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Tag: programming

Redoing my CV and Cover Letter for Job Applications

I have recently decided to quit my current job and pursue a career as a developer. This decision has been in the making for a while and only matured a short time ago, still I feel like it's the right...

Programming, Personal

Profiling

This is a short story about performance, profiling and optimization. First, some backstory. For my current job I'm doing quantum chemical calculations on proteins. If this doesn't mean anything to you...

Programming, Software

My Thoughts on Julia

A while ago I decided to learn a new programming language. I don't exactly remember why but I felt like I wanted to. There were two candidates I was interested in, Rust and Julia. A colleague of mine...

Software, Programming

How To: Commit to someone else's pull request

I'm currently experiencing the pleasure of collaborating on an open source project with someone else on GitHub and I love doing it. There was an issue with runtime performance and we looked into it, d...

"Programming", "Software", "How To"

How To: Work with Python virtual environments

Whenever you start a project in Python you probably want to do it in a fresh environment so as not to have your dependencies clash with those of other projects, prevent version mismatch or other unexp...

Programming, How To, Software

My Experience with Rust

A while ago I stumbled across some mention of the Stack Overflow Developer Survey which found that the Rust language has held the spot of most loved programming language since 2016. That seemed intere...

Programming, Software