Feb 6, 2022 — A Community History — I recently gave a talk, “The Research Software Engineer Movement” for the EasyBuild users meeting, 2022. It seems like a fun story, but what you can’t see from watching the talk is that it took a lot of research. Specifically,... Read more

Jan 22, 2022 — Visualizing Code — Do you think that programming requires spatial memory? This author seems to think so, and I do not agree. I can’t speak for others, but I definitely don’t do any kind of spatial reasoning when I’m programming. Unless you are... Read more

Jan 14, 2022 — Clusters and Pam — Warning, this is a satire, and it's rated PG-13! It is based on Green Eggs and Ham and was written entirely for fun. Most phrases were chosen based on rhyming and not any kind of truth. 😉️ - Vanessasaurus I... Read more

Jan 12, 2022 — Tailwind Jekyll — Every year I fall in love with a new documentation theme. And there is usually open licensing, but the problem is that it’s trapped behind some npm or other “state of the art” rendering nonsense that I don’t want to... Read more