— Reaching out for Roadmaps — Language is vibrant, varying, and viral. Without us being aware of it, vocabulary and style of writing can become common in different cultures, whether that culture be a domain of science on Twitter, an industry, or a family. There are... Read more
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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— Extract Gzip from an Archive in Python — Yo’ dawg, I heard you like archives, so I put some tar.gz in your tar so you can extract archives from your archives! This isn’t incredibly mindblowing, but I was tickled when I discovered today that I could untar a... Read more
— The Sarcastic, Colorful Quote Generator — Sometimes we just need to write ludicrous things inside of a box. In this case, we have a double box! It’s a text box inside of a linux container (box) and done via a command line tool called boxes. Wait,... Read more
— Building Singularity Containers on GitLab-CI — Today I’m happy to announce a Thanksgiving special treat for Singularity and GitLab users! The robots and I have listened to your requests for a GitLab CI template, and had a fun weekend exploring using GitLab for the first time.... Read more