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I came across Giscus at the bottom of a Cosma listing on kausalflow.com. Giscus provides a simple way to add GitHub comments to a Jekyll website (like this one). This allows anyone to comment on my website using GitHub Discussions! The setup process was surprisingly simple, only taking me about 10-15 minutes to complete and troubleshoot.
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Software is tough to design - not because programming itself is difficult, but because the technical requirements and user input are subject to change. As someone who is not a software engineer by training, cutting through the decision paralysis to design programs to accommodate change is one of the most difficult parts of programming.
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Editable installs in Python are kind of broken, at least in more recent versions of Python 3 (~3.7+ at least). The purpose of an editable installation is to allow the developer of a package to install and import it in the same fashion that any user would, and enable changes to be made to the installed package without needing to reinstall the package after every single change. Unfortunately, that functionality seems to be broken, at least using pip and venv.
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Graphs (in the mathematical sense) underly many common problems, as they are an elegant way to manage “many to many” relationships. They have certainly captured my attention in the last few years as I attempt to build a workflow orchestration tool/data processing pipeline runner for use in my own research, which requires a graph (specifically, a DAG) to keep track of the dependencies of each step (see my current effort here).
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Instructions for uploading a Python package to PyPI or Test PyPI, taken from the Python docs. Note that first you need to have a properly formatted pyproject.toml or setup.py
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You can run MATLAB commands in Python using the MATLAB Engine API for Python. This page documents what I’ve learned about the process of setting it up.
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Setting up this personal website from the template at academic pages involves several steps: