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March 2022 (11 posts)
Huzzah! @higgidy have finally replaced the plastic trays for their quiches with cardboard ones. Now all that’s left is that damn plastic window…
Am reminded of Jon Stewart’s view that the conflict is not left versus right but corruption versus not-corruption; ‘contrarian narcissists who trade as “free-thinkers”’ sit firmly in the first camp.
Lovely bumping into @yandle earlier. Compared notes on working in government, and reminisced about ‘that trip’ to New York in 2013.
Submit social housing lettings and sales logs (CORE): Alpha
An as yet unnamed hermit crab.
Proof, if it were needed, that Google ruins everything. 🤢
GOV.UK crown from the side, X-GOVUK crown from above
The X-GOVUK organisation on GitHub needed a logo.
In thinking about how I could represent the organisation’s unofficial relationship to GDS, I realised that the logo for GOV.UK, when viewed from above, would display the shape of a cross. Perfect.
2 weeks banging my head against a wall trying to get something to work, but getting nowhere.
10 minutes explaining the problem to @roobottom this morning, and have now figured out the correct solution.
It’s good to talk.
Posting photos from @tryglass to my own website using @microdotblog’s iOS app works seemlessly. Still, would rather cut out the middleman and syndicate directly to my website from Glass using the Micropub API.
Opening 2000.
Given it’s #ServicesWeek, here’s the presentation I gave last year about using a design history to document your work.