Tim Staley

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I'm a software engineer of sorts and an ex-academic. Probably the best label for what I do is "research software engineer" . In practice, that means I spend my time working with domain specialists to figure out how to solve their computational problems, understanding algorithms and how best to apply them, and planning…

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Making Git and Jupyter Notebooks play nice

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Summary: jq rocks for speedy JSON mangling. Use it to make powerful git clean filters, e.g. when stripping out unwanted cached-data from Jupyter notebooks. You can find the documentation of git 'clean' and 'smudge' filters buried in the page on git-attributes , or see my example setup below.