Vibe Coding with GitHub Copilot (Getting Started with GitHub Copilot)

If you've ever needed to deploy Java applets, you may have found the information on best practices scattered, inconsistent, and unreliable. Applet-Fu is a small JavaScript library that makes it easy to deploy applets by taking advantage of Web standards and features already supported by mainstream browsers. More detailed discussion of Applet-Fu is available from the Metamolecular Products Blog and the ChemWriter Best Practices Deployment Page.

Yaron Minsky nerdsniped me last week into getting OCaml to drive the 80s-retro RGB Matrix displays. I grabbed one from the local Pi Store and soldered it together with help from Michael Dales. But instead of writing OCaml bindings by hand, we thought we'd try out the latest agentic CLI called Claude Code released last week to see if we could entirely autogenerate the bindings.

Recently, Jean-Claude Bradley discussed improvements to the software his group uses to automate the determination of solubility from NMR spectra. The code, written by Andrew Lang, is available for download from the Open Notebook Science site. Now, there's nothing wrong with sharing source code this way - it's just that there's a much more effective way - with GitHub. I've created a fork of Andrew's NMR analysis code on GitHub.

The science blog archive Rogue Scholar depends heavily on GitHub Actions. They are used to trigger content and metadata extraction of new blog posts and to register DOIs for these posts with Crossref. More recently they have also been used to push this content and metadata to the new InvenioRDM-based Rogue Scholar platform. GitHub Actions are workflows that typically operate on the command line.