May 3, 2021 — Package Popularity — I got my second vaccine today and arrived home after the end of the work day, so I decided to treat myself to a little fun and finish up a small project I started over the weekend. It was a... Read more

Mar 31, 2021 — 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

Mar 31, 2021 — 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

Mar 14, 2021 — 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