— 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
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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— 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
— rtld-audit and LD_AUDIT — I recently had the desire to trace a process - the reason and context aren’t important, but my colleague pointed me at rtld-audit, which is (I quote) an “auditing API for the dynamic linker.” What this means in practice is... Read more
— Open Source Halloween — Now that we’ve officially entered Fall, I think it’s fair to be thinking about pumpkins, scary stories, and my favorite holiday… Halloween! Sure, I don’t go trick or treating anymore, and I definitely don’t eat any candy, but there is... Read more