steve
@visitmy
workplace bez. doing product & strategy bits thru . more about me at
following last weekend’s sweltering 10k throughout the streets of london, we managed to raise £1,020 for people experiencing homelessness. massive thank-you to everyone who donated!
channelled my inner @dasbarrett.bsky.social to make this french ’boule’ (i baked it in a le creuset dish)
i am really enjoying getting ebooks from the library, especially because there is a wait. at the weekend this book was going to be available in two days’ time. that changed to two weeks on monday. today it’s a four-week wait. sweet anticipation.
in the year 2000, my parents bought me a copy of ‘music’, a digital audio workstation for the playstation. turns out the developers and publishers released the sample pack for free on the internet archive! sampled some pads (and programmed a new beat).
comes preloaded with some projects so that you can have a play. think they’ve cleverly applied samples pitched to specific notes on some buttons, so you can play a scale without knowing anything about music. (i am in great need of that!)
Heard this post is doing the rounds, being shared on a few Slack/Teams channels in gov depts. So for those that don’t know: boringmagi.cc/2026/04/02/r...
anyway, here’s a jammy, unfiltered tavel rosé from le carré du palais which has a very good prix fixe
looks like they confused a list ordered by opinion with one ordered by fact, oops
6.27% of appointments (PSCs and LLP members) verified between 2025-11-18 and 2025-12-31. Assuming linear growth, they’ll hit ~53% by 2026-11-18, which is when they want 100% of appointments verified.
Great day mapping the value stream with the product managers. A few parts of this map didn’t exist two years ago. Had a cracking time bringing things into existence with these folk. (Yes, we had to move rooms halfway through.)
Planning Inspectorate’s guidelines on using AI in casework evidence (www.gov.uk/guidance/use...) updated to include notes for members of professional bodies. Making the assumption that that was influenced by my blog post on building AI for professionals (visitmy.website/2025/04/07/s...).
bbc should do a documentary ‘20 years later: the whale in the thames’ and find out the longlasting impact on everyone who saw it that day. is shameen still living her life? does louise ever think about the whale on lunch breaks? news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4632...