1. Weeknotes

    Weeknotes for the week finishing Friday, 8th November 2024.

    I wrote these on Monday, 11th November. I struggled to remember the previous week!

    The REX (Researcher EXperience) team started a new initiative: “Onboarding OpenCodelists”. Lucy and Mary asked us to split into two squads. One squad will focus on maintaining …

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  2. Weeknotes

    Weeknotes for the week finishing Friday, 1st November 2024.

    Annual leave!

    We went to on holiday. Some walking, some paddleboarding, some running.

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  3. Weeknotes

    Weeknotes for the week finishing Friday, 18th October 2024.

    I’m back after a two-week hiatus.

    Katie and I have reduced the frequency of our meetings, which I think has helped each of us focus on our other tasks. We’re now meeting on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings for …

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  5. Weeknotes

    Weeknotes for the week finishing Friday, 20th September 2024.

    This was my second full week as Katie’s buddy. We covered:

    • the Django shell (manage.py shell)
    • the database shell (manage.py dbshell)
    • displaying two shells in one window with Terminator
    • creating and saving models with managers and instances
    • environment …
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  6. Weeknotes

    Weeknotes for the week finishing Friday, 13th September 2024.

    This was my first full week as Katie’s buddy. We covered:

    • setting up a GPG key
    • the differences between a GPG key and an SSH key
    • signing commits
    • the pros and cons of HTTP and SSH for communicating with a …
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  8. Code Reuse in a Trusted Research Environment

    I gave a talk today at the NHS-R conference. It was called Code Reuse in a Trusted Research Environment: Reusable Actions in OpenSAFELY.

    Abstract

    OpenSAFELY is a secure, transparent, open-source software platform for analysis of electronic health records data. It can be deployed to create a Trusted Research Environment …

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