https://www.skette.co.uk/blog Notes from the work at Skette — payments, data pipelines, deployment, and how we build web software. en-GB Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.skette.co.uk/blog/england-has-no-carer-register https://www.skette.co.uk/blog/england-has-no-carer-register England is the only UK nation with no register of its care workforce. The gap is real — but the reason no one fills it is more interesting than the gap itself, and it isn't a technical problem. Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Evan Ritter care regulation product-strategy https://www.skette.co.uk/blog/built-from-lived-experience https://www.skette.co.uk/blog/built-from-lived-experience Finding a market gap is the standard startup advice. But the trade-offs that decide whether a product is any good are only visible from the inside — which is why the best ones start from lived experience, not a hole in a spreadsheet. Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Evan Ritter product-strategy startups founders https://www.skette.co.uk/blog/from-sofas-to-viewing-figures https://www.skette.co.uk/blog/from-sofas-to-viewing-figures How a panel of a few thousand homes — plus a lot of statistical machinery and an overnight scramble — becomes the morning's TV ratings, and where a data bureau fits in. Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Evan Ritter broadcasting audience-measurement statistics data-pipelines https://www.skette.co.uk/blog/fixed-width-files-at-scale https://www.skette.co.uk/blog/fixed-width-files-at-scale How to ingest hundreds of millions of rows into Postgres without setting fire to anything — streaming, COPY, encodings, and the gotchas in order. Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Evan Ritter postgres data-pipelines nodejs etl https://www.skette.co.uk/blog/your-ai-cant-go-where-your-data-cant https://www.skette.co.uk/blog/your-ai-cant-go-where-your-data-cant On local LLM inference as a compliance posture. Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Evan Ritter ai llm compliance infrastructure https://www.skette.co.uk/blog/watching-the-watchers https://www.skette.co.uk/blog/watching-the-watchers A Pi, a DVB-T HAT, and the surprising difficulty of knowing what's on television. Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Evan Ritter raspberry-pi broadcasting computer-vision https://www.skette.co.uk/blog/nuxt-4-azure-swa https://www.skette.co.uk/blog/nuxt-4-azure-swa A working setup for Nuxt 4 on Azure Static Web Apps, after a day spent fighting Nitro presets, Oryx builds, and the SWA GitHub Action's assumptions. Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Evan Ritter nuxt azure deployment