things about running community events: - DIY culture is still alive, no matter how corporate the civil service becomes - You can have fun with friends showing imperfect work - Everyone is working in a less-than-ideal environment and has hacks to share
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steve @visitmy.website · 02/09/2026
the wet weather and cooler mornings fragrance the air with plants and leaves, and it’s making me excited to go running again. love autumn. love changeable weather.
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steve @visitmy.website · 02/09/2026
One of the nicest parts of the South Downs Way when you walk up this hill!
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steve @visitmy.website · 01/09/2026
we should do this more with software www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
theguardian.com
Emily Wilson to retranslate the Odyssey from scratch
Wilson, whose 2017 English translation of Homer’s epic poem inspired Christopher Nolan’s box office hit, is revisiting it after criticising the film adaptation
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steve @visitmy.website · 31/08/2026
returned a library ebook 9 days early where is my fifa peace prize?
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steve @visitmy.website · 29/08/2026
there’s a miller & carter and hotel chocolat in banbury that always gets our custom during a charge. wouldn’t say no to a pizza!
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steve @visitmy.website · 29/08/2026
going to a day festival with fun people but…it’s raining
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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Of course the more we extend the list of property attributes that are re-usable as #opendata in the UK, the weirder it looks that we don't also have #openaddresses i.e. the most widely recognised descriptor for each property
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steve @visitmy.website · 28/08/2026
Alternative skeet: “Fixing the plumbing takes yonks and costs loads. We’re experimenting with improving a thinner slice, in the hope it’ll give prevention services more control of how test results appear in the NHS App.”
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steve @visitmy.website · 28/08/2026
Healthcare information systems are a complex web, and data quality isn’t great. But we think we can improve the ‘health moment’ around test results anyway. This outlines our first experiment on the alpha, and it’s a technical one. design-history.prevention-services.nhs.uk/managing-my-...
design-history.prevention-services.nhs.uk
How might we give teams more control of a test result?
We’re using research and testing to reduce risk and learn what works. Our riskiest assumption is technical in nature but could enable improvements to the way users experience test results.
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steve @visitmy.website · 28/08/2026
please cross your fingers, for i am high bidder on a rare-ish 90s groovebox stuffed with delightful pads and drums. auction ends tonight!
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steve @visitmy.website · 28/08/2026
wow, what a statement www.ipo.gov.uk/accessibilit...
ipo.gov.uk
Intellectual Property Office - Accessibility
Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small files of information, known as cookies, on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone
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steve @visitmy.website · 27/08/2026
Who’s coming along next week?
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 26/08/2026
www.ft.com/content/5b47...
ft.com
Charting the trillion-dollar TAM wars
Anthropic’s $30tn total addressable market estimate is unbelievable because it’s meant to be
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steve @visitmy.website · 26/08/2026
As long as this doesn’t disrupt the standing capacity or wheelchair and bike spaces, I’m for it. These trains are so much nicer to travel on as a commuter, even when packed, compared to others. You can spread out and there’s plenty headroom.
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steve @visitmy.website · 25/08/2026
Back in 2015, still a nipper in my twenties, me and friends used to joke about my job. It was odd, in service of a ‘niche’ we weren’t aware of, and all about data which felt ephemeral. But it was interesting. And kooky. And to be honest I think it set me up for the sorts of things I work on now.
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steve @visitmy.website · 21/08/2026
Earlier in the week there was lots of talk on the radio about the dry grasses and yellow fields. Then I walked around my local park, which is a ‘country park’ – lots of trees, wild sections, with some maintenance focusing on habitats for insects, birds and small mammals. And it’s green.
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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 17/08/2026
build literally one reservoir during my entire lifetime you clowns
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Look at what reservoir capacity we used to add, and what we’ve added since the early 90s… From @hannahritchie.bsky.social’s excellent substack hannahritchie.substack.com/p/uk-reservo...
UK Reservoir Capacity Added, by Year
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steve @visitmy.website · 18/08/2026
This doesn’t look to be rules-based at all? www.gov.uk/government/p...
gov.uk
Creating a clear, rules-based planning system
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steve @visitmy.website · 17/08/2026
had 4 hours of joy playing this yesterday. strong recommend. bigwalk.game
bigwalk.game
Big Walk by House House
Hang out with your friends and explore a wide-open world full of challenges, puzzles, and discoveries. A cooperative online walker-talker from the creators of Untitled Goose Game. Big Walk is availabl...
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steve @visitmy.website · 15/08/2026
this evening i walked into one of the football bars where everyone assumes its full of racists and, not only were they not racist, i wasn’t either and we all bonded.
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steve @visitmy.website · 15/08/2026
since when has bcc sounds started removing radio shows after 30 days? turns out i’ve missed out on listening to a few shows i’ve bookmarked! what a fool
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South Downs National Park @southdownsnp.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Need some walking inspiration? Follow in Flora Twort's footsteps. Discover Petersfield, the town that inspired Flora Twort's remarkable artwork, and uncover the stories behind her life and work on this guided audio tour. 📸: Flora Twort Gallery - Petersfield Museum [1/2]
Saturday shopping at Petersfield Square - Flora Twort 1932.
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