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.

Wake Up Babe, New Quarto Product Just Dropped

A first look at Quarto’s new great-docs package, why I care, and why I think it might finally give Python package docs a…

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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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Legacy Posts

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