I’m working on setting up a technical blog at novem.technology/blog, using Pelican, a static web site generator. I really like the Medium interface, and the annotative approach to comments, and perhaps I can still use this blog, but I want to be able to do technical blogging, embed notebooks, have well formated…

I suppose the main point of importance for most people new to the recipe model should be the isolation it gives the scientific-programmer, the distinction it makes between that and the more pure-software of what is to a scientific programmer merely annoying-but-necessary “software…

The recipe system satisfies a complex of organizational constraints that exist on an organization like Gemini. I think going over the orgazational motivations for the system will help explain the nature of the system and where it is in its evolution.

Once upon a time, around 2003, Gemini Observatory started a new team to to develop data processing software for Gemini’s many instruments, consisting of myself and a PhD Astronomer. Up to that point, it was the responsibility of staff scientists to produce basic scripts to reduce the data for…

In the last year I’ve been working on and with the recipe system developed originally by the Gemini Data Processing Software Group. As part of the open nature of this system I’ve decided to attempt to be more active on this blog, which is difficult because I tend to wake up and think about code. I want to use…