- stdsimd documentation PR. Turns out, I'm not only a one trick pony and I'm brushing up on my Rust!
stdsimdis Rust's foray into providing native SIMD instructions without reaching down to intrinsics. My goal in that project is to lower the gates for understanding by providing useful and beginner friendly documentation on a performance topic that's unusually hard to start people on. If you read the PR, do check out the Rust Godbolt links with the side-by-side assembly instruction. Those took a good couple of days to get up and running, and I'm pretty proud. - Let's talk about failures and how I spent a good afternoon not making Term.jl.
- updated the mold jll recipe.
- I did an initial code review of Tyler J. Thomas's repo (a monthly sponsor!), RAPIDS.jl. I was lucky enough to award it its first star!
- Coordinated with Assad Hussaini on Numerical Relativity and a roadmap of JuliaLang domination
- Talk with IIMAS. I was able to talk to Ramsés Mena Cueva, director of IIMAS, a presitigious applied maths institute of UNAM in Mexico City. I've gotten the green light to prepare a 20 hour intro -> intermediate course in Julia for practical scientists and engineers in Spanish and I'm super excited :D.
- Julia Spanish lessons. I setup a Google Sign up sheet so that people can request (paid) Spanish Julia lessons. I haven't begun launching them because I want to include a way for marginalized people to be part of lessons at no cost, but I haven't yet figured out how.
- Unfortunately, it seems that the Keynote Speaker I had helped get for JuliaCon will not be able to attend. I wish them the best, and somebody else that presents will also be really cool, but I got a bit bummed out about this setback because there wasn't much that I could do.
- Reached out to people in Ferrous Systems, a company that does Rust training, and hopefully something interesting happens and I can contribute even more spanish tutorials to their base.
- Wrote a blog post on
nothing,missingandNaN. - Wrote on the
10 years of JuliaLangblogpost. If you want to read my Julia origin story, it's up there. - Art and math blogpost. This is a post I've been meaning to publish for a while because I've told this analogy enough times that I think I should just put it in writing. It's about how we punish people instead of teaching them mathematics.
- Py-Mx - I made a submission to give a talk at Py-Mx, a local programming Python meetup group.
- The DataPub Mexico City meetup - Sent an email to Vicente to present and arrange dates. The ball's on their court for this to happen now.
- That C# Guy podcast appearance
- Tried. Fixed my blog to not have horribly broken links. Failed. Again.
- I appeared on the Talk Julia podcast (link to talk will be posted after this newsletter goes live) to talk about the REPL, JuliaCon and what Julia learned from other Programming Language communities.
That's it for this month. Take it easy, and I hope you don't mind my silly April fool's joke on twitter too much. ¡Gracias!