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Milan Curcic
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Oct 15, 2022

Losing Liam

Today is the Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. It’s also the day that our son Liam was due to be born. Liam was born prematurely on August 9 and died shortly after birth. My wife Evelyn had a routine growth check during her 31st week of pregnancy, from where…

Loss

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Losing Liam
Losing Liam
Loss

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Published in Cloudrun

·Sep 30, 2022

Cloudrun’s Fall 2022 Update: Faster and More Reliable with Simpler Pricing

It’s been a while and I’ve been quietly working on several important updates to Cloudrun’s internals. No UI changes or new features this time — this update is all about making Cloudrun more reliable, efficient, and correct. …

Wrf

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Cloudrun’s Fall 2022 Update: Faster and More Reliable with Simpler Pricing
Cloudrun’s Fall 2022 Update: Faster and More Reliable with Simpler Pricing
Wrf

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Jul 8, 2021

Do things last minute

Self-proclaimed wisemen, productivity experts, and wanna-be executives teach you to complete tasks ahead of time, in an organized and systematic way. Small tasks? Do them immediately. It’s the only way to be an effective executive. No. Don’t do things now or ahead of time. Do them last minute. Let’s face…

Productivity

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Productivity

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Published in Modern Fortran

·Dec 30, 2020

Writing a technical book with Manning in 2020

Two months ago I published Modern Fortran: Building Efficient Parallel Applications with Manning Publications. It was a long journey (3 years!) and here I describe my experience: The writing process, tools I used, working with Manning staff, the economics of writing a technical book, and challenges. Though the title of…

Writing

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Writing a technical book with Manning in 2020
Writing a technical book with Manning in 2020
Writing

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Published in Modern Fortran

·Dec 21, 2020

First year of Fortran-lang

Last week marked one year since the birth of the Fortran-lang open source community. A lot has happened and many of us who have participated agree that the progress exceeded our highest expectations. After two decades of a cold and desolate Fortran winter, are we approaching a new golden era…

Fortran

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First year of Fortran-lang
First year of Fortran-lang
Fortran

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Nov 28, 2020

Abandonware

Abandonware is software abandoned by its maker. People sometimes speak of it in a negative context. “Nobody uses it anymore”. “A waste of time invested”. “Why would they even make that?”. “What a failure!” Nonsense. Abandonware is what’s left when its maker learned what there is to learn from it and moved on. It’s software that served its purpose. Finding what doesn’t work is a prerequisite for finding what works.

Software Development

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Software Development

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Oct 28, 2020

Useless citations

A few days ago I got notice from Google Scholar about the first citation of my latest paper on drag coefficient in hurricane winds: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2020GL087647 When I get these notifications, I go and look at the paper that cited it. Perhaps my results supported theirs, or maybe the Authors disagreed…

Science

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Science

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Oct 4, 2020

Modelers, modelers, and modelers

Any scientific discipline that involves numerical modeling has three kinds of modelers: People who develop models People who run models for their or other people’s research People who analyze model output for their research Neither is better or worse than the other. Model developers (1) often also run models (2)…

Science

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Science

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Aug 9, 2020

Sleep paralysis

It’s not a bad dream — I’ve suffered from sleep paralysis since adolescence. For several years I didn’t know what it was, or that it was even a thing. …

Sleep

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Sleep paralysis
Sleep paralysis
Sleep

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Published in Modern Fortran

·Jun 14, 2020

Twitch stream, book status, and other Fortran news

This week I did my first ever Twitch stream, hosted by my book publisher. I had fun doing it and now look forward to streaming more in my own channel. Without Manning I certainly wouldn’t consider streaming, so thank you for hosting me. In the stream I did a 2-hour…

Programming

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Twitch stream, book status, and other Fortran news
Twitch stream, book status, and other Fortran news
Programming

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