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I found a Benchmark. Harder to find than I thought it would be.
Tonight I watched Nye at the National Theatre, a play about the life (and death) of NHS founder, Aneurin Bevan. Beautiful and haunting, the very last scene completely broke me. Forget ten year plans; Nye had a vision, and he absolutely delivered on it.
Many years ago I read about Book Mountain, a curious pyramid-shaped library in Spijkenisse, the Netherlands. Today I finally stepped inside.
Good services are verbs.
Bad services are nouns.
AI services are whimsical, opaque or vAPId.
Now available in blue
As teams at GDS prepare to launch a refreshed brand for GOV.UK on 25 June, so the X-GOVUK community has been updating its projects in preparation for this go-live date.
Firebreak
Poster I created to mark Good Machine’s first firebreak week.
I’m not convinced that the designer of a $10,000 gold watch (now obsolete), who gets driven around in the back of a Bentley, and who spends his spare time in coffee shops ‘inventing the future’ with the likes of Sam Altman, is capable of designing products for the rest of us.
Happy M&S cyber incident update day for those who celebrate.
These are my drawings
Goodbye Dribbble.
Manage vaccinations in schools: HPV private beta
The mission patch for the HPV private beta features Mavis the polar bear watching the sun rise over the horizon, representing the launch of our new service into private beta.
Manage vaccinations in schools: Doubles private beta
The mission patch for the release supporting ‘doubles’ (co-administered MenACWY and Td/IPV vaccinations) features Mavis the polar bear meeting her double.
Hey Guy’s
Diffused (sunrise).
If everything is working correctly, this is the first post from my website syndicated to Bluesky via Indiekit. 🤞
Touched a nerve
I put a little care into something and sent it out into the world.
Just watched B. J. Novak’s directorial debut, Vengeance (2022) and oh boy, it’s a hoot. A hearty recommendation from me.
Bored of it
Please, make it stop.
If you’re wondering why you can’t find any pineapples in Brighton, thank Fatto a Mano, where for a limited time you can exchange a pineapple for their Bella Disgrazia pizza. Fortunately they also accept tinned chunks!
Blog questions challenge
Blogging about blogging.
Micro Social is to Micro.blog what Tweetie was to Twitter. Sometimes it takes a passionate and attentive third-party developer to design and build the best app for an open platform. Astounding work @gregmorris@micro.blog!
That loud groaning noise you can hear is the sound of a 1000 employees at Williams Racing being told they’ve now got to use Jira.
Watched the penultimate performance of Elektra in Brighton this afternoon, before it transfers to the West End. Dense dialogue compensates for the short running time and an abrupt ending, yet the play is undermined by needless and nonsensical gimmicks (effect pedals, a random blimp, ink guns). Larson gave a forceful performance though, and was an absolute pro dealing with a mid-performance interruption (a cup fell from an upper circle).
2024 in review
Before the new year gets into full swing, time to recap the year gone by.
2024 in numbers
Another year of counting things.
Bradshaw’s Guide: Three sections down, one to go
230 lines and branches, 89 railway companies, 966 towns and cities, 118 counties and regions. And counting.
Went to Lewes Depot this evening to watch a screening of Point Break (1991). Definitely one to file under ‘so bad it’s good’, with plenty of pithy one-liners to share for years to come.
Feeling quite proud of myself for getting my broken microwave repaired instead of mindlessly taking it to the dump and buying a new one. Only cost £45 to replace a blown capacitor.
Just received my first visual voicemail, 17 years after it was announced as a key feature of the first iPhone. 🤯
Prompted by their latest greenwashing campaign, only now twigged that Esso is the phonetic pronunciation of S.O. for Standard Oil. I prefer Jayesso, Just Stop Oil.