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kinow

525 karma · joined October 4, 2011

From Casa Verde, Sao Paulo, Brazil. After 8 years in Auckland, New Zealand, now in Barcelona, Spain. Working with workflow managers at the BSC. Past work includes government, research, programming, GIS/fuzzy logic/web development/NLP/ontologies/etc., web development, UIUX, illustrations and design.

https://twitter.com/kinow https://github.com/kinow/ https://kinoshita.eti.br/ https://www.instagram.com/brunokinoshita/ https://www.deviantart.com/kinow

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kinow··on Welcome to the PyPI Blog
I am using Sphinx with MyST as I had seen it being used in the JupyterHub.

I have textual on my bookmarks (have a future task to write a TUI for an app and need to choose between urwid and textual/rich [for HPC - ie older OS, lots of security measures around the terminal and access]).

I did a quick search but looks like I cannot use Sphinx directives with MkDocs [1].

I will search some more after coffee break, but there are directives I am using in other Sphinx (reSt and myst-md) that I would prefer to keep using if possible (I've also modified and monkey-patched some directives and loaded locally with sphinx/py).

Thanks

[1]: https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs/discussions/2390

kinow··on Welcome to the PyPI Blog
The footer at that page says the site uses MkDocs [1]. Has anyone used it and knows how it compares to Sphinx and MyST-Parsee [2]?

[1]: https://www.mkdocs.org/

[2]: https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/markdown.html

kinow··on Show HN: Noya – A new kind of design tool
Someone created an issue about licensing: https://github.com/noya-app/noya/issues/372
kinow··on The artist whose book covers distilled the 1980s
These are really awesome!
kinow··on Scryer Prolog
I had seen the news about the new website, but didn't know that there were more great improvements in Scryer. Going to check it out, thanks for the nice summary of updates.
kinow··on Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
>This is a torii gate that has been in progress for a while: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm7LNGRP8-r/?hl=en and I plan to finish it this year (painting + gilding + carving)

Looks awesome! Where you find the patterns for your carvings? From existing patterns, or did you write some sort of generative art algorithms to create them?

kinow··on Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
Writing a novel in my native language already sounds challenging for me. I think writing it in a foreign language is a lot harder, and I wouldn't know where to start. Looks like you found a system, hope you can keep the pace and publish it soon. Good luck!
kinow··on Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
I liked your photos on Instagram :) It appears to have a certain identify, with nature, natives, mixing history, and with good composition.

I agree with t0bia_s 2 that you should create a portfolio. But please keep posting your work on Instagram (already following you) or wherever you like. Cheers!

kinow··on Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
Email sent!
kinow··on Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
A theater theater? Will you be involved in choosing the plays or anything? Gather other patrons or sponsors to maintain it? Maybe build a troupe and train amateur artists?

That sounds extremely interesting, and something I would never think about doing coming from IT. I understood you want to take a break from the tech world, but mind sharing how the idea of growing a live theater venue came to your mind? :)

Cheers

kinow··on Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
Found a job and moved to Spain, so will spend 2023 practicing Spanish and some Catalan.

Job is related to climate change, so will continue mixing workflow managers, climate experiments, HPC, Python, data analytics.

Other than that continue moderating r/functionalprogramming and r/fuzzylogic on reddit, add more Brazilian Portuguese expressions to https://speaklikeabrazilian.com, and try to release Apache Commons Imaging 1.0, and a new version of some old Jenkins plug-ins I haven't managed to find someone to adopt them.

If I find time will probably try to learn some more Prolog and reasoners with SPARQL/RDF/Jena...

kinow··on Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
Sounds interesting! I work with these data, is any of that going to be Open Source or commercial only?
kinow··on Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
Nice and good on you for teaching Haskell to highschoolers. Being exposed to some of its concepts at early age will probably pay dividends later on.

If you ever have something in English, post on reddit to r/functionalprogramming o/

kinow··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2022 and recommend for 2023
Oh, that sounds interesting! I like to take a break from books with other things like drawing, puzzles, manga, graphic novels. But I think I haven't followed a webnovel like this (the HFY subreddit stories is probably the closest I've done). Will give it a try! Thanks!
kinow··on Ask HN: Best books read in 2022?
I loved Hitchhiker's & also Candide, +1!
kinow··on French scientists decode 500-year-old letter
Amazing work. Pity the article doesn't have details as the researcher and their team are still finishing the academic paper. Here's the researcher website (couldn't find social media to follow up about the paper):

- https://members.loria.fr/CPierrot/

Does anyone know if there is a Wikipedia page that collects documents that are pending translation or code-breaking like the letter in the article? I searched but the closest I found was a list of cryptography challenges.

kinow··on StackStorm: Event-driven automation
I tested StackStorm sometime ago to confirm you can have cycles in the workflow graph: https://kinoshita.eti.br/2021/10/01/cyclic-workflows-with-cy...

I work with climate and weather workflows, where cycles in workflows are common (ecFlow and Cylc are popular tools that support it).

Haven't checked in a while but I expect StackStorm's Orchesta engine to have even more interesting features now.

kinow··on Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?
>- Sites that work without JavaScript. Even better than the first, it's always a pleasure to see when a site is made properly for a change, without the toxicity of JavaScript that pervades the world wide web (WWW) as we know it.

I kept the colors I used before, but dropped JavaScript and tried to use CSS that is compatible with multiple browsers. It has been a learning experience, but very interesting to see how far I can get to with just HTML and CSS.

Now I've started focusing on semantic web tags, and accessibility testing. Much easier without JavaScript.

- Site: https://kinoshita.eti.br/

- Source: https://github.com/kinow/kinoshita.eti.br/

kinow··on Australia's weird little time zone (2008)
>This is quite rare, something found nowhere else except Nepal and in a few small, isolated corners of the globe. Visitors entering or leaving ACWST have to remember to set their watches in the proper direction either forward or back by 45 minutes.

New Zealand has a time zone with +45 minutes too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_Standard_Time_Zone

kinow··on Technical milestone reached: global earth system simulations with 1.2 km resoln
I am working on DestinE with workflow managers and posted my first entry in Who's Hiring some days ago. Lots of work and interesting challenges if anyone is interested in earth system models, NWP, workflows, HPC, GPU's, data formats, etc. Not only on my company, the BSC in Spain, but also in other countries/companies as well.
kinow··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2022)
Barcelona Supercomputing Center | HPC, GPU, Workflow Engineers | Barcelona | Hybrid (Barcelona Spain, VISA is possible) | https://bsc.es

Hi, I am a Workflows engineer with the BSC, working on Autosubmit (autosubmit.readthedocs.io), an Open Source Python workflow engine used in HPC for running climate models. I am currently relocating from Auckland New Zealand to Barcelona to join the rest of the team. The whole company uses English for communication which helps me a lot, and they can also help with visa (work/family visa, documents, and relocation — which was my case).

BSC is hiring other engineers for a project that involves GPU's, models (climate, earth, ocean, NWP, and more), workflow engines (some cyclic workflows, data provenance, monitoring, scalability, ...), data integration, digital twins, and more. These positions are for a project with collaboration with several other European institutes. Below you can find the links to the positions. Some will expire soon but they will be re-posted, so check the bsc.es website if you are interested the position is closed or expired, please.

Workflows engineer: https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/25822escesre1

Data interface: https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/15822escesre1

I/O libraries (C++): https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/34522escesre1

HPC: https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/36922escesre2

GPUs: https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/19522escesre2

If you have any questions feel free to DM (although I can only discuss what's public about the company and about the projects). Cheers.

kinow··on Apache Shenyu Project Graduates
Hmm. First paragraphs all about the name instead of describing the project.
kinow··on Software engineering research questions
TIL as well: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2021/10/28/22751274/facebook-m...
kinow··on Technical Writing Courses from Google
I am updatijg the user guide for an open source project, and found these short courses really helpful. It helps you write concisely and to keep the content simple. As well as provide some tools for structuring your docs.

The other resources I used were Diatáxis [1] and writing books I had on my bookshelf (Stephen King, Zinsser, etc)

[1] https://diataxis.fr/

kinow··on Ask HN: Is there a tool / product that enables commenting on HTML elements?
Came here to recommend hypothesis. It's used in academia/research, and you can add as a widget to your site too.
kinow··on Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious
Love JamesGurney for arts too, didn't know the other two. Thanks!
kinow··on Buddhism has found a new institutional home in the West: the corporation
Found one on FaceBook, I think: https://www.facebook.com/Mai-Dire-GialappaS-109451077867913/...
kinow··on Ask HN: How do you find meaningful jobs?
I found a job as research software engineer (there was a thread about it here on HN yesterday) in a national research institute in New Zealand (NIWA). After some years I was paid by the institute to help maintain an Open Source tool used to run the numerical weather prediction models in UK/Au/NZ.

Now I am working on another workflow engine, CWL, used in life sciences and getting more popular. I find it a lot more enjoyable these types of projects used in research, where anyone can contribute via an open source community. My current work is sponsored by Curii in the USA.

The salary is definitely a lot less than FAANG's, but I stopped worrying about that a long time ago, and decided to focus on what I had fun and felt realized. There are lots of groups and companies looking for RSE's, you can find some in the Who's Hiring thread, some times, but ResearchGate and Google will probably give you a lot more options.

p.s.: if you get a job in a research institute, chances are that it is also related to government, so they might be able to sponsor your visa if you'd like to move somewhere else as well.

kinow··on I finally got Twitter after years of not getting it
That's pretty much how I use any social media. Unfollow/block/mute. Works on reddit too.
kinow··on Kaketsugi – A technique for repairing holes or tears in fabric (2021) [video]
I tried learning invisible stiches to repair some clothes - nothing as hard as kaketsugi - but later found out about easier techniques that leave the the results are visible but still looks good.

- Sashiko https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sashiko - Boro https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boro_(textile) - And this sub with heaps of exampled and tips https://www.reddit.com/r/visiblemending/

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