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The Open Source Software Club Pilot: A Step Towards Collaborative Coding

Akshit Atmakuri, our Technical Comms Officer for summer 2024, writes about his experiences attending a pilot meeting of our new Open Source Software Club.

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Imago Tech Talk

You are invited to upcoming Tech Talk inviting Matt Squire from Fuzzy Labs. Matthew Squire (Fuzzy labs)  Matt is CTO and co-founder at Fuzzy Labs, with interests in AI, bio-inspired computing, and functional programming. Often found inside Emacs. An introduction to Matcha — an open source tool for provisioning machine learning infrastructure  Wednesday 2nd August […]

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Working with clients, what to avoid and how to enjoy the journey

Working with clients is challenging but the rewards of delighting your client by developing software that really delivers on their needs make it worthwhile. Ingy reflects on her Imago summer project experience and draws some lessons for working with non-technical clients.

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A Mess of a Merge: How I Fought Git and Won

LCT and its Tech Stack What is LCT: LCT is a local contact tracing application developed by Michael Corning of the Soteria Institute alongside Enduring Net’s Ser-huang Poon. It aims to help fight the spread of Covid-19 in local communities and or large organisations. Tech stack: LCT is a dockerized JavaScript-based web app, with a VUE.js-based UI and a Redis, Socket.io, Node.js backend. The Imago Team’s […]

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Everything you need to know about working with Docker and Docker on Windows

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. […]

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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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Setting up the company’s CI/CD pipeline on its VM using GitLab

Karam describes how he set up our CI/CD facility by installing a GitLab Runner on our development VM.