Rob McCarthy

@candiwrites There’s so much utter crap on this platform, but, nuggets of sense like this fill me with confidence that the world has not gone completely mad.

@SocialSoup @annkempster Can I hard agree on your hard agree @SocialSoup? Great post @annkempster. I sense there’s an emerging divide when doing digital stuff in government; dogmatic and frustrated user-centred and agile delivery, against “how do we get around doing the standard”. Both fuel each other.

I must also be a whingey old timer as so much resonates with me.

Amazing work from our brilliant teams! This is huge! 🤩🎉

@laura_yarrow Fantastic work. Great to see the GOV Design System being used for inward facing products and services. MoJ, DWP, HO and other departments have been doing this for years so it’s great to see some of their design system components being used in the Whitehall Publishing platform.

Always worth reflecting on what Mike has to say. Avoiding another Horizon — Public Digital public.digital/2024/01/12/avo…

@LucyWinder You’re brave!

Love Christmas me.

Design in 2004 Open Photoshop and lay out the pages based on the clients brief Design in 2014 Research>Personas>Site Map>Sketching>Wireframes>Prototype>Visual Design>Usability Testing Design in 2024 Open Figma and lay out the pages based on the PMs brief

@laura_yarrow Top 5% of Greggs eaters me. Not gonna lie, kinda proud of that.

Please can everyone stop copying Spotify by doing an end of year “wrapped”, I’ve had one for Monzo and Buffer today and none of it makes sense 😂 I don’t need to be told I’m in the top x% of Amazon shoppers, it’s meaningless…

@karlgoldstraw BOOM 💥 #micdrop

@NEFFHomeUK Thanks James but any tips on how to remove the lower part of the duct though? It was easy to clip it together, but it’s not as simple as following the manual backwards (I already thought of that).

Hi @NEFFHomeUK - Can you tell me how to remove the lower flue duct from an N70 Island cooker hood (I96BMP5N0B) please?

I just posted a tweet that made me feel very old #grownup

A guy on my loooong train to Edinburgh is 3 cans of beer down and we have 2 hours to go. I’m feeling both disgusted and jealous at his current approach to life. Obviously, jealousy is the main feeling.

@Amy_Hupe Sounds reminiscent of the halls I stayed in while at Uni.

@dunuphouses My whole carriage smelled of sick yesterday. And someone kept setting off the emergency alarm between Doncaster and Edi.

And the 6 hour train journey to Edinburgh for #DSDay23 has begun. Send me all the positive vibes for navigating the interesting *’travel challenges’ I’m likely to experience. *mashed potato on a seat is a new one for me @Amy_Hupe

@Amy_Hupe @GDSTeam Yes! #DSDay23

Who’s in Edinburgh for @GDSTeam’s #DSDay then?

6yo: (raises hand during math lesson) Me: (anticipating a math question) Yes? 6: I found a snail in my backyard yesterday and I named it Gary.

The likelihood that GenAI will let you be more productive/strategic is directly proportional to the extent you have already taken full advantage of existing & well-known technologies to improve productivity. Which is to say that for most companies, that number approaches zero.