Posted in 2020
Contributing to open source: A short guide for organizations
- 08 November 2020
Over the years I’ve had a recurring question from people who are in organizations both big and small: how can we participate in open source communities?
Whether it is because of altruism or strategic importance, many companies, research groups, non-profits, etc want to be involved in open source projects (particularly large and impactful ones like Jupyter), but getting involved can be an opaque and confusing process if you’re not already familiar with open source. Each community has its own nuances and social dynamics, and approaching from the outside can be a challenge.
A new blog with Sphinx
- 10 October 2020
I recently re-wrote all of the infrastructure for my blog so that it now builds on top of the Sphinx ecosystem! This is a short post to describe the reasons for doing so, and a bit about the implementation.
This is a great question. The answer to “should you re-work your blog to use a new SSG” is almost always “no, it’s a waste of your time”, but I think I had a few good reasons ;-)
What do people think about rST?
- 22 January 2020
Publishing computational narratives has always been a dream of the Jupyter Project, and there is still a lot of work to be done in improving these use-cases. We’ve made a lot of progress in providing open infrastructure for reproducible science with JupyterHub and the Binder Project, but what about the documents themselves? We’ve recently been working on tools like Jupyter Book, which aim to improve the writing and publishing process with the Jupyter ecosystem. This is hopefully the first post of a few that ask how we can best-improve the state of publishing with Jupyter.
Many of the ideas in this post have now made their way into a new flavor of markdown called Markedly Structured Text, or MyST. It brings all of the features of rST into Markdown. Check it out!
Build a simple timeline with sphinx-design
- 22 January 2020
One of the nice things about MyST Markdown is that it is extensible. Any Sphinx extension will work with MyST Markdown (in the context of Jupyter Book, anyway).
One of my favorite Sphinx extensions is Sphinx Design, this brings you flexible UI components that use Bootstrap CSS under the hood (though without heavy javascript). They let you do things like this: