As a part of my work in the Cohere project, I had to learn about and utilise Docker. The purpose of this article is to impart some knowledge and lessons about Docker, knowledge that I wish I had known when I initially started utilising it. This blog post is split into two distinct sections: the first section presents a brief overview of Docker itself and its uses, and the second section provides some Windows-specific advice. What is Docker? Docker is an open platform that allows users to package up applications in containers with everything they need to run. […]
COVID-19. Need I say more? It’s totally changed how people work and will affect how workplaces operate for years to come. This article discusses how we, the Supergen team, worked together despite never meeting in person and being spread across different timezones. In order to function well as a team, all members should get along […]
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Working with Netlify CMS
Amish explains how the Netlify CMS was used to create a simple but effective wiki facility, to allow Supergen Bioenergy Hub researchers to keep their app up-to-date.
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Where we work from
In a post written shortly before the summer projects ended, Jang asks our student employees about their personal working environments.
Karam describes how he set up our CI/CD facility by installing a GitLab Runner on our development VM.
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Taking a Short Break
After an exciting summer of coding, the student software company is closing down for a while. Suzanne says thanks and farewell to a fantastic team.
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Q&A with Natalia, ex-Amazon
How does working for a student software company compare with working for a tech giant? Natalia has experienced both. She compares life as a developer at Amazon with her work for Imago this summer.
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Working from home – my experience
Jang Belche, business analyst with our Supergen team, describes his experiences of working from home for the first time. While he concedes a few negatives, Jang gives his home-office working patterns a big thumbs up.
It’s summer 2020 and that means it’s time for our second pilot run of the University of Manchester student software company. We learnt a lot from our first pilot run last summer, not least from the great feedback we got from our founder employees. But we have a whole new set of challenges this year: […]