I absolutely bloody love Haim, and they didn’t disappoint this evening.

Enjoyed drinks and a curry in Birmingham this evening alongside 6 familiar faces to celebrate an astonishing anniversary; 20 years ago this month, 4 web developers met in Walsall, and the Multipack was born. https://lloydyweb.paulrobertlloyd.com/blog/2005/10/the_we_in_web

The concourse at Euston station is now a festival of Rail Alphabet 2. Move beyond that… well, God knows what font has been chosen for the gantries above the approaches to platforms (which still use NR Brunel). One day there might be some visual coherence on the railway, but today is not that day.

Caught up with the Apple Event. Took me 30 minutes to realise I was watching last year’s event.

Probably the last post-work rays of sunlight for 2025.

The GOV.UK Eleventy Plugin is helping teams across central government focus on writing content instead of writing code. So I made a version for teams working in the NHS too. x-govuk.github.io/posts/nhsuk-...

Something I and many others in the NHS have spent months working on has just gone live, a big update to design system and frontend! 🎉

See service-manual.nhs.uk/design-syste... for the changes.

Not super glamorous work, but it helps improve the foundations for our digital services.

I found a Benchmark. Harder to find than I thought it would be. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWxX...

Tonight I watched Nye at the National Theatre, a play about the life (and death) of NHS founder, Aneurin Bevan. Beautiful and haunting, the very last scene completely broke me. Forget ten year plans; Nye had a vision, and he absolutely delivered on it.

Many years ago I read about Book Mountain, a curious pyramid-shaped library in Spijkenisse, the Netherlands. Today I finally stepped inside. https://www.dezeen.com/2012/10/04/book-mountain-library-pyramid-by-mvrdv/

Good services are verbs.
Bad services are nouns.
AI services are whimsical, opaque or vAPId. https://ai.gov.uk/projects/

I’m not convinced that the designer of a $10,000 gold watch (now obsolete), who gets driven around in the back of a Bentley, and who spends his spare time in coffee shops ‘inventing the future’ with the likes of Sam Altman, is capable of designing products for the rest of us.

Happy M&S cyber incident update day for those who celebrate.

Hey Guy‘s

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