Tony Yates

Aviation

Checklists aren't just for pilots

Here is a list of some of the checklists I have created recently and use often:

Stranded - Shimano Di2 will only shift up or down

I am writing this post to help anyone who may need it if their Shimano Ultegra or Durace Shimano Di2 derailleur will only shift in one direction and need to fix it to get home. This hack will not work with Shimano 105 Di2 shifters as they do not have

Week 13 2024

Working on Well Architected Services, working on different time zones and falling off a JetSki

Tech

It's quite the challenge being the IT guy for a local church

Fixing the church IT setup - revitalising an old machine, making networking as simple as possible and monitoring arp tables to solve some hard to find issues.

Weeknotes

Week 12 2024

A return to publishing my week notes. Lots of travel, workshops, grumblings about EPS. Hoping for my plane to be fixed this week.

Thoughts On

Writing to my Children

Note taking is the nearest thing we have to time travel

Saying goodbye to my Grandad

Last night my grandad passed away, here are a few memories I am grateful for.

Maker

The Emergency Pack

Without further ado, let me share what is the Emergency Pack and how I use it

User Manual for Me

This is mainly for my teams and direct reports to understand how we will work together. Feedback I like it quick, if you spot something and think I handled it wrong or could improve please let me know. If you need extra support from me, please reach out, don’t

Thoughts On

Green Screen Terminals

I often think about green screen terminals, they were prolific in hospitals in the 90's. I have collected some thoughts I have about terminals with respect to clinicians and admin teams, which are what I describe as users

Career

Interoperability Saves Lives

This article was originally published at Interoperability Saves Lives (vix.digital) [https://vix.digital/case-studies/interoperability-saves-lives/] in 2019. It has been migrated here as VIX Digital will be shutting down after the acquisition by KRY [https://kry.se]/Livi [https://livi.co.uk]. -- Last weekend we attended UK Health

Thoughts On

Thoughts on sources of truth

When I hear the words 'single source of truth' I often pause and think for a moment to understand the context of the sentence. Here are my thoughts on what it means to me using the healthcare domain.

A day out at Barton

Manchester Barton airfield is a lovely place. It has a great vibe to it, a play area for the kids and plenty of inbound, outbound flights to keep any aviator happy. The café is lovely too. Looking forward to landing here myself in the future, probably my first grass landing.

Thoughts On

Thoughts on Delight

My thoughts on the word 'delight' and what it means for users

SARDism Podcast

I recently did a podcast with the lovely folks at SARD JV. It was a lot of fun going down memory lane talking about what got me into technology, my work on 111, NHS.UK, flying planes, checklists, snooker and all other kinds of ramblings. You can listen on the

Tech

Overclocking my PC for more performance

That's a 24% increase in performance and I can totally tell. It's snappy and I can really feel the difference across everything I do on this machine.

Atomic Essays

NHS Patient Demographics Service

It's the canonical source of truth for your national health identity data.

Productivity

Be more like the flower

How to actually become a 10x engineer/person

Week 43 Notes

I have been on vacation this week and spent my time with my family in Anglesey  getting soaked, lots of outdoors fun, warm clothes, fireside food and drinks kind of week. Loved it and feeling refreshed. I didn't spend much time near a computer at all so a short update.

Weeknotes

Week 42 Notes

Hiring, Distributed Ways of Working, Creating a Vision, Wardley Mapping, Personality Tests and Aviation

Weeknotes

Week 41 Notes

Babies, Aviation, Medical, Monte Carlo Simulations and Clapping for NHS Digital

Weeknotes

Weeknotes S01E07

Week 7 was a short week as I took some time off for my eldest son's birthday. In turn my Weeknotes are also short and mainly about identity. What did I work on? * Identity - it seems like it's a lighthouse topic that comes around every so often to shine

Weeknotes

Weeknotes S01E05

What did I work on? * I worked with the team to define some architecture for shipping logs from a range of heterogenous systems and services into a data repository with low latency. Logfiles & Event Streams → Logstash → Redis → Logstash → Cloudwatch is the crooks of it and got a basic version of

Weeknotes

Weeknotes S01E04

* I reached out to the NHS Digital IM1 team regarding PFS  (Patient Facing Services) and Immunisation, particularly vaccination status visibility from the GP Patient Record. A digital passport may be key to getting back to some normality or mass gatherings. This is now visible in the NHS App and will

Tech

Find your NHS number service shows how to fix interoperability

This week NHS Digital launched the Find your NHS Number service. It is fantastic and I am delighted to see it exist, but not for the reasons you might initially think - it showed the way to a better, more Interoperable NHS.