The Research Software Ecosystem — We recently published the Research Software Encyclopedia and also have added several new parsers for obtaining new data, meaning the total collection of curated research software is greater than 1500 entries. In honor of this collection, and of a library... Read more
—Hi, I'm VanessaSaurus, a Software Engineer.
Building tools, containers, and cloudy things, with a penchant for Python and parsnips. -- about me
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Open Source Contributions with CiteLang — I recently contributed to a project, and a maintainer pinged me apologizing that it didn’t show up in the Twitter preview for the changeset. The problem was that it showed him as the committer because it was cherry picked. Now... Read more
—Time Management — I’m continually fascinated by how people are always so busy. Oh my schedule is packed for the next two weeks, but in this hypothetical two weeks after that I’m sure it will be better! This is the thinking that I... Read more
—Jinja2: Have your string and filesystem loader too? — The other day I wanted to have my cake and eat it too! If you aren’t familiar with Jinja2 templates in Python, it’s a syntax for rendering texty things. For example, if I have some list of fruits in Python... Read more
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