Writing – Tinashe Tapera

I write about research software engineering, notebook-driven development, R/Python tooling, and the systems work that helps scientific projects stay reproducible after the first prototype.

Legacy Posts

Here you can find archived older posts from my old website.

Speeding Up The GitHub Actions Development Cycle with `act`

When I was first introduced to GitHub Actions (GHA), I was excited about the possibilities it offered for automating…

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Notebook Driven Development Micro Talk

reproducibility

research-software-engineering

In 2023, I left my PhD to work full-time in academia as a Research Software Engineer.

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Begun, the Package Manager Wars, Have

package-management

There’s a quiet war brewing in the data science community, and no, it’s not about which AI model hallucinates the least.

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A Simple Demonstration of R in Production

Last summer, I found a part-time job that had no fixed schedule; instead, a schedule was sent week-to-week, meaning that I…

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My Summer in Oncology Data Science

I spent the past summer on leave from my PhD, and instead took an opportunity to intern at ConcertAI, a multinational…

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Building a Personal Package

package development

Do you ever find yourself revisiting short code snippets you’ve written over and over again? It’s probably a sign that you…

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Managing Expected Loop Failures with Purrr

Looping is a fundamental programming paradigm. You have a set of inputs, and you wanna run a function on each of them:

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So You Wanna Get Into Neuroscience…?

After 4 eventful years, I left my position as Senior Neuroimaging Data Analyst at my lab, PennLINC, in August of 2022. And…

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Ported Over to Quarto!

This is the first post in a Quarto blog. Welcome!

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