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

Some time ago, the brilliant GitHub people gave me the following tip. Rajarshi is lazy, and might find it interesting. By appending .patch to the commit URL, a commit can easily be downloaded as patch. That way, developers can easily download it with wget or curl and apply it locally with git am, without having the fetch the full repository.

Following the CDK and JChemPaint Primary, Bioclipe moved to Git just after the 2.0.0 release.

The GitHub Blog has published a writeup about Bioclipse's method for importing scripts from GitHub. Although there are obvious security issues with allowing arbitrary code to be run directly from the Web without a sandbox, this approach has some potential. GitHub has many other potential uses for chemistry.

Following on from Annotating and cleaning GBIF data: Darwin Core Archive, GitHub, ORCID, and DataCite here's a quick and dirty example of using GitHub to help clean up a Darwin Core Archive. The dataset 3i - Cicadellinae Database has 2,152 species and 4,749 taxa, but GBIF says it has no georeferenced data.

Slides for the flashtalk "Automated Twitter coverage using rtweet and GitHub Actions" for the Bioconductor Annual Conference 2020.