The Political Physicist

 The ramblings of a left-wing research software engineer…


Articles with tag “Software”

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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Gnuplotting, LaTeXing, and Other Made Up Verbs

Anyone who knows me in person and has seen me do any amount of work in physics knows that my preferred graphing software is Gnuplot. The only place where I’ve every really had a problem with Gnuplot is when it comes to including special characters and math in axis labels. What is needed is a way for Gnuplot to be able to work with LaTeX notation.

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A Bit of News

As you may have noticed, there have been several blog articles released at the same time, today. The day before I went home for Christmas, the Raspberry Pi on which I host this blog refused to start and I couldn’t figure out how to fix it before it was time to leave. Also, I would like to draw your attention to a new link at the top of this page entitled Software.

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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.