Monthly Shaarli

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November, 2024

Research Software Engineering with Python

Authored by Damien Irving, Kate Hertweck, Luke Johnston, Joel Ostblom, Charlotte Wickham, and Greg Wilson.

I learned a lot, and you should come back to it for more, especially the chapter on building CLI tools with Python.

All their advice is sound, except I do not agree that the MIT license should be recommended (which the authors argue based on the observation that "The last thirty years have shown that this restriction [of the GPL] isn’t necessary" which I cannot understand).

The book is a thorough walk-through that is sure to get most anyone up and running creating research software with Python and is beneficial to any researcher or research student curious about the Python programming language and the shell.

Dashboards

[I will add more dashboards here as I (re)-discover them].

Identify Unicode characters

Is there some tool(s) that can identify which Unicode character I am looking at? (Because it is not always possible to copy-paste...)

بسّام

Bassam is a free Arab social network that allows you to join the Fediverse and escape from the dictatorial and oppressive social platform.

It runs on Rebased which is a a Fediverse backend written in Elixir, compatible with the Mastodon API.

Motonormativity ("car brain")
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Our world is built up of roads and cars to get us to our destination! But what about cycling and even walking? Have we been brainwashed to think that the car is always king?

Via Krister Isaksson's blog, also see masto thread (both in Swedish).

Another good video on the subject by Shifter.