Blogroll
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Decentralise: Redux
Like many Very Online people with ‘Likes computers’ as their main hobby, I’ve been moving away from the Big Tech services over the years.
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On this day in 1846
On this day in 1846, a wooden ship called the _Pestonjee Bomanjee_ left the coast of Kent headed for Van Diemen’s Land, a penal colony in Australasia.
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Patterns for collaborative blogging
Blogging still feels very single-player. So how might we encourage more collaboration in our blogging?
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Slow travel
The tools to live out your Kerouac-fuelled, vagrancy-by-design dreams are here.
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Searching for answers in data
Wouldn’t it be nice to use natural language to find answers to questions? Rather than trawling through heaps of datasets?
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Creative destruction
Redesigning my website has been on my to-do list since mid-2020, but I haven’t got around to doing it yet. But it’s not like I haven’t tried.
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Why I stopped writing weeknotes
Around 12 months ago I stopped writing weeknotes, which was weird because I’d been almost zealous about the practice. Here’s why I stopped, what I missed, and why I’m excited to get started again.
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The Nonce Age collapse
Form over function.
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How to setup Jekyll with Tailwind CSS
A fix to Marcin Doliwa’s tutorial on using Tailwind CSS with Jekyll.
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Reading List Picks of 2021
Things I read about product management, digital teams, startups, the Web, class and managing our emotions in 2021.
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A mantra for bad mental health days
Don’t read on if you’re having an existential crisis (just come back after it’s over).
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Web3 reading list for internet optimists
Web3 threatens a free, open internet, but I’m wondering if there’s a reading of the technology – away from the hype – that satisfies the optimist/purists.
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Let’s talk about product
I’m looking to start a product circle: a group of product managers who meet regularly to talk about what they’re working on, share ideas and resources, hold each other accountable to goals and set challenges, and generally help each other out.
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Why I’m hyped about working at Claimer
After three and a half years working at Government Digital Service, last week I started a new job at Claimer. Here’s why I’m hyped about working there.
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Let’s get naked
No CSS for one day. Just semantic HTML.
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2020: a year in review
A quick review of the year 2020.
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Reading List Picks of 2020
Things I read about product management and design, digital, the Web and QAnon, the future and UK dance music in 2020.
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Going dark
Stop talking, start listening.
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Many of the things people worry about are not really worth worrying about
Inspect the ordinary for shades of delight.
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Silly ideas
Over the years I've kept these silly ideas for apps and gadgets in a note on my phone...
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Google Search is the fast-food restaurant of knowledge
Most people don’t eat only at McDonald’s. So why feed our brains, our arguments, our faculties of reasoning, on a similar giant?
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Why I write weeknotes
Each weekend I spend around 2 hours writing about what I did in the ~38 hours I spent at work that week. Why? Good question.
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NaBloPoMo 2020
My blog posts from National Blog Posting Month 2020.
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This website is killing the planet
The web is full of bullshit and it's killing the planet. Time to commit to making my website more ecofriendly.
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Blogging and working in the open
This is a talk I gave to the GDS product management community in 2019. There’s lots of ways of working in the open, blogging is just one of them.
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Reading List Picks of 2019
Things I read about digital government, product management, design thinking, the Web and data in 2019.
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Revivalist aesthetic: musical discoveries from 2019
Tracks I discovered or loved in 2019. Jazz, soul, various beats and bass, harkening back to a golden era of going out.
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Jam London 2019
Notes I made during Jam London 2019, a product and design conference.
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Reading List Picks of 2018
Here's a bunch of articles and blog posts about product management, people, work and the World Wide Web that piqued my interest throughout 2018.
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This is how I work…give or take
Dan wanted to see how I work, so here‘s what I do, based on Jukesie’s rip-off of the Lifehacker How I Work series.