My mum's mum hated conformity.
Faced with bureaucracy she was known to exclaim, "I'm not a number!"
She was my NaN.
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Leigh Dodds
@ldodds@mastodon.me.uk
mastodon 4.6.9CTO at EnergySparks (https://energysparks.uk) a UK charity helping schools be more energy efficient.
My background is in open data, data standards, infrastructure and sharing.
Ex. Director of Delivery at the Open Data Institute.
Proud dad of two kids. Likely posting about data, tech, energy, books, cooking, ttrpgs, comics and other nerdery.
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Been married 25 years today 🥳
We celebrated at the weekend with an evening visit to the Roman Baths (where we got married).
Had a glass of prosecco by the waters. 🥂
Cool project thst uses #Openstreetmap to generate Minecraft worlds for any real world location.
I've been belatedly watching Luther. Series 2, Episode 4 has them using an RSS feed to catch a serial murderer.
Adding this to my "RSS in the media list" which now has 2 entries. Story wise, RSS has so far been used to
- demand surrender of Superman
- catch serial killer
Tech to fix potholes, a brief incomplete history:
2025 (continued), ID cards
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/digital-id-cards-tony-blair-institute-b2832661.html
More:
Enjoy the least Tory government of the rest of your life, I guess.
Weapons, non spoiler review: wtaf
This is a great album. Electronica + classical piano 👍
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Need an actual toolbox with:
- a set of Oblique Strategies
- a Feeling & Thinking Checking Stick
- a Rubber Duck
- and a Hammer for when the others don't work
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Also send a job lot of Feeling & Thinking Checking Sticks round to Labour HQ
Remembered I have a blog so wrote up this example of "working in the open" from a non-digital project I've been watching (Japanese woodblock printmaking!).
Bonus reflection on automation, craft and perceived inefficiencies across roles.
https://blog.ldodds.com/2025/09/12/a-non-digital-service-example-of-working-in-the-open/
I have spent too long looking at these and thinking about the monsters waiting patiently in their behind the scenes areas.
Imagining a workplace comedy set in Doom focused on bored monsters dealing with the Slayer's bullshit. Calling it Monster Closet.
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Today, I will mostly be listening to this 10.5 hour progressive house set:
H/T to the FixTheNews.com newsletter for the link.
Palette swapped policies
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@tymwol not that I saw! There could have been PotholeDAO with incentives to fix the holes!
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@luis_in_brief@social.coop I don't have a list, but it's an interesting question!
If you split yr list into governance of the project vs governance of the infrastructure (creation, deployment, release, use), then you'd maybe add in:
- package management and distribution
- cloud/hosting services
- security auditing
...to the latter.
Also maybe interactions between major projects. E.g. Rails removing from TypeScript has implications for it as project in terms of its broader use?