Be charmingly pushy

What happened when I joined the International Design in Government meetup | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

How to be a better radio interviewee

Things I learned by sitting next to someone who did it very well indeed | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

Your new stuff is better than your old stuff

Why "working in the open" is a great way of overcoming your own built-in editor brain | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

The value of your spoken words

How my training course helps you write like you speak | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

What's changed round here

A new CMS and some new CSS | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

Sometimes you need an editor more than you need a writer

Knowledge transfer is hard and time-consuming; so there are many circumstances where it makes more sense to hire an editor than to hire a copywriter | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

Photos and opinions and whatnot

Back once again in your RSS reader | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

Developer help wanted

I'm looking for professional help to make this website better. Can you help? Do you know someone who can? | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

Projects 66–94

It's that time of year, folks. Here's an overview of the mischief I've been making in 2022. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

Some great feeds

Here are five of my favourite RSS feeds, you should give them a look, yes you should. Cold out isn't it? | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

Our poor cat

A sad post about a sad end for a silly cat. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

How will your words exist in the world?

A quick tip for teams writing words: think about what the finished thing looks like, and how you expect readers to get their eyes on it. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

The beginning and the end of Twitter

An early adopter writes and whinges | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

Was not Was: What up, dog?

An indie kid in the late 80s finds his heart captured by glorious soulful pop music | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

iA Presenter connects your slides to the web

I've spent some time playing with iA Presenter and I like it a *lot* - particularly the way it exports HTML. The result: slides that can live on the internet, and work like web pages. Slides you can use in a browser, with the entire internet waiting for you in the adjacent tab. I … | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

The rich moron

What am I saying? I mean *one of* the rich morons. Also: iA Presenter invites, for them what wants 'em. (Do you even need one? Not sure.) | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

Sarum Lights 2022

Cathedrals as screens; places of worship as Instagram fodder. Maybe that's a bit too cynical. Anyway, an evening out with pretty lights. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

How Mastodon is different

Yet another explainer for the flummoxed | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

People are great

A weeknote in a quiet week | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

That's 1031 albums listened to

I set out to listen to 1001 albums; in the end it was 1031. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

Some ups and some downs

Just some stuff from this week, nothing special | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

Happy birthday book!

It's my book's birthday. There's a good picture with this one. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

A Swiss masterclass

I'm doing a thing for digital government types in Switzerland in November. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

There was a medical emergency

The week in ambulances and sheds | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

My plan for Parliament

Put a glass roof over most of Whitehall, natch. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

We went away

A weeknote that thinks it's a blog post; various things | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

What it's like working with an editor

It's not the power dynamic that your school days might have taught you to expect. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

The old bonds

What it's like when you see some of your oldest friends and you wish that it hadn't been so long | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

Playing with Polygon Camera

If you like triangles, you might playing with Polygon Camera too. Maybe even if you don't like triangles. But who doesn't like triangles? What sort of person is that? | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

A middle-aged man goes paddling

Includes paddling gif and non-emoji thumbs up | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 1 year ago

gilest.org: What using RSS feeds feels like

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@gilest.org | 2 years ago

How to Be Clear

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@gilest.org | 3 years ago

Nice little cards made out of bits of internet

There's a website called Tinkersynth, where you fiddle with unfathomable controls to make colours and patterns on a little screen-within-a-screen. | Continue reading


@gilest.org | 3 years ago