If those services don’t trust me enough to give me an RSS feed, why should I trust them with my data?

Jeremy Keith — Battle for the planet of the APIs.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Maya Angelou

Remember what it is you’re trying to do when writing for a wide audience: communicate an idea clearly and accurately.

If a reader ends up confused, it’s not their failure as a reader but yours as a writer.

Alok Jha

Anything that can be connected to the Internet, will be.

Luke Wroblewski

Say hello to dev.wdcs.org.

Over the next fortnight, our team will be busy posting news and blog posts from the IWC, offering us a great opportunity to ensure that the structure, work-flow, and multilingual nature of the new site all work as we hope. And in what I think is a brave move by everyone here, we’re doing it in the public eye. If GDS can do it, well so can we (seriously, the GDS team has been, and continues to be, a massive inspiration).

It’s a bit shabby round the edges: the theme is bland and temporary but hopefully very readable, there are some bugs in the internationalisation framework that I’m still fixing (“Ray, when someone asks you if you want to build a multilingual site, you say ‘NO’!”), and you might find yourself in a bit of a navigation dead-end if you follow the wrong link.

As I said, it’s a bit shabby, but it’s our shabby.

If you’re interested in the background of what led us to this point and where we’re going in the future I gave a talk to the Oxford UX group a couple of months ago that fills in some of that.

Thanks to everyone at WDCS who’s been helping on this project. As a web geek you couldn’t ask for a more passionate and committed bunch to build for.

And now, some sleep.