Weeknotes: 2026-W33

10th August - 16th August Along with basically everyone, I watched the eclipse using the traditional "colander and a sheet of paper" method. I took a few horrific snaps with one of my cameras but, without a solar filter, they were rubbish. It was strange because it didn't feel like a sunset despite being basically at sunset. Instead of the usual smooth gradient of light loss, it felt "stepped" — like the amount of light clicked down as if multiple light-switches were flicked off one after the other. The silence of the birds was eerie. We brought in a new member of the team this week. Having picked up a project to build an interactive patient simulation tool for an upcoming Congress, we find ourselves in need of someone to do the actual development. I'm a little sad I don't get to do it but a new dev frees me up to work on a large-scale data analysis piece alongside the technical architecture of a medical education platform. In the big political news this week, Toad of Toad Hall went…