James Darling @abscond
Putting strings into databases, taking them out again, and helping deal with the consequences. Technical Director @dxw abscond.org Leyton, London Joined November 2006-
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On the idea of a Local Government Digital Service - this is good from @richardjpope back in 2020: "It’s not enough to design new services, we need to design new collaborative organisations and iterate them too." dxw.com/2020/02/creati… ht @abscond for pointing it out
On the idea of a Local Government Digital Service - this is good from @richardjpope back in 2020: "It’s not enough to design new services, we need to design new collaborative organisations and iterate them too." dxw.com/2020/02/creati… ht @abscond for pointing it out
tap tap. is this thing on? here's a yearnote if so. abscond.org/2024/01/05/yea…
It's free to attend, includes lunch and a creche. It's on Saturday 20 January 2024 near St Pauls, London. Register now via forms.gle/9pQb6yThR5q24q…. Here's the UKGovCamp2023 video to get you in the mood youtu.be/M1hD_Dyb8Zg. Please reply if you have questions. 2/2
MPVs are a part of my personal brand now. Here’s my review of my Ford Grand Tourneo Connect, a people mover/van/camper combo. abscond.org/2023/08/12/for…
I didn't have an Action Man or a Barbie as a child. I had this Cindy 4x4 because it had the most gadgets. Defying gender norms in the most normative way possible since the '90s. youtube.com/watch?v=MfB_57…
I’ll be in San Francisco and have no plans August 18-21. Who’s there now? Who should I catch up with, and who should I meet?
This pride month I'm thinking about how many great feminist intellects have been sexual eccentrics. Mary Wollestonecraft had a baby out of wedlock in the 1700s and multiple affairs including a "romantic friendship" with a woman, Fanny Blood, naming her first child after her.
Some of the things @dxw has done this year: Building digital services to provide services to people leaving prison, making life easier for those running our schools, and making the justice system more transparent. dxw.com/2022/12/2022-i…
"reuse", "open source", "working in the open" - these can mean so many very different things. I provide 4 different types, along with real-world examples.
In the public sector, too often I see the business case for working in the open made purely on future efficiency savings from potential direct re-use of the work. That mindset somehow both oversells and undersells the value of working in the open: dxw.com/2022/11/6-reas…
I must admit I assumed the @EmployeeOwned conference was going to be a bit dry, but I really enjoyed it. Turns out employee owned companies tend to be filled with lovely people to meet! @dmann_ldn has written up our experience here: dxw.com/2022/10/employ…
Come work with me at @dxw! The United Kingdom’s public- and third-sector institutions need modern, working software now more than ever to tackle the problems we are facing, and we are in increasing demand. dxw.com/2022/10/dxw-is…
I’m in Liverpool for the @EmployeeOwned conference. I am excited about Liverpool and employee ownership. Who should I meet?
2 months into being a director at @dxw and I'm seriously looking at tab management plugins for Chrome. My normal task management processes are breaking.
We are overjoyed to add @dxw to our list of sponsors for #SotB2022 #SotB10 2022.stateofthebrowser.com/sponsors/
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Should there be a Local Government Digital Service? A Friday share of this. Interested in thoughts! medium.com/@jamestplunket…
There's several interesting things about today's Ofcom report on Royal Mail and future of Universal Postal Service From a PAF (postcode address file) angle that Ofcom have, correctly, called out the structural changes in the postal delivery market but failed to join ...
@abscond Love it! I'd like to do BM #1, maybe next year. Glad DXW has gone well for you
@abscond It sounds like a good year. Nice to read what you've been up to! 👋
Lodging a complaint with IPSO unless @e_casalicchio publishes a correction that Michael Walker is also a beefcake.
@GasNovice Eurgh. Reminds me of @abscond's 2014 thoughts on the civil service and milk abscond.org/2014/09/25/cul…
Once got criticised by GDS assessor because we, horror 😱, got stakeholders to sketch out some ideas at end of disco. “But that’s alpha activity!” they wailed, as babies started crying and old ladies crossed the street to avoid us Helped us understand the problem better though
Has the time now come to phase out the traditional #ServiceStandard phases? dxw Senior Product Manager @simplybenuk shares his thoughts bit.ly/47mKsNJ
I'm more concerned about the Oxford → Westminster bag carrier → Public Affairs/CSR for Evil PLC → MP pipeline. There are plenty of young people from very different backgrounds who would add immeasurably to our politics. Labour once claimed to be interested in electing them.
It's revealing something quite ugly that so many dislike seeing young people in politics when there are such levels of intergenerational unfairness. We seem to think anyone under 30 should just shut their mouth and pay their rent.
Prince Charles laughing and joking with members of the boy-band Blazin Squad as he meets the stars performing at the annual Capital Radio Party in the Park, a pop concert held in Hyde Park to raise funds for his charity The Prince's Trust. (2003)
in many ways this was the absolute ideal night for Labour, one good result but also one bad result meaning that they can self-flagellate and endlessly whinge about each other for one thousand days, which they love doing
@SebastianEPayne “Westminster think tank scene” is genuinely very funny
@jonty @ianvisits The important thing to note here is you have clearly looked up the law with regards commuting by hovercraft. Just in case.
the only thing more discrediting than anarchists refusing to answer "who would maintain the sewers" is anarchists trying to answer "who would maintain the sewers"
The only things that really matter in the case of the BBC presenter are if they commissioned indecent images of an under-18 year old, or harassed/abused/coerced anyone into a sexual relationship. But consensual and lawful relationships shouldn't be the subject of a witch-hunt.
@abscond @matterbattle You should always take an opportunity to speak to @pahlkadot if you get a moment. If you fancy a coffee while you’re here let me know.
SF friends! Talk to James :)
I’ll be in San Francisco and have no plans August 18-21. Who’s there now? Who should I catch up with, and who should I meet?
I have just told my girlfriend, Kate Nash, that she must eat so many lemons cause she is so bitter. Now to sit back and relax, safe in the knowledge there's no way she could have a rhyming comeback to that.
Transphobia and plain mysoginy in a venn diagram are just a full fucking circle. Elliot Page transitioned 3 whole ass years ago and transphobes are still telling him to smile more. Get a fucking life.
Evening friends, my NHS contract is nearing its end so I will soon be looking for something new. If you, or anyone you know, needs someone to help with digital (preferably internal) operations/transformation/online community stuff let me know! 🙏🏻 ❤️ ✌️
one of the trickiest things with technology is how to explain that what is, today, a straightforward one-liner that you can find on google was - maybe only a year ago - an approach hard won with many dead ends and many weeks with a wet towel wrapped around your head