Alex Whitehead-Smith

Software engineer @GDSTeam with a marketing analytics background.
Watford FC fan.
Infrequent tweets about football, food and data privacy.
(he/him)

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

Urban Planning Opinion Progression https://t.co/a7rSMgpWNO

[Alex Whitehead-Smith @Alex9Smith]

@TfL Thanks, I've done that. How long should I expect to wait before I hear back?

[Alex Whitehead-Smith @Alex9Smith]

How do I make a complaint @TfL? This bus driver cut the corner right across me in the cycle lane yesterday. So dangerous and totally unnecessary - the road is plenty wide enough.

Number 425 eastbound on the A11 just before Bow Road stop M at about 17:20

[Alex Whitehead-Smith @Alex9Smith]

Also, how come this past of CS2 has no raised kerb or wands to protect cyclists from drivers doing this? It shouldn't be possible for a car or bus to even get into the cycle lane. @London_Cycling @TowerHamletsNow @NewhamLondon

[Troy Hunt @troyhunt]

This is great: having a security.txt file is now mandatory for Dutch government websites. They either need to apply this as a standard or provide a good justification for why they're not using it ("Apply of Explain") https://t.co/Q99eDiR1AW

[The Hornets' Nest @hornetsnestwfc]

Just one normal, stress-free day as a #WatfordFC fan, that's all I ask for 🙏🏻

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

This is the story of one of London’s most ancient rivers, how it was lost & became a ‘ghost river’, & the unique opportunity to resurrect it in our collective imaginations *&* bring it physically back to life. Let me tell you about the Back River; East Ham’s River Roding. 🧵

[Kieran Maguire @KieranMaguire]

Joan Laporta predicts European Super League will launch in next two years as the greed is good brigade cling into their ‘dream’

via @TheAthletic https://t.co/kiSRhh21MR

[Nathan @nathanchalky]

This International Men's Day, I'm in hospital. I have ended up here because I was overly cavalier about my health, as men often are. See your GP, get yourself tested for relevant conditions, and if you don't know what they are, find out! If you have a health condition, monitor!

[Alex Whitehead-Smith @Alex9Smith]

@vickytnz You too can fill in 30 pages of forms, frantically dig through old bills trying to find your postcode from 4 houses ago, and spend 6 months worrying you made a mistake while you're waiting to hear back!

[Alex Whitehead-Smith @Alex9Smith]

Not now Google #watfordfc

[Lionesses @Lionesses]

🏆 OUR ENGLAND. OUR CHAMPIONS. 🏆

[Alex Whitehead-Smith @Alex9Smith]

Of course, the excellent @edent wrote about 'quantifying' the audience in 2013:

https://t.co/6YiY36GV4x

[Terence Eden is on Mastodon @edent]

FFS!
I wrote about this sort of nonsense a decade ago.
See - https://t.co/8vDUYUTA6h

I didn't think anyone would be daft enough to actually implement it though!

[Alex Whitehead-Smith @Alex9Smith]

Ah yes, let's sell our health data to Man City so they can

*checks notes*

"measure ... emotional arousal"

I'm sure there's no way that data could be used for harm.

https://t.co/4SWegguOc4

[Alex Whitehead-Smith @Alex9Smith]

Please never do something like this @WatfordFC

[Alex Whitehead-Smith @Alex9Smith]

The team for me 👏👏

[The Hornets' Nest @hornetsnestwfc]

✅ Most goals conceded at home in one PL season
✅ First club to ever lose 11 consecutive home PL games
✅ First club to ever lose 15 consecutive games against one opponent
✅ Conceded the fastest goal in PL history
✅ Joint worst FA Cup Final defeat in history

#WatfordFC

[The Hornets' Nest @hornetsnestwfc]

✅ First club to ever lose 11 consecutive home Premier League games
✅ First club to ever lose 15 consecutive games against one opponent
✅ Conceded the fastest goal in Premier League history
✅ Joint worst FA Cup Final defeat in history

#WatfordFC, the team for me 🙃

[Alex Whitehead-Smith @Alex9Smith]

Plus of course it meets a user need that kept coming up in research!

[Alex Whitehead-Smith @Alex9Smith]

It looks like a small change on the page, but behind the scenes there's new logic for sending an email when a page is removed, a new type of subscription list and a way for people with an existing subscriptions account to merge that into the new https://t.co/KxUZVOHdCl Account

[Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz]

Nice to release a feature onto 158,000 pages of https://t.co/3ZnSwrsJ1F 😇