Weeknotes

Weeknotes for the week finishing Friday, 29th May 2026.

No weeknotes for last week or the week before, because I was taking annual leave.

This week, I:

• deployed OpenPathology. It’s a Streamlit app running on App Platform. Whilst deploying it wasn’t exactly easy, it was easier (and cheaper) than running it on a Droplet. Alice’s and my experience with Ethelred really helped; I’m glad we wrote detailed deployment docs.
• concluded that if we’re spending much less of our time writing code, because the agents are writing it for us, then we should be spending much more of our time learning about software engineering, so we can direct the agents more effectively. Hence, learning time is essential; not something to ask for in an annual review or to squeeze in, last thing on a Friday afternoon. Thanks for prompting me, Katie!

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Last week, I came across Nature’s Questioning by Thomas Hardy. The following caught my eye:

“Has some Vast Imbecility,
  Mighty to build and blend,
  But impotent to tend,
Framed us in jest, and left us now to hazardry?

Seems as though Hardy knew a thing or two about software engineering.¹