@benilov

Working in digital government, formerly @gdsteam, @thoughtworks

 United Kingdom
blog.quickpeople.co.uk
Joined May 2008
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Replying to @JamesClear
@JamesClear your "the person who has the most fun wins" point reminded me of a great Paul McCartney quote I came across recently (jillianhess.substack.com/p/t…), about The Beatles' wild productivity:
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> People often say, ‘Oh, you work so hard,’ and I say, ‘We don’t work; we play.’ I try to keep that in the front of my brain when things are getting tiresome. ‘Jesus, we’ve worked too hard. No, we’ve played too hard.’
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A really nice write-up from the GOV.UK Pay team about how they performance-tested their new webhooks mechanism gds.blog.gov.uk/2023/07/11/p…
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kateobriendesigns.com/on-kat… (via the @ContentDesignLN newsletter)
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New favourite hobby: getting Chat GPT to rewrite long, confusing letters and make them shorter, more contextual and action-oriented, so that I have more confidence that I've understood them properly.
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Vicky Teinaki@vickytnz25 Mar 2023
Just sneaking in at the end of #servicesweek , my 2023 version of Service Assessment bingo vickyteinaki.com/blog/servic… - thanks @Anne_Tweetings @petembates @simoneverest @mr_stephenhill @tomskerous @DebBlanch44 for suggestions even if I couldn't fit them all in!
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From a DM, just in case anyone else needs to hear this.
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As a... – website visitor I want to... – visit the FAQ page so that... – I can read answers to a bunch of stupid questions that nobody has ever asked, littered with SEO keywords, that Barry from the marketing department insists is helping drive organic traffic
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@fofrAI1 Mar 2023
I've put together my first YouTube video, covering all the ControlNet models with examples of their outputs. All those models can be hard to get your head around. Hoping this will be useful for folks just starting. youtube.com/watch?v=GVCZHCLW…

How to use ControlNet models with Stable Diffusion

A guide to the models available with ControlNet, their pre-processo...

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Great step by step guide on how to create an accessible autocomplete by the amazing @alex_tea tpximpact.com/knowledge/blog…

How to work with the GOV.UK prototype kit - TPXimpact

A step by step guide for how to prototype an accessible autocomplete working with the GOV.UK design system and prototyping kit.

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Serves me right for choosing something other than "Mr" or "Mrs" when signing up for a new account...
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Props to the Apply for Teacher Training teams for improving how references work dfedigital.blog.gov.uk/2022/… This wouldn't have been possible 3 years ago 👀 but now it is – horray for digital transformation!

Overcoming different ways of working to improve a public service

People who apply for teaching training have found that getting 2 references before submitting an application, can be a real barrier. Here, Frankie Roberto and Myles Jarvis go into more detail about...

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What's it called when a product manager gets really excited after watching just one user research session?
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This is an classic example (from 2005) of policy and service delivery not being joined up. I love the total disbelief from Blair when he realises what’s really been happening #servicedesign
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@fofrAI23 Aug 2022
With #stablediffusion img2img, I can help bring my 4yr old’s sketches to life. Baby and daddy ice cream robot monsters having a fun day at the beach. 😍 #AiArtwork
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I've been reading a whole load of "10 things I've learned adding Dalle-generated images to my dev blog". I get it – folks are (IMHO rightfully) excited about the promise of text-to-image tools, and what they can potentially unlock, for the visually-inept, like myself.
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A slightly more generous take – I guess everyone's exploring what these wondrous tools can do and learning how to use them, and it's part of democratisation of creating things that look good.
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But I wonder how to get good at actually using text-to-image tools effectively, instead of generating surprising eye-candy, which will get boring fast when everyone starts doing it. (The answer is probably just "get lots of practice", isn't it?)
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