Nov 21, 2021 — Spack Package Action (with oras) — This last week was Supercomputing 21, and I participated in the Spack BOF, where “BOF” means “Birds of a Feather.” I guess dinosaurs are birds, or bird-ish? Feathers? Anyway, if you are looking for things that I talked about, they... Read more

Nov 13, 2021 — Post Label Container — I had a simple need recently. I wanted to install a bunch of software in a container, discover information or metadata, and then label the container with it. I also wanted to build it across a few architectures. Okay, that... Read more

Oct 20, 2021 — Automatic Jekyll Navigation — One thing I’m quite lazy about is wanting to update navigation. There are several approaches I’ve taken in the past to handle this, the most labor intensive being maintaining several (possibly related) navigation menus via YAML files or directly in... Read more

Oct 14, 2021 — Levels of a Research Software Engineering Group — Today we celebrate the first International RSE Day, and I attended the US-RSE events. It was a lovely little conference because it was mixed with presentations followed by discussion, and these kinds of discussion are both interesting and can help... Read more