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.

The InvenioRDM GitHub Archiver (IGA) is a new software tool created by the Caltech Library. InvenioRDM is the basis for many institutional repositories, such as CaltechDATA, that enable users to preserve software and data sets in a long-term archive. The metadata contained in the record of a deposit is critical to making the record widely discoverable by other people.

I'm currently teaching a computational linguistics course, and for just the second time, I'm using Github Classroom to manage assignments. I might make a few posts about what I've learned in the process, but for now, I think I'll focus on what's gone right, and what's been more challenging in using Github Codespaces. Github Codespaces A Github Codespace is basically a virtual machine hosted by Github with VS Code as the default interface.