Travis caching and incremental builds

Update (Aug 7, 2018): added a section at the bottom with new configuration settings and an…

Easier Docker in Python

Docker is a tool that creates a stack of virtual environments on top of a running Linux kernel. This allows you to…

So I wanted to be a Research Software Engineer

The challenges of enhancing science via technology

What games can teach you (about science)

If you know me at all, you have probably heard me talk about computer games at least once. Games are such a huge part of how I spend my free time, it is hard for me to not talk about them in the best of circumstances, but if there is at least one other…

First Light! … again! Shiny new receivers for the Westerbork telescope.

Breaking jargon barriers at Talking eScience 2017

What happened during the “Historic newspapers as ‘big data’” congress?

On Friday 20th of January 2017, the Royal Library (a.k.a. Koninklijke Bibilotheek or KB) hosted the second congress on Historic newspapers as big data, with the central topic of Concept Drift. Slides and…

Reaching for the sky? Wishes for the European Open Science Cloud