There’s a long thread on Edugeek about pay and conditions for IT staff in UK education.

I quit edu work about 6 years ago and my current employer in the private sector pays much better but is also much more respectful of its staff than anything I’ve ever seen in UK edu.

We’re seeing more and more private data being stored by schools who need to know about students and parents. We’re seeing more attacks on IT infrastructure, and we’re seeing the people protecting the security and integrity of children’s education and privacy being undermined. This can’t go on.

Anyone ordered a Mac Mini yet? I’ve not got a use for one, but I’m intrigued. I can live with the power button being on the bottom.

@gruber@mastodon.social makes an interesting point about the Apple Mouse charge socket being on its bottom; you might not agree with Apple but these are design choices, not design mistakes.

👋 Not written anything about my techie noodling 👩‍💻👨‍💻💻in ages, but busy migrating to micro.blog from Wordpress.

it’s been interesting to say the least. The Wordpress implosion, which I’m not qualified to write about, got me thinking about the why, if and how of blogs in 2024. Micro.blog turned out to be very easy to migrate to, and has some neat features. So yeah. I should redirect my domain name soon so let’s see how that goes. I might then write about the migration process and why micro.blog.