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Standing on the shoulders of others
First, a disclaimer: this post is in no way to ingratiate myself with Iris. I'm pretty confident we are already friends. A few weeks ago, Iris posted about using GitHub integrations to make code reviews more awesome. I've been working...
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One Hour Upgrade - May 2017 edition
The stats 9 eager participants 16 stories added to the backlog 11 stories popular enough to be moved into To-do 7 stories started 2 team-ups this time round, both cross-disciplinary 0 Kinder Eggs What was started Dan and Suzanna looked...
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Caption my caption
I'm glad to say that my cohorts here in Digital are – like me – sticklers for style. Of course we all dress well, but punctuation, grammar, and spelling rules are what we work by. That's not to say...
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Game theory and the happy office: reflections from a new Content Producer.
Go back to Old Kent Road Think of board games and you probably shudder at the memory of your elder brother gleefully bankrupting you with his massed ranks of hotels from Regent Street to Mayfair. But they're not all like...
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How we learned to stop worrying and love the blog
In the Before time... There was a time, long ago, when the Digital team posted regularly on the blog. Looking back to February 2015, we published 13 posts that month. Among other things, we blogged about typesetting, Github, and using...
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A day in the life of a content editor
This is part of our 'Day in the Life' series for the different roles in the Digital team. If you've ever wondered what our team gets up to on an average day, or what it's like to work in a...
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I’m an actor who’s lost the plot
For the benefit of new colleagues who may, justifiably, have wondered why I was hired to work in a fast-moving digital environment, I’ll start this blog with an explanation. Bear with me, gentle reader, while I engage in a bit...
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Recording and making a photo story
I’ve recently had a chance to indulge in my favourite kind of work - telling stories. As an editor, I don’t get to do too much hands-on content creation, so when an opportunity does present itself, I jump on it....
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Making code reviews awesome with free GitHub integrations
Back in March, we made our editorial Slackbot open source. We mostly did this out of the goodness of our hearts, and because of a sincere desire to give back to the open-source community. But there was a slightly more selfish...
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One Hour Upgrade - April 2017 edition
Although flat-out with sprint work, the team managed to squeeze in a quick One Hour Upgrade before the Easter break. As it had been less than a month since the last upgrade, I was expecting fewer stories for consideration. As...
