Anna Goss
@annagoss.co
Running ff.studio, listening to Taylor Swift. Brighton / London.
accidentally bounced civilservicepensions.co.uk offline the other week. back now. haven't updated it since 2018 but hopefully someone somewhere still finds it useful. (not financial advice etc etc)
civilservicepensions.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
accidentally bounced civilservicepensions.co.uk offline the other week. back now. haven't updated it since 2018 but hopefully someone somewhere still finds it useful. (not financial advice etc etc)
best bit of the new Lily Allen record is her dropped Ts, 100% London energy
October 29, 2025 at 9:33 AM
best bit of the new Lily Allen record is her dropped Ts, 100% London energy
Not sure what Martin Keown has to do with all this
the establishment endorsing Zohran because they know he's going to win even if they don't like him is good, actually
October 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Not sure what Martin Keown has to do with all this
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wrote down some stuff about closing FF Studio, what I was proud of and what I'd do differently if I did it again notes.annagoss.co/closing-ff/
Designing a design studio
Anna Goss, service designer
notes.annagoss.co
October 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
wrote down some stuff about closing FF Studio, what I was proud of and what I'd do differently if I did it again notes.annagoss.co/closing-ff/
wrote down some stuff about closing FF Studio, what I was proud of and what I'd do differently if I did it again notes.annagoss.co/closing-ff/
Designing a design studio
Anna Goss, service designer
notes.annagoss.co
October 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
wrote down some stuff about closing FF Studio, what I was proud of and what I'd do differently if I did it again notes.annagoss.co/closing-ff/
there was, I am sure, a blog post recently about modular content on GOV.UK. it isn't this post by Markland in 2020. but I cannot find it. does anyone remember where this post was? gds.blog.gov.uk/2020/11/05/n...
New approaches to GOV.UK content
We’re looking at new content models and strategies to support the ways in which GOV.UK is developing to meet changing user needs. Here’s an overview of our thinking and the work we’ve done so far.
gds.blog.gov.uk
August 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
there was, I am sure, a blog post recently about modular content on GOV.UK. it isn't this post by Markland in 2020. but I cannot find it. does anyone remember where this post was? gds.blog.gov.uk/2020/11/05/n...
my dad's visiting and just got a phone call during which he gave whoever it was his email address. "at compuserve.com"
tell me you're an internet early adopter without telling me you're an internet early adopter, go on!
tell me you're an internet early adopter without telling me you're an internet early adopter, go on!
August 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
my dad's visiting and just got a phone call during which he gave whoever it was his email address. "at compuserve.com"
tell me you're an internet early adopter without telling me you're an internet early adopter, go on!
tell me you're an internet early adopter without telling me you're an internet early adopter, go on!
lovely work by @nickasbury.bsky.social - nearly a decade old but I only just came across it www.asburyandasbury.com/cambridge-un...
Cambridge University — Asbury & Asbury
www.asburyandasbury.com
August 6, 2025 at 11:17 AM
lovely work by @nickasbury.bsky.social - nearly a decade old but I only just came across it www.asburyandasbury.com/cambridge-un...
I got Claude Code to audit my Mac's folder / file structure (because it is a hot mess developed over 20 years). Turns out I hoard copies of Transport all over the place. You never know when you might need it!!
August 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I got Claude Code to audit my Mac's folder / file structure (because it is a hot mess developed over 20 years). Turns out I hoard copies of Transport all over the place. You never know when you might need it!!
I just really, really love my dog
July 31, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I just really, really love my dog
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Uncharacteristically professional post:
I'm looking for experienced, freelancing designers & researchers for a swath of FTC roles my team is trying to fill.
You'd be joining our Trusted Talent contracting network, with immediate roles in UX, Content, or Service design, and design research. 🧵 1/3
I'm looking for experienced, freelancing designers & researchers for a swath of FTC roles my team is trying to fill.
You'd be joining our Trusted Talent contracting network, with immediate roles in UX, Content, or Service design, and design research. 🧵 1/3
Associates - Nile
We work on some of the most significant design and research challenges around. We're proud to be able to call on specialist expertise when we need it.
nilehq.com
July 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Uncharacteristically professional post:
I'm looking for experienced, freelancing designers & researchers for a swath of FTC roles my team is trying to fill.
You'd be joining our Trusted Talent contracting network, with immediate roles in UX, Content, or Service design, and design research. 🧵 1/3
I'm looking for experienced, freelancing designers & researchers for a swath of FTC roles my team is trying to fill.
You'd be joining our Trusted Talent contracting network, with immediate roles in UX, Content, or Service design, and design research. 🧵 1/3
No one's coming, it's up to us (to remember to pay our taxes)
Disappointing LLMs can't do personal taxes yet. But not at all surprising. Too complex to do as a single shot task.
Prompt they used in the paper is ambitious: github.com/column-tax/t...
Pretty much a "here's my data, do the taxes" prompt with no access to tools, eval loops, or human checks
Prompt they used in the paper is ambitious: github.com/column-tax/t...
Pretty much a "here's my data, do the taxes" prompt with no access to tools, eval loops, or human checks
July 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
No one's coming, it's up to us (to remember to pay our taxes)
DING DING DING! I just remembered I've got to pay some tax to HMRC by 31 July. Have you also forgotten? Consider this a reminder!
July 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
DING DING DING! I just remembered I've got to pay some tax to HMRC by 31 July. Have you also forgotten? Consider this a reminder!
look dad we got two inbound links
I’m often asked for examples of good ‘working in the open’ - so I’ve made a list of some of my favourites, and I’ll do my best to keep it updated as I hear about new ones. It’s called “Doing open”
gilest.org/doingopen/
gilest.org/doingopen/
July 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
look dad we got two inbound links
felt left out of the vibe coding chat didn't I notes.annagoss.co/2025-07-18/
Expertise in the vibe-coding era
Anna Goss, service designer
notes.annagoss.co
July 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
felt left out of the vibe coding chat didn't I notes.annagoss.co/2025-07-18/
do you want to buy some office stuff? we're selling some office stuff.
buttondown.com/ff-studio/ar...
buttondown.com/ff-studio/ar...
Want to buy some office stuff?
Hello FF Studio subscribers. We've decided to move out of our studio space in Bermondsey. We're not using it enough at the moment and haven't been for a...
buttondown.com
July 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
do you want to buy some office stuff? we're selling some office stuff.
buttondown.com/ff-studio/ar...
buttondown.com/ff-studio/ar...
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£3,750 could get you several pedal cycles, two e-bikes or a cargo bike. Where’s the grant for them?
Motorists will be given up to £3,750 to switch to electric cars as ministers seek to boost demand to meet net zero targets.
Drivers buying new EVs with a list price of under £37,000 will be eligible for the discount
Drivers buying new EVs with a list price of under £37,000 will be eligible for the discount
Drivers to be given up to £3,750 to switch to electric cars
www.thetimes.com
July 15, 2025 at 7:10 AM
£3,750 could get you several pedal cycles, two e-bikes or a cargo bike. Where’s the grant for them?
is there a better book for very small children than Slinky Malinki? if so please let me know, if not I will just read Slinky seven times a day for the next three years (quite happily actually, but variety is nice innit)
June 26, 2025 at 9:41 AM
is there a better book for very small children than Slinky Malinki? if so please let me know, if not I will just read Slinky seven times a day for the next three years (quite happily actually, but variety is nice innit)
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As a case in point, a certain crowd-funding publisher that went bust recently owed nearly £360k to HMRC in PAYE it had withheld from peoples' payslips but hadn't actually, you know, paid across to HMRC - there are a *lot* of SMEs and this adds up, even disregarding the umbrella scams going round.
June 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
As a case in point, a certain crowd-funding publisher that went bust recently owed nearly £360k to HMRC in PAYE it had withheld from peoples' payslips but hadn't actually, you know, paid across to HMRC - there are a *lot* of SMEs and this adds up, even disregarding the umbrella scams going round.
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Kim Little is a European champion. My heart can’t cope.
May 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Kim Little is a European champion. My heart can’t cope.
Absolute cliche to be a govdesigner commenting on the childcare service but...well I have 100 things to say about payments, basically
May 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Absolute cliche to be a govdesigner commenting on the childcare service but...well I have 100 things to say about payments, basically
our poor pup is in dog hospital, it seems like she'll be fine but woweeeeeee the bill is currently one month's salary
perhaps, fellow pet owners, take this as a cue to increase your pet insurance cover!
perhaps, fellow pet owners, take this as a cue to increase your pet insurance cover!
May 23, 2025 at 12:06 PM
our poor pup is in dog hospital, it seems like she'll be fine but woweeeeeee the bill is currently one month's salary
perhaps, fellow pet owners, take this as a cue to increase your pet insurance cover!
perhaps, fellow pet owners, take this as a cue to increase your pet insurance cover!
quite fun to go back to the comments on early GDS blog posts.
"I presume this means merging everything to a single mega-site...this doesn't seem to me to be a very sensible thing to do at all."
"Well good luck with that. I hope you have some very good technical folk in amongst your web designers."
"I presume this means merging everything to a single mega-site...this doesn't seem to me to be a very sensible thing to do at all."
"Well good luck with that. I hope you have some very good technical folk in amongst your web designers."
Towards a Single Government Domain
<span class="excerpt_part">...so Chris Chant has commissioned a project to test its feasibility. Chris has asked <strong>Tom Loosemore</strong>, formerly of the BBC’s web operation, to pull together t...
gds.blog.gov.uk
May 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
quite fun to go back to the comments on early GDS blog posts.
"I presume this means merging everything to a single mega-site...this doesn't seem to me to be a very sensible thing to do at all."
"Well good luck with that. I hope you have some very good technical folk in amongst your web designers."
"I presume this means merging everything to a single mega-site...this doesn't seem to me to be a very sensible thing to do at all."
"Well good luck with that. I hope you have some very good technical folk in amongst your web designers."
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This is exactly what I mean when I say that it is impossible to reduce friction, only to move it around.
The text-making-up machine dropped the friction of "research" to zero, but every single person downstream of that "research" who has to act upon it now shoulders a double workload.
The text-making-up machine dropped the friction of "research" to zero, but every single person downstream of that "research" who has to act upon it now shoulders a double workload.
Librarian here. Got an email from a patron about our "poor selection" of books on AI, w/ list of new books that we HAD to get so ppl could stay informed about this important subject. Title, author, synopsis.
Of 11 titles on the list, 10 Did Not Exist. At all.
"Yeah, I got it from Ch*tGPT, why?"
Of 11 titles on the list, 10 Did Not Exist. At all.
"Yeah, I got it from Ch*tGPT, why?"
May 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This is exactly what I mean when I say that it is impossible to reduce friction, only to move it around.
The text-making-up machine dropped the friction of "research" to zero, but every single person downstream of that "research" who has to act upon it now shoulders a double workload.
The text-making-up machine dropped the friction of "research" to zero, but every single person downstream of that "research" who has to act upon it now shoulders a double workload.