— 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
Hi, I'm Vanessa, a Principal Computer Scientist.
Building schedulers, containers, and cloudy things, with a love for learning and new experiences. -- about me
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— 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
— 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
— 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