ontologies

2025 - Week 30

Yeah, you’ve caught us out. Yeah, it’s been a while. About five weeks by our reckoning. Too long, say some. Not long enough, mutter others.

As ever, we have our excuses. Well, an excuse. Workload. We have a lot of work on and the load is proving a little too much. By way of exposition, we’re currently running at 36 open Trello boards. Most of which are fairly active. That’s more Trello boards than we have employees. Which must tell our dear reader something.

It means our days are spent flipping from application to application, code base to code base, meeting to meeting, never quite knowing where we are or where we’re going. It also means that nothing ever quite gets done. Well, plenty of things get done, but they’re all very small stitches in some tapestry we’re struggling to keep track of. Which makes weeknoting tricky.

Maybe we should bow to the inevitable and abandon the weeknotes format. It’s possible our dear reader would be more in the market for a dashboard of Trello board activity and git commits. We’re told Taylorism is back in fashion and everyone loves a data dashboard these days. Still, not us. Whilst data may be the tool of our trade, we are narrative creatures at heart. It’s just hard to tell a story when there’s a beginning, a lot of middle, and no bloody end in sight.

Cutting to the chase, it’s quite possible we’re over-committed here. A list of things we’re currently doing for those in doubt:

Outreach / engagement

Are you kidding? You think we have time to socialise with all this going on? Dear reader, we barely have time to brush our teeth, let alone practice our conversational gambits. Librarian Anya, at time of writing sunning herself in the south of France, being the exception to this rule. Well, she is the boss so plays by different rules.

Until next time.