The Political Physicist

 The ramblings of a left-wing research software engineer…


Articles with tag “Python”

FORD: FORtran Documentation

Over Christmas break I’ve been working on this project to produce documentation for Fortran programs. I’ve (just) managed to finish it before school starts again! Here is the README for it, containing the documentation which I wrote. You can find the code on Github.

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What I Did Over Christmas Break

Thanks to the wonders of the Internet I now watch almost all movies and TV shows via my computer using an HDMI cable to play them on my television set. The problem with this arrangement is that it prevents me from using my computer for anything else while the video is playing. So, with the extra time I have over the Christmas break I set to work designing a program that, when paired with a Raspberry Pi will allow me to over come this. I present to you: Conetroller.

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C. MacMackin
I am a research software engineer, writing code for scientists working on fusion energy. I am also an active member of the Prospect trade union.