Wrapping up a busy week at the office. What exists now on Friday that didn't on Monday:

* Cordova library that allows hybrid JS mobile apps to use NFC to scan specially-equipped pill bottles to track medication adherence.

* A new French contractor onboarded to a busy client project.

* Early versions of a new open-source package to help researchers build voice-based user interfaces on Amazon's Alexa platform.

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#SelfEmployment #ResearchComputing

#introduction Hello! I work in #highered supporting #researchcomputing and other #technology for #research. My current focus in on #digitalhumanties and #digitalscholarship. By training I am a #herpetologist and #evolutionarybiologist with interest in #phylogenetics and #naturalhistory. In my spare time, I am interested in #gardening #nativeplants, #photography #macro, #wildlife, #landscape and #wine and #whiskey including #fermentation

Budget anxiety arises when you worry about what you can't see (going on in your #AWS account). Matt Vaughn has a fix: make it visible and send alerts (to *your phone* and Slack channels) if *anything* goes bump in the night. SRSLY usefu and worth doing right away. #HPC #ResearchComputing #science https://day1hpc.com/post/sending-budget-alerts-to-your-phone-to-monitor-your-aws-usage/

If you ever want to give your research software developer a small heart attack, tell them that the system that you thought was collecting data for months, isn't.

(The data was there, just not where the researcher was looking fortunately.)

#researchcomputing #derp

Rather proud of the code that I got running today, but there's a significant non-zero chance that the owner of the walled-garden in which we're distributing will allow it through their channels to our study participants.

I'm not doing something nefarious (it's a project under the governance of a university IRB), but the walled-garden owner may not like the data we're collecting, even if we completely disclose it to the listing site and our users. (Which we do.)

#researchcomputing #passivedata