Posts tagged gsoc
Fixing your git mess
- 27 August 2021
On a day-to-day basis I use GitHub Desktop due to its nice graphical interface and that my git skills are close to zero. Every now and then, I screw things sufficiently up that I don’t know how to fix it and sometimes I don’t even know how I ended up there. At this point, I really just want to go back in time to when my code was working - which is the topic of this blog post.
Summary of Google Summer of Code with pvlib
- 22 August 2021
The coding period of this year’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is officially over, and it’s time to take a step back and evaluate the experience. For those of you who might not know, I’ve been working on extending pvlib’s iotools for the past 10 weeks, which I described in this blog post.
Staying safe on GitHub
- 02 August 2021
Hardcoding credentials such as passwords are often tempting but almost always a bad idea. This is especially true if you are hosting your code on public platforms like GitHub for anyone to peruse. But what can you do?
Virtual environments cheat sheet
- 19 July 2021
This cheat sheet will cover the basics of conda environments, though the general workflow is similar for other types of virtual environments.
pvlib - a one-stop source for solar resource data
- 10 June 2021
This title at least represents the aim of my Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project that I will be completing during the next 10 weeks. In short, I’ll be extending pvlib python’s current iotools functionalities to provide users with easy and standardized access to all major open-source solar resource databases.
