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5 articles · Latest May 20, 2025

eScience Editorial Team·May 20, 2025

Scientific Community Building through Workshops: the NPLinker eScience experience

This blog post is written by Wageningen University & Research Assistant Professor Justin van der Hooft, who participates in the Open eScience Call 2021. His project “A communit...

Suvayu·Apr 22, 2025

Solving the mystery of the missing symbols! (part II)

This is the conclusion to the story I wrote about earlier. In that earlier post, we were investigating why the MingW-w64 build of DuckDB fails to export the C-API symbols in the fi...

ole·Feb 21, 2025

Fast-Forward Merges on GitHub

The year is 2025 CE and GitHub.com still can’t do “fast-forward” merges via its web-interface. But you can; I’ll show you how. Photo by Joakim Honkasalo on UnsplashGithub.com offer...

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Johan Hidding·Nov 10, 2022

Unweaving legacy code using Entangled

For a Research Software Engineer, dealing with legacy code is seen as a chore: dirty work, but a necessary evil. But the truth is, every time I read someone else’s code, I learn so...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Mar 18, 2020

A mathematician in quarantine

Flattening the curve, and why you should stay at home Photo by History in HD on Unsplash I write this entry at the beginning of the COVID19 crisis in Europe. I am not a medical exp...