Hacksession 2025-01-17

[rwood-97]

Zoom link can be found in the calendar event.

On the first Monday of the month, a reminder will be sent to #hut23-hacksession-organising asking for a volunteer organiser. We should have a rotation to share the work.

Organisers should copy/paste the checklist below

• Create a new issue with the date of the hack session and copy this checklist. This issue will document the full session. Assing issue to the person organising that month.
• Check Turing meeting room is booked (should be Cipher).
• Check that the Slack workflow for advertising is doing its thing (reminders should go out a week before and the day of)
• Run the event
• Collect contributions to the session in the issue relevant to the session.
• Update the main page with new contributions https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/research-engineering-group/wiki/Open-source-hacksessions

[rwood-97]

@llewelld - PR to update the content in the FOSDEM mobile app for Sailfish OS for this year: https://codeberg.org/flypig/harbour-fosdem25/pulls/1 and added an online guestbook to the app (to replace the hardcoded one that was there before): https://codeberg.org/flypig/harbour-fosdem25/pulls/2

@rwood-97 - Wrote some code to parse IIIF json files into python dataclasses, with end goal of contributing this to the piffle package

@penelopeysm - Spent time reading about this algorithm for choosing axis ticks: http://vis.stanford.edu/files/2010-TickLabels-InfoVis.pdf
Got here via an issue on matplotlib's tracker matplotlib/matplotlib#9373, so maybe one day will put in a PR. The Julia plotting ecosystem uses a similar version of the algorithm (https://github.com/JuliaPlots/PlotUtils.jl/blob/master/src/ticks.jl), so that could be a future PR too 🙂

@mhauru - Implemented a feature request I had for Julia’s standard library’s test utilities: JuliaLang/julia#57084 and fixed some of the tests for those test utilities: JuliaLang/julia#57085