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  2. Weeknotes

    Weeknotes for the week finishing Friday, 23 January 2026.

    My weeknotes for this week are shorter than usual. I try to start writing them on Tuesday or Wednesday, but it’s Friday afternoon and I’m just starting.

    This week, I:

    • was an incident coordinator
    • learned even more about BNF …
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  3. Weeknotes

    Weeknotes for the week finishing Friday, 16 January 2026.

    This week, I:

    • went to Oxford for the OpenPrescribing kick-off meeting
    • wrote two ADRs (Architectural Decision Records)
    • learned more about DuckDB
    • learned more about BNF codes
    • wrote issues
    • caught a cold

    ADRs

    I want to write a little about ADRs, because …

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  4. Weeknotes

    Weeknotes for the week finishing Friday, 9 January 2026.

    This week, I was occupied by setting up the new team. We’re working on OpenPrescribing, but as there’s already a group of people who are associated with OpenPrescribing,1 and as that group of people refer to themselves as …

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  5. Weeknotes

    Weeknotes for the week finishing Friday, 2 January 2026.

    After another hiatus, weeknotes are back. A lot has happened in the last six months. Nevertheless, these are weeknotes. What happened this week?

    I’ve been reading about prescribing data, BNF codes, and dm+d codes in preparation for starting work …

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  8. The victory of form over content

    You’re a junior academic at a British university. You know it’s important to publish your research in high-impact journals. You’re already the first author on several papers. But you’re worried: you need more. And the journals aren’t high-impact enough.

    Someone from the university’s Department …

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