Moon Monday #278: A master list of organized, linked articles covering ISRO’s Chandrayaan lunar program, mission by mission.
donkeys, herbs, romance novels
Government intent and service delivery don’t always connect early enough, and even when they do, alignment can waver during delivery.
At the Public Design Conference (part of World Design Congress Design Safari) in September 2025, policy and design teams from the UK and Canada joined forces to explore this common challenge.
_This post is part of a series aboutpublic design patterns. They…
On fatigue, a period of self-imposed isolation, overthinking the numbers, and of course, extremely good punk records.
New ones from Full Size, the Bug Club, Patois Counselors, and M.A.T.B. (FKA Miranda and the Beat), plus can’t-miss records from brand new bands.
The Tangle staff picks our favorite reader essays.
The brand new Portland band jammed together and quickly recorded one of the best punk demos of the year. They are not the death rock band they initially envisioned.
on obscure word origins, by which I mean where my child learns the things he knows, and, of course, romance novels
Read about new stuff from Alien Nosejob, Retail Simps, MK Ultras, Total Con, Smirk, Eye Ball, Timmy Vulgar, and more.
When public bodies design policies and services, they aren’t just creating new systems, things or transactions. They’re fundamentally shaping the interfaces and relationships between citizens and their government and determining whether or not government achieves its goals at community and national levels. A team of civil servants worked with design leaders around the UK, and internationally, to…
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In my teenage coding days around 2001, before I used version control systems, and for a long time, I spent a lot of time reading code just to somewhat memorize it and to know what happens where and when and how I got there.
This state of mind has a distinct feeling for me, or rather: an aftertaste, that I instantly remember when I stare at a codebase that past me left with tons of dirty…
Punk veterans Erin, Cissie, Katie, and Marat on making punk about the human body, returning with their first 7" since 2019, and the eternal balance between work and art.
my writing process—and also, happily, other people's romance novels
When international teams from Colombia, Canada, India, Peru, and the UK gathered for the Public Design Conference in September 2025, as part of the World Design Congress Design Safari, we found that we have common challenges.
‘ Declining public trust, obstacles to civic participation, and communities feeling unheard
From the outset, we agreed that we needed to move beyond consultation…
No Peeling, Answering Machines, Brendan Wells, Useless Eaters, Memo PST, IRKED, Fentanyl, Genre Is Death...this week is out of control. Happy May Day.
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The very first Swift Blog Carnival is a wrap. Six folks took the prompt of Tiny Languages and ran with it in directions I hadn’t anticipated – from task runners and result builders to symbolic math and German verb conjugation. Thanks to everyone who participated!
Here’s the roundup.
Matt Massicotte starts the month with an excursion into the Tiny Languages of Task Runners in the spirit…
Family trip prep is just packing for chaos and hoping for the best.
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Recently on a meetup, I was asked whether the age of manual note-taking and Zettelkasten is over now that LLM’s are everywhere and can produce so much text in such a short time that humans can’t outcompete them anymore.
Outcompeting a computer on producing text was never the goal, of course.
A Zettelkasten is a tool for thought. You use it to develop ideas and work on hard problems for…
The trio of Darby, TJ, and Justin mix political action with intense music. With the release of their first demo, they discuss Ypsilanti’s DIY past and future.
slaking my bloodlust with romance novels remains legal
A massive week featuring Optic Sink’s experimental film scores, the returns of Subtle Turnhips and Lightning Bolt, a loaded Billiam comp, and new Poo Poo Talks.
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I picked up a term that I have not used in all my years of programming, and I love it:
“Drift”.
As in “Specificaiton Drift”: you write the spec at time _T_ , implement at _T+1_ , learn something new about the problem domain in the process and adjust your implementation (you know, normal programming) at _T+2_ , then at _T+3_ the spec doesn’t reflect the reality of the code base anymore.
But…
At the end of each planning year, I always find myself asking the same question: what has actually changed?
Have we simply been busy? Or have we made real progress?
Looking back on 2025-26, I think we can say that this has been a year of real progress for the Policy Design Community.
A few years ago, policy design was still a relatively niche idea in government. There were talented people…
On growing up a collector and the deep psychological itch that’s scratched by creating, sorting, ranking, and envisioning a canon of your own.
on Zen Cho's novella The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo
Blurbs and a playlist covering stellar new punk records from Mexico City, Hiroshima, Melbourne, Berlin, and elsewhere.
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To kickstart the Swift Blog Carnival, I’ll pick a topic that is inoffensive (I hope!) and applies to the vast ecosystem of Swift programming: _Tiny Languages_.
Have you ever written your custom DSL using result builders? Have you ever parsed a scripting language of your own imagination? Do you use tiny languages for libraries or do you use DSL’s on the server to create weird markup or routing…
A massive week for Philadelphia, a surprise eight-song psycho 7” from Yambag, plus a barrel of wild hardcore records and much more.
As we mark Wikipedia’s 25th birthday and the 10th issue of our newsletter, we are sharing the latest public policy updates shaping the future of open knowledge and the digital commons.
At a time when questions about internet regulation, AI tools, and the sustainability of public interest platforms are becoming more urgent, these conversations deserve close attention.
Read the latest issue of…
Over the summer, a group of design and policy practitioners from around the world came together to share ideas, compare approaches, and spot patterns in how we work. The goal? To learn from each other and build something useful for the wider design and government community.
All the participants worked in “cross-gov” teams...units, labs, departments that work tangentially across a range of…
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