Week 15: Fin

We had another awesome talk from Vicky Steeves. Once again, I left the talk having learned a variety of new tools along with tidbits I would most likely not have come across myself. I also appreciated her direct approach to the topic of code preservation. I was especially struck by how she called out Github’s Arctic Vault program to be a PR stunt, not representative of the grueling work being done by other experts in the field. She also shared with us some of her work in the field of code preservation, namely Reprozip, which is mainly focused on code reproducibility.

Week 5: Bloomberg Engineering and Project Evaluations

Listening to Kevin Fleming talk about engineering at Bloomberg was one of the more awesome talks I have had the fortune of being a part of. Being an engineer at Bloomberg, I imagine its quite unique and rewarding to find yourself receiving the benefits of working at a large corporation while being able to contribute to open-source software.

Week 4: Guest Speakers

We had the opportunity to hear from Professor Deena Engel and librarian Vicky Steeves about their experience in working with data.

Week 3: Concluding the Extension Activity

I found that working on the browser extension with my group was surprisingly exciting. I know it was supposed to be a mini-project focused on getting us to use git as a tool but I’m surprised how fun throwing three strangers together on a low-stakes project was!

Week 2: My First Ever Extension

This was my first time ever writing a browser extension. It was not as daunting during, given that we had all the code for the couple runs, but it became daunting when we had to come up with our own.

Week 1: Reintroduced to Open-Source

To me, open source used to just mean available online for free.