Category Archives: Life

Working for the government

My soon-to-be-colleague, Gareth, reminded me via props that I haven’t mentioned that I’m switching jobs. From Monday, I’m going to work for the government! Having been impressed with alphagov earlier this year, I was more than happy to get onboard when the offer came up to work on the next phase of the project with [...]

The Moon-on-a-Stick ToDo Wishlist

I rhetorically asked on Twitter yesterday if there was a better way to manage my todo lists of scraps of paper, my moleskine, jira and basecamp.  I’m not sure that I made it clear: I’m not looking for a replacement for those. They’re not going away. I need a master-something that can manage the fact [...]

Leaving the BBC, joining Nature Publishing Group

It’s true – I am leaving the BBC! As of June 2nd, I’ll be a front-end developer at Nature. The last three years at the BBC have been good ones. I think the quality of the output and massive range of products that have come out of the development teams has just been amazing. It [...]