Penguin — This is the tale of the wolf that wanted to be a penguin. Once upon a time there was a wolf, and he was told to chase after penguins. He wasn’t the greatest wolf, because he was terribly slow, but... 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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The Dinosaur Debugger — Have you ever worked on something really hard, maybe as a tag team effort, and it was an amazingly fulfilling experience? Why does that happen? Usually it’s pretty simple. It happens because you learn something, feel challenged, and sense that... Read more
—Windows Extraction with Singularity — Today one of my colleagues hit an infinite loop when a support technician required the extraction of (Linux) drivers from an .exe file. The conservation went something like this, and I have a feeling many administrators have “been here.” But... Read more
—The Scientific Filesystem Container Builder — In this post, I’m going to talk about the Scientific Filesystem Container Builder, a template for researchers to use to make it easy to distribute reproducible, tested research software. Yes, that means a workflow of: build --> test --> deploy... Read more
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