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

Oct 12, 2021 — TIL: Embedded Fields in Structs for Go — Here is a quick “Today I learned” about how to mimic inheritance in Go. For example, in Python if we have a class, we can easily inherit attributes and functions from it for some subclass. Here is a parent class... Read more