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• June 17, 2024
• in Opinionated
• 6 min read

🧩 Maintaining Code Quality with pre-commit

Some tips and tools to help keep research software reproducible, reliable and robust.

• November 6, 2020
• in RSW Engineering, Tooling
• 1 min read

⚙️ Awesome Engineering Blogs

The idea is that this list will grow (and possibly shrink) over time as I discover more engineering blogs, and I will use this list as a reference for myself.

• November 6, 2020
• in Conferences, Embedded Systems, Life, Opinionated, RSW Engineering
• 8 min read

🪞 Mirroring Public Repositories on Github, Privately

This post walks through the steps involved if you want to fork a public Github repository, privately. It will show how to have an open public repository and how to mirror it in a private repository on Github.

• November 6, 2020
• in Conferences, Embedded Systems, Life, Opinionated, RSW Engineering
• 10 min read

⚡️ PySpark by Example

Here are my worked examples from the very useful LinkedIn Learning course: PySpark by Example by Jonathan Fernandes : https://www.linkedin.com/learning/apache-pyspark-by-example

• November 6, 2020
• in Conferences, Embedded Systems, Life, Opinionated, RSW Engineering
• 5 min read

🎁 Packaging Scala Applications

Scala compiles down to Java byte code, which can then be run on any system running the JVM. It would be nice if one could extend this to native system binaries that can be run anywhere. Here I walk through the steps of getting SBT-Native-Packager to create a native binary as well as a docker image that can run my 'Hello World' application.