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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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Large Uploads with Django+Nginx Upload Module Do you ever struggle with something, akin to a blueberry muffin that is slowly being squished in a 10 year old’s lunch box (and he’s gone out to recess and left it in the sun), but then figure it out... Read more

Dinosaur Data Science, Start with Counting This post has three parts. In the first I’ll talk about challenges in data science and rationale for an initiative I’ve started called the Dinosaur Datasets. Discussion of this initiative is the second part. In the third part I’ll walk... Read more

Building Singularity Containers on TravisCI It’s probably no surprise that you can build Singularity containers using continuous integration (CI). Actually, the main repository does testing with one service in particular, Travis CI, and you can always see the testing going on here. While Travis (and... Read more

Spam the Queue Today I had about 10,000 scripts I wanted to run on a SLURM cluster, and I also have an upper limit of jobs I’m allowed to run at once. I’m too lazy to wait and monitor the jobs, so I... Read more