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tomsteinberg.bsky.social
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If you're working at a home office as you read this, and you have a thermometer / thermostat in the room - what is the current temperature? Asking as I shivver.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

In mourning for an expired debit card number. Farewell, old friend. Alas, it is time to learn a new three digital security code.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

A rare comment from me about civic tech - my old stomping ground. Forest Gregg's piece on departing DataMade contains some of the best articulations of the central strengths and weaknesses of that domain that I've read, and ends by pointing in a very constructive direction. Chapeau, Forest.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

A truly excellent example of explaining something very difficult, clearly, through a very good podcast - Ones&Tooze on economist Joan Robinson: foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/one...

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Hot chocolate and pivot tables

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

Microsoft Word just crashed on me and I actually lost some actual work! Having to work without using Google Docs is like returning to the 1990s.

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

Props to the designers at Miro - when you put down a set of identical sticky notes on your virtual desktop I note that the drop shadows are all fractionally different. I think this is to create a very subtle impression of reality, without going all the way there. Nice.

submitted 134 days ago • 0 comments

AI will truly have arrived when I drag a spreadsheet box to extend a set of cells containing dates or other numbers, and what it puts in the new cells is what I was actually expecting it to do. Then it will be the end times.

submitted 137 days ago • 0 comments

Fighting Microsoft Word bugs on my birthday. @jamestplunkett.bsky.social

submitted 162 days ago • 0 comments

I think Missions really are a lot more important than Visions. I think there's quite a lot of organisations that could happily succeed without a vision written down anywhere.

submitted 176 days ago • 0 comments

Delightful clunky translation on european ticket buying website: "We question your bank"

submitted 182 days ago • 0 comments

I have just cancelled my Zoom subscription. I think that's yet another way the pandemic is behind us.

submitted 182 days ago • 0 comments

If I have to manually edit the URL of your website to find the 'About' page, you've got comms problems.

submitted 183 days ago • 0 comments

If the government is going to force me to fill in an identical form every three months (to claim tax free childcare – www.gov.uk/sign-in-chil...), then I am going to write something to do it for me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez-V...

submitted 185 days ago • 1 comment

Loving this account!

submitted 196 days ago • 1 comment

A simple win for the unfussy type of government transparency tonight. Went into a restaurant, smelled something a bit wierd, checked it out on the Food Standards Agency website - bingo 1 out of 5 rating. Left prompty. Not rocket science but so valuable.

submitted 197 days ago • 0 comments

Does Bluesky have the ability to mute all posts that mention a keyword? I'd quite like to read less about Elon Musk please.

submitted 199 days ago • 1 comment

When using Google calendar to create an event with a Microsoft Teams video call in it, it takes 10-15s for Microsoft's Teams plugin to add the call link to the event. I think it's an intentional dark pattern, slowly and successfully driving me away from using my preferred calendar towards MS. Sad.

submitted 200 days ago • 0 comments