Continuous integration, and in particular the related methods of automated testing and continuous deployment, is something many projects on Github utilize. For most projects, automated testing is performed using unit tests verifying that the software behaves correctly. But not only software is hosted on Github — with the excellent Github Pages service, many blogs and static webpages are being…
Leading up to the Swedish election a few weeks ago, the usual storm of polls was used in a (for me, at least) new way. A Github repository consolidating data from major polling institutes was published and used to power a prediction of the election results using a bayesian model based on the poll data. The same data was used to power a poll of polls.
I like playing with data, and the…
The Github ecosystem is full of exciting projects designed to make pushing well-tested, well-crafted, well-documented and frequently deployed projects with ease (and badges). But there’s a blind spot: trying to do these things with a project not written in whatever language is most popular this month is a bit of a challenge. Just setting up continuous builds for a project written in modern C++1…
Imagine a utility library of sorts, geared at providing basic standard library-like functionality for a product designed to run in performance-sensitive applications on resource-constrained embedded systems with various functional safety constraints. Additionally, there is a wish to minimize compile times, meaning headers in both library and application code ideally should contain…
The topic of AI disruption has been cropping up a lot lately, and I’ve been thinking about the fairly rapid and uncritical introduction of tools like Anthropic’s Claude in the software industry in what you might ungenerously describe as _luddite_1 terms. I am by no means the only one worrying about this seemingly inevitable disruption, and Adam Neely’s video essay _Suno, AI Music, and the Bad…