Feb 19, 2022 — Proposal Jekyll Template — Would it be possible to make some kind of collaborative proposals interface on GitHub pages? This last week I was helping to draft proposals, and as they moved from the “rough Google Doc” state to a “we really would like... Read more

Feb 15, 2022 — Interactive Development Containers — I’ve recently been interested in developer workflows. Aside from being a developer, I feel like the tooling for our community, and especially for HPC or hybrid environments, is lacking. As a simple example, let’s ask a basic question: How do... Read more

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