Because Reasons, or Just Because

Normally I try not to mix politics and my career, but I kind of have to weigh in on this one. To preface this discussion, I have received the COVID-19 vaccine, and generally have a pro-vaccine position. However, I am a naturally skeptical and questioning person, so I can understand why people may be hesitant, …

Is Research Software Likely to Remain a Tangled Mess?

No. I recently came across a post in the fortran-lang forum referring to a blog post that makes an assertion that research software is likely to remain a tangled mess. I have a sufficient amount to say that should hopefully refute such an assertion, and give us some hope for the future. One of the …

Communicating with Whom?

Most lay people and programmers early in their career begin with the assumption that we write code to communicate to the computer what we'd like it to do, and how. While this is partly true, it misses a much more important audience; people. And for much greater reason than humans must be able to maintain …

New Toys

This effectively a direct copy of my last Arch Install post, but with modifications for my new laptop. It's a System76 Darter Pro, and so it a has a few differences from the Lenovo Yoga 13 I had before. The following are the steps I took in order to get Arch installed and running with …

Triggered

My Home Assistant now controls my HVAC the way I want it to. I'm now super happy about how it works, but man is the code ugly. To start with, I bought a very basic, Z-Wave thermostat. It has no smarts of its own, but can be controlled via Z-Wave. This means my home automation …