Last night just after midnight ET, me and my colleagues at 18F were told our office had been "deleted". All 90+ technologists are out of the civil service.

🦊 Friday was my last day working at 18F. It was a team of extraordinary people, but a few things happened that made me realize I had to leave. Everything happens so much these days, so I thought I’d write down for myself what happened, and how I made my decision: ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/leavin...

Moving on from 18F. — ethanmarcotte.com

I had a wonderful job, until I didn’t. This is about what happened—and what is happening.

ethanmarcotte.com

Want cheaper car insurance? Support lower urban speed limits. That's the lesson from Britain: www.theguardian.com/money/2025/j...

UK’s 20mph speed limits ‘are cutting car insurance costs’

Controversial safety policy has helped drive down premiums to 18-month low, says Confused.com

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(If you build a football stadium you have private security and you contribute to local govt for policing and you obey court orders to provide access to CCTV etc)

Dublin has reduced car capacity in its urban core, and got cars out of the way of buses on the main east-west bus axis. Buses are faster, more people are riding, businesses will be fine. www.rte.ie/news/dublin/...

Car use on Dublin quays plummets with new traffic plan

Private car use in Dublin city centre has dropped significantly and public transport journey times have reduced along the quays since the Dublin City Transport Plan came into force last month.

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Saw a ‘Design for Good’ conference advertised the other day - thought ‘Oh that looks interesting’. Then saw the main contributors where BP and Nestlé - 🧐🤨

Royal Mail are hiring a ‘Head of UX, SEO and Analytics’. The salary is £55k. You read that correct. Good luck to them 🤨

Get live updates on 'real' deals happening this Black Friday. All these deals are on products we've tested and consider to be genuinely good value! www.which.co.uk/news-live/bl... Don’t buy crap - buy sustainably!

Season 16, Episode 8 of Its Always Sunny — good advert for Service Design.

Do you ever get home from work and say to yourself – "God, I spoke an awful lot of shite today didn't I"

I know alt text posts are over done, so I’ve been sat on this one for a while. But even in 2023 I keep seeing the same mistakes being made, so I figured it can't do any harm to hit publish!
 So, here is my take on alt text if it's useful: www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/how-to-...

New blog post — Improving how we approach user research and experimentation across our product squads … medium.com/which-produc...