Work Notes

Complex processes, a chat with @elsua and some rewarding viewing, listening and reading

Keeping the weeknote as bucket of stuff approach

A rare face-to-face meeting with colleagues this week to talk product strategy. Although I’m a big fan of not shuffling back and forth to an office each day (we’ve been fully-distributed since the pandemic), it was noticeable that conversation flowed better, and it was clearly easier for the meeting chair to push people to make decisions. Other highlights: a chunk of fiddling with the nuances of Power Automate controlling SharePoint access for external guest users

Revisiting a familiar format to reboot writing — technical debt, systems thinking and tool of the week

A second notebook test with some course notes on Linear Regression

This is a test of importing Jupyter notebooks directly as work notes using the Academic CLI print(1+1) 2

Development Containers work well with WSL2 and GitHub Codespaces, found problems from Windows

Passing objects from a third-party library between functions required a deep-dive into the internals.

Learning some core features of Datasette, using a small but interesting set of data from the DfE

Using System.Threading.Channels to build async console tools.