Week 114: Pintxos to puddles
This time last week I was in San Sebastián, in T-shirt weather, where I paddled in the warm ocean and stayed out late pintxos-hopping the bars. On Tuesday I was back at work in London, where it was rainy, cold and grey. Consequently I was tired and a bit grumpy this week. My mood wasn’t helped by being blocked on a few work fronts, and with nothing to immediately focus on, my attention was scattered and I ended the week feeling unproductive. That’s ok. This work has highs and lows. Next week will be better.
Links this week:
- Getting all NHS appointments into the App: where we got to from Simon Morgan-Wilson summarises a discovery project
- Making We Tell Stories from Adrian Hon is a retrospective on a 2009 project that I remember fondly
- Crawlers, floods and fleets: a year of keeping our digital collections open from Wellcome Collection is a fascinating insight into what it means to keep museum websites running in 2026
- Native in a nutshell from the NHS App team gives an update (with a video demo) of the work to make the NHS App more native
- Raising and resolving issues from the Run breast screening in England (Rubie) team describes how they’re initially planning to let users flag data issues
- A pilot to support maternity vaccination uptake from the Record a vaccination (RAVS) team outlines their pilot to help staff better manage vaccinations for pregnant patients
Took my daughter to see Kiki’s Delivery Service in cinema today. I know I’m literally 39 years late to this, but it was very beautiful and we both enjoyed it.