iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

steve @visitmy.website · 29/09/2026

i don’t only build digital public services and infrastructure

The gate whose posts I changed and on which it was rehanged

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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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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 · 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 · 24/07/2026

getting the eurostar to lille for your birthday is a great shout, let me tell you

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steve @visitmy.website · 16/07/2026

following last weekend’s sweltering 10k throughout the streets of london, we managed to raise £1,020 for people experiencing homelessness. massive thank-you to everyone who donated!

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steve @visitmy.website · 11/07/2026

bit of a splurge saturday, went into soul jazz after and topped up the library

A compilation of ragga jungle and a Jackie Mittoo compilation

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steve @visitmy.website · 04/07/2026

channelled my inner @dasbarrett.bsky.social to make this french ’boule’ (i baked it in a le creuset dish)

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steve @visitmy.website · 19/06/2026

i beg your pardon? what on earth is one of those?

An invitation to an ‘Executive AI terrarium workshop'

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steve @visitmy.website · 02/06/2026

i am really enjoying getting ebooks from the library, especially because there is a wait. at the weekend this book was going to be available in two days’ time. that changed to two weeks on monday. today it’s a four-week wait. sweet anticipation.

A loan shelf in the Libby app showing two books: The Living Mountain and Emergent Strategy.

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steve @visitmy.website · 07/05/2026

in the year 2000, my parents bought me a copy of ‘music’, a digital audio workstation for the playstation. turns out the developers and publishers released the sample pack for free on the internet archive! sampled some pads (and programmed a new beat).

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steve @visitmy.website · 06/05/2026

re-recorded, pitched up, and first bit of fun had.

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steve @visitmy.website · 05/05/2026

comes preloaded with some projects so that you can have a play. think they’ve cleverly applied samples pitched to specific notes on some buttons, so you can play a scale without knowing anything about music. (i am in great need of that!)

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steve @visitmy.website · 17/04/2026

Heard this post is doing the rounds, being shared on a few Slack/Teams channels in gov depts. So for those that don’t know: boringmagi.cc/2026/04/02/r...

People are particularly prone when using off-the-shelf Al to produce insights without understanding the inherent risks. There are companies developing specialist Al tools who take care over accuracy, reliability and trustworthy outputs. But most enterprise LLMs, like Copilot, are generic - they can't guide you, and they don't let you configure many
settings. (In fact, Copilot's terms state it's provided for entertainment purposes only.)

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steve @visitmy.website · 15/04/2026

This was what I talked about.

No hype, no fluff. AI as normal technology.

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steve @visitmy.website · 09/04/2026

anyway, here’s a jammy, unfiltered tavel rosé from le carré du palais which has a very good prix fixe

A jammy, unfiltered Tavel rosé. It was bloody amazing!

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steve @visitmy.website · 08/04/2026

also it is a very cool pier

Light shines through red glass onto the pier boards.

A 1930s (maybe?) pier building called Perch on the Pier.

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steve @visitmy.website · 08/04/2026

went fishing off worthing pier with my dad yesterday, had a great day

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steve @visitmy.website · 18/03/2026

17 degrees? dangerous day to be a peroni hehehe

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steve @visitmy.website · 14/03/2026

looks like they confused a list ordered by opinion with one ordered by fact, oops

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steve @visitmy.website · 10/03/2026

6.27% of appointments (PSCs and LLP members) verified between 2025-11-18 and 2025-12-31. Assuming linear growth, they’ll hit ~53% by 2026-11-18, which is when they want 100% of appointments verified.

6.27% of appointments verified by 31 December 2025. Companies House identity verification statistics.

Data from https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/companies-house-management-information-identity-verification-statistics

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steve @visitmy.website · 05/03/2026

just another day in watopia

Franklin from GTA 5 sat alongside a motorcycle

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steve @visitmy.website · 01/03/2026

north london. what a concept!

Z1/2 long
Distance 25.72 km
Pace 5:16 /km
Time 2h15m

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steve @visitmy.website · 25/02/2026

Great day mapping the value stream with the product managers. A few parts of this map didn’t exist two years ago. Had a cracking time bringing things into existence with these folk. (Yes, we had to move rooms halfway through.)

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steve @visitmy.website · 23/02/2026

Planning Inspectorate’s guidelines on using AI in casework evidence (www.gov.uk/guidance/use...) updated to include notes for members of professional bodies. Making the assumption that that was influenced by my blog post on building AI for professionals (visitmy.website/2025/04/07/s...).

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steve @visitmy.website · 18/02/2026

bbc should do a documentary ‘20 years later: the whale in the thames’ and find out the longlasting impact on everyone who saw it that day. is shameen still living her life? does louise ever think about the whale on lunch breaks? news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4632...

"I then thought, 'You just live your life. You've got to come and see that whale'."

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steve @visitmy.website · 12/02/2026

joining standup in a blue duffle coat and red felt hat

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steve @visitmy.website · 08/02/2026

coincidentally, a relevant quote in amateurs:

A meme's transgression of the borders of stable meaning is the guarantee of its circulation.

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steve @visitmy.website · 07/02/2026

muddy trail half-marathon done, now i get to put my feet up and watch #ENGvWAL cymru am byth!

Maverick West Sussex Trail 2026
Distance 22.22 km
Elev Gain 436 m
Time 2h 7m

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steve @visitmy.website · 05/02/2026

“yeah, it’s mad, unitary authority 2 council hasn’t collected our bins in weeks” www.gov.uk/government/c...

Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council proposed 4 unitary councils. These would comprise the current areas of:

Unitary Authority 1: Newcastle-under-Lyme
Unitary Authority 2: Cannock Chase, South Staffordshire, and Stafford
Unitary Authority 3: Staffordshire Moorlands, and Stoke-on-Trent
Unitary Authority 4: East Staffordshire, Lichfield and Tamworth.

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steve @visitmy.website · 04/02/2026

Reminds me of the AI Skills Hub.

"The bourgeoisie ascending on both sides of the Atlantic was a class made of ink and newsprint. Aristocracies across Europe were small; they could be bound by common culture and marriages. The bourgeoisie was large, heterogenous, and not able to form kin connections at scale; they required the “many replications” of print to cohere a class identity. Why then would the bourgeoisie allow, much less encourage, their subordinates to also be literate? Because they needed literate and numerate labor from some and hoped to rule others with a Gramscian hegemony transmitted by literacy." (The Baffler Magazine, We Used to Read Things in This Country)

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steve @visitmy.website · 31/01/2026

Many ways to interpret this, one of which is ‘It does’

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steve @visitmy.website · 23/01/2026

time to check out and head home from nyc. we did a house swap instead of using airbnb or booking a hotel, saved a shed load. livekindred.com?invite_code=...

Kindred
£396.50 for 7 nights

Average rental
£1,189.50+ for 7 nights

My Kindred invite code MAL.RIC

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steve @visitmy.website · 20/01/2026

ran over brooklyn bridge and manhattan bridge (with a chilly -7°C wind) and now i have to listen to beastie boys all day

Two people running across Brooklyn Bridge

View of Manhattan financial district from the Manhattan bridge.

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steve @visitmy.website · 20/01/2026

caught the john wilson exhibition at the metropolitan museum of art yesterday, on martin luther king day. made the current moment ever more prescient.

John Wilson’s drawing of Martin Luther King Jr.

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steve @visitmy.website · 19/01/2026

if anyone has or is developing a cold, my delivery manager recommended this stuff and it does really help. one tea in the morning, one tea in the evening.

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steve @visitmy.website · 17/01/2026

did parkrun in brooklyn (and hilariously it’s full of brits)

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steve @visitmy.website · 17/01/2026

What could the Service Manual do to encourage better collaboration or new ways of working? And has the lack of a workforce strategy exposed gaps in the Standard and Manual? Riffing on prompts from Rainer Kattel:

With the founders gone, what should the Cabinet Office tell GDS to prioritise next: enforce harder, collaborate more, or professionalise/diffuse capability across departments?
You can read those as three different theories of change:
• Enforce harder: stability through standards and compliance; scale via mandates.
• Collaborate more: stability through trust and co-ownership; scale via coalition.
• Professionalise/diffuse: stability through embedded capability; scale via professions and routines.

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steve @visitmy.website · 14/01/2026

great places to eat in new york? i’ve not been in over 10 years and was doing it on the cheap then, so looking forward to having something other than hot dogs and 7-11 pizzas. thanks in advance for recs!

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