GP TechLead

The government and NHS have released their new Covid-19 app. After their disastrous trial on the Isle of Wight, it can be assumed that things have been ironed out enough to roll out for general release. It works via Apple's/Googles Covid-19 API which allows phones to handshake each other over Bluetooth. This API is only provided to healthcare authorities so other app developers aren't able to exploit it to make other apps. It takes the much talked about de-centralised approach to contact tracing, meaning that in theory, the app developer/government wont know which users have been in contact. Countries trying to do the centralised approach have been struggling as Apple refused to let app developers meddle with the Bluetooth settings so have had to adopt this de-centralised approach. Below is the rough blueprint of the two systems.

Flu season starting and people are calling up to try get them done. Normal winters, most people can't be bothered but with Covid as well floating around, people are desperate to get it (in fear that they'll be a shortage). Nursing home residents usually get top priority as just like any transmittable disease, it can spread like wild fire in an enclosed space like a home. It usually is a given that most residents will get it but one relative of a resident did not want his dad to have it.

I recently published my first Flutter app, and one of the hard parts as a newbie was signing and  creating the app bundle from Android studio. There is a good link here walking you through it but it didn't help with the details if you were having any issues. Here is my walkthrough on how to do create your app bundle and what to do if you had issues like me. This walkthrough is applicable to Windows. Once you're happy with your app and created a nice app icon, you're ready to sign it.  Copy and paste this command into the terminal, replacing USER_NAME with your particular username. This will create a key file. You do not need to store the key in that particular folder but just for ease of use and for finding it later. keytool -genkey -v -keystore c:\Users\USER_NAME\key.jks -storetype JKS -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000 -alias key   Now for me, when I input that command, it did not recognise keytool as a command. The way I fixed it was to download the new Java J

I had a young man come to see me face to face, he was worried about his testicles. He as worried they were too big. He hadn't noticed any changes recently, no previous medical issues. After examining his testicles, they were large but not abnormal. I asked what made him feel this way. It came out that at his work in the warehouse, there was a bit of a competition amongst his male colleagues. They had decided to see who had the biggest testicles and had decided to whip them out in the back office. My patient had been the winner but was left with undue anxiety of being the biggest testicles at work.