Joe Lanman
@joelanman.com
Design Lead on data.gov.uk at the UK Government Digital Service Projects include Register to Vote, Petition Parliament, GovWifi and the GOV.UK Prototype Kit https://joelanman.com
whats are people's thoughts on CSS antialiasing rules these days? GOV.UK Frontend applies -webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased; -moz-osx-font-smoothing:grayscale; Maybe I'm just used to Frontend but the default rendering in Safari does look a bit blurry to me
An interesting bit of history at GOV.UK - to begin with content design was mostly about long form guidance. When we started designing services we found that there are some differences in how you approach content design for interfaces: www.gov.uk/service-manu...
Writing for user interfaces
Doing content design for user interfaces, including style, tone and how to write questions.
gov.uk
With Big Walk, the Untitled Goose Game team returns with a funny, exciting, and deeply rewarding multiplayer adventure that combines knockabout fun with some surprisingly big ideas - and takes the hangout game to a new peak. Our Big Walk review: www.eurogamer.net/big-walk-rev...
"Kew Gardens has had a weather station since 1871. This July was, based on third party analysis of Met Office data collected at the site, the first calendar month on record where no rainfall was measured at Kew."
London's first month without rain
Plus: There's nowhere to bury the dead • London wants to keep its money • When will it stop being so damn hot • Who is to blame for turning off the air conditioning in the tower block?
londoncentric.media
The UK is in the grip of a ‘firewave’, with fires affecting landscapes from the Cairngorms to the Suffolk coast. Nearly half of England is facing an ‘exceptionally serious’ drought.
Europe’s summer of fires: Burnham must centre climate adaptation in policies
The UK government should treat adaptation to the effects of climate change as a core organizing principle of both economic policy at home and foreign policy.
chathamhouse.org
need some diy help! My new integrated dishwasher is supposed to fit flush to the worktop. But that means the wooden door can't then have a lip over the edge of the inner metal door. If anything it has to come down a few mm so it's not quite covering it. That seems super weird?
need some diy help! My new integrated dishwasher is supposed to fit flush to the worktop. But that means the wooden door can't then have a lip over the edge of the inner metal door. If anything it has to come down a few mm so it's not quite covering it. That seems super weird?
maybe it is economically valuable to tackle the climate crisis
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4d ago‘Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops
In light of LinkedIn of all places adding 'report AI slop': AI police, arrest this man He talks in maths, he buzzes like a fridge He's like a detuned radio
Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?
We have a couple of new collection pages in the National Data Library: Legislation, and Public Transport Stations and Stops www.data.gov.uk/collections/... www.data.gov.uk/collections/...
Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.
Lena Headey: I could get more work if I went to lots of openings, but JOMO
Why is the media still ignoring that this man threw up a nazi salute in 2025? Why is the media still ignoring that this man consistently shares eugenicist, great replacement & other white supremacist theories & accounts on the social media site he owns? Whiteness always protects itself.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w agoAt one point she notes that AfD, the German political party that Musk supports, has "real neo-Nazis." Musk literally just shrugs.
Sobering to see in one chart how June temperature records have been broken this year in so many European countries www.ft.com/content/5f06...
Every single time I get a tradesperson they break a different thing. So frustrating
I really don't think it's helpful when people take fptp data and apply it to pr. Under a different voting system people vote differently www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
How could Britain look under proportional representation? See the results for your area
These visualisations from exclusive polling modelling show how the UK parliament could change under different voting systems
theguardian.com
"Ads plus AI is sort of uniquely unsettling to me" - Sam Altman ads.openai.com
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I don't think any government should be on the platform that allows and even promotes the kind of illegal content X does, personally
