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Hi, I'm VanessaSaurus, a Software Engineer.
Building tools, containers, and cloudy things, with a penchant for Python and parsnips. -- about me

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Singularity Hub Archive As of 5:00pm today, April 26th 2021, the Singularity Hub cloud space, including storage of over 9TB of containers, a registry server and builders maintained by me (and literally only me) since 2016, is shut off. Before you worry, we’ve... Read more

Working in a National Lab vs. Academia Whether you are a graduate student thinking of your first job, or a veteran wondering about the grass on the other side, you might have asked the question: What’s it like to be a research software engineer in a national... Read more

My First Logic Program Today I decided I wanted to write my first logic program. What the heck is a logic program, or (more appropriately) Answer Set Programming (ASP)? Let’s dive in! What is Answer Set Programming? When you use a package manager, how... Read more

The Chonker Awards How chonky are your repositories and files on GitHub? I have almost 600 repositories at this point, and I was genuinely curious. Could I put together a quick interface to find the chonkiest of the chonks across my GitHub code?... Read more