Tom Loosemore
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Tom Loosemore
@tomski.com
Partner at Public Digital, co-founder Government Digital Service, ex-BBC. Expect occasional small boat sailing.
yup. in the foxhunters.
January 11, 2026 at 9:01 AM
We nodded along, paid it some money, and it buggered off. Standard for Abergavenny, right?
January 10, 2026 at 4:16 PM
thank you! standard for South Wales. I guess.
January 10, 2026 at 4:05 PM
(You're not going to get a significant shift to remote treatment until you break away from funding flows are entirely geographic in their logic.)
January 6, 2026 at 10:56 AM
You do get better results of you tweak some of the RAG settings in Anything LLM, but overall it's a pretty simple 100% GUI process.
January 5, 2026 at 7:18 PM
AnythingLLM document embedding is pretty seamless now. Takes a while to ingest the several hundreds word docs I threw at it, mind you!
January 5, 2026 at 5:27 PM
(I'm using Anything LLM with gemma3:27b and a domain-specific archive of several hundred small word docs)
January 5, 2026 at 5:24 PM
That's a lovely post, @daivaughan.uk Here's to 2026 being much better for you.
December 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
North Gate Jazz Co-Op
December 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
At least *NHS* Login has supported proxy users for years, even if it is overly crude and dependent on being registered with the same GP.
December 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
It's particularly tricky for health services, where delegation is rarely binary and is also highly likely to vary a lot over time. But TBF I think in general NHS folk seem to be better at recognising the importance of the problem.
December 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Yup. And in some cases you can get away with not making the whole thing self-service (where 'self' includes the delegated user) and bolting it on later. But for underpinning platforms like, ooh, i dunno, One Login, it's better to embed delegated authority at the core of the service design.
December 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
(Delegated authority is how someone without full capacity can be supported by others to access the service they need)
December 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Or alternatively you can sign up via Direct Debit, then cancel it immediately. Apparently.
December 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I'm with @dracos.co.uk It's unacceptable for a senior civic service leader to put the onus on you to explain 'codebase'. Software now lies at the heart of all public service delivery. The senior civil service seems to have decided it's ok for them to be left behind.
December 21, 2025 at 11:15 AM