Better, definitely
25.02.2026 22:56
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Better, definitely
Not sure about a whole blog post but, having just used the service I can report it’s much better and that the share code now lasts up to 21 days. Originally we had a lot of, ahem, discussions with security to allow a 48 hour expiry, and it’s been going up by increments over the last decade…
Irish Independent: Man stole three coffee machines in a week from Monaghan department store.
How does he sleep at night?
More than ten years since being involved with the creation and launch of DVLA’s share my driving licence service (www.gov.uk/view-driving...), I have finally been required to use it as part of a vehicle hiring service.
Remember: change takes time to cycle through cultural repos.
Benedict Evans’ column about the introduction of Excel not cutting any accountancy jobs lives rent free in my head every time someone says ‘I used copilot for this’ as though it’s equivalent to ‘I received a Nobel prize for this theorem’.
“Mastering writing hypotheses and measuring outcomes will be crucial. Furthermore embracing experimentation and remaining open to being proven wrong will be incredibly beneficial.”
Didn’t Kenneth Branagh make a good Quelch though?
Call centres as govt failure demand metric might have something to it.
So... I've created a starter pack of UK government organisations currently on Bluesky: go.bsky.app/JHsY1Wz
(Currently includes all those listed under ministerial and non-ministerial departments here www.gov.uk/government/o... - let me know any I've missed, or got wrong)
Can’t remember where I saw this, think it was in a gallery. I love it. boringmagi.cc/2026/01/09/h...
Not all the moomins in his valley…
It’s for this reason that I think Goodhart’s law usually has to be grouped with the Cobra effect (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pervers...). Getting better at finding some things may drive some unexpected behaviours.
“Suddenly, a heated exchange took place between the king and the moat contractor.” (The moat is being dug _inside_ the castle walls)
As a professional engineer who has spent a lot of time clarifying my customers’ requirements, I think of this often… perhaps too often…
Sunset on the Llyn peninsula, Wales
#home #photography #photo #hiraeth #coast
In my case, ‘your archaic use of GIFs as quasi ironic sub commentary revealed you to be 105 years old’.
"there's a new serif in town"
It’s hard not to think of this entire poem every time I read the news
MS teams just autocorrected ‘devops’ to ‘devils’. Not sure if that’s a mistake or deliberate at this point.
“If politics is to regain confidence and effectiveness, it must reclaim the space for thought.”
On the Red Bull/Racing Bulls driver news, Hadjar is best option in a long time. It’ll be a mentality test not a driving skill test for him.
But Lindblad? Not ready. I think there should be a Japanese driver in the second seat, but it should be newly crowned Super Formula champ Iwasa, not Tsunoda.
Pic of the ship gantries and Belfast against the sun, taken from Belfast airport.
‘I was born in Belfast between the mountain and the gantries’
No budget and no structure chart. Hmmm.
This feels relevant (if you didn’t see it when it was published)… heywoodquarterly.com/the-end-of-t...
Classy drive from Lando, classy dedication of the win to a classy Brazilian driver: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_de_...
Ah, the memories. Does HoHo still have the sodding lethal spiral stairs and the security folk who’ll rugby tackle you to the ground if you try and walk up them with a cup of tea? Took me months to find the back stairs that everyone else used.
Pencilled note next to practice times saying ‘the timekeepers confused Hanson’s Maserati with Dobson’s, which Martin was practicing with. Hence the speed!’
Bought a 2nd hand book about 1930s motor racing. Found pencilled amendments to the times for the first full Donington Grand Prix in 1937, so followed the inscription to find the previous owner: quite a life en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta...
Where are the public sector reformers? Can you help us find them?
At @kinship.works, we thought we'd try to map the different public sector reform 'tribes' & where to find them (orgs, events, networks/communities, online spaces, newsletters/publications/podcasts etc) - but we need your help!
‘At the end of the day, he ran back into the office and shouted, "PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA HOW CARS WORK, YOU GUYS."’
My experience is that the definition of private beta in the std allows a lot of room - it can be time limited, user number limited, etc. IMO, critical factor with (private and public) beta is that there’s an alternative to fail over to (online or offline) if something fails in scale up.
