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All neurodevelopmental disorders are social constructs. They were invented because we’re obsessed with assuming everyone can learn, develop and can be assessed identically, and that deviating from that so they might need some grace or tablets must mean the person is “taking advantage”.

I had to give a jumper to a visiting friend today who had packed for a warm place but hadn’t anticipated that my warm place house reflects heat so it’s cooler inside than outside without artificial cooling until it hits proper heat extremes.

My little UX insight for today: If your users are using your data to do further analysis, ensure you know which tools they are using. So much of my translation work is because developers do not know or understand how Excel, Power BI or pivot tables work.

if you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation

My petty style ick: Seeing e.g. instead of eg in (non US) writing. My less petty ick: DVD’s CD’s

If we can close down children's name records when they get adopted, or even change their assumed date of birth, we can close down other data. Yes, you can guess what this is about.

I ended this job just over *seven years ago* and this detail is just there for recall. This is infodump is inspired from an amazing thread by @danneidle.bsky.social I shared last night. Anyone that doubts that an outsider can't learn a domain has never properly tried to imo. I am always an outsider

Well this is just absolutely wonderfully explained and I used to manage software that *did this assessment*. Please fix social care funding.

So I have a bazillion blog drafts sitting about, so I promptly ignored them and wrote about professional judgement and feedback loops instead here: ashley.rolfmore.com/sometimes-yo...

Sometimes you just gotta make some noiseOh bloody hell not this again You might be lucky enough (and I do mean lucky) to hear some feedback like this: "well, X is awful, we can't use it at all" They may not say this, but it's what they a...ashley.rolfmore.com