Maëlle Salmon

R(esearch) Software Engineer & Blogger based in Nancy, France

maelle on the verge of laughing
©Photo Julie Noury Soyer

Current work

  • Part-time research software engineer for rOpenSci (since February 2018).
  • Part-time software engineer for cynkra (since June 2022).

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Latest blog post & talk

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More crochet/programming thoughts

Here I am again, writing about crochet and programming! I’ve continued creating my tons of shitty stitches cute creatures. New Git analogy! The crochet lifeline First Git/crochet analogy. I read a great crochet book about creating your own amigurumi patterns: Créer ses propres modèles d’amigurumis au crochet by Clotilde Massot and Lise Grandjonc. One of its authors (Clotilde Massot) is a software developer who, among other things, published an octocat pattern that I bought and used… Anyway in the book they explain that when you create a pattern, you will probably have to undo your work several times.

Oops, Git!

To purchase the recording see https://sites.google.com/view/dariia-mykhailyshyna/main/r-workshops-for-ukraine#h.wqbtxn2ugxva Git is very useful. But it can also be scary when we make a mistake. Fortunately, with experience we make fewer mistakes… and/or we know better how to recover from them! In this hands-on workshop, we will learn how to get out of seven possible bad situations that can occur, with seven exercises inspired by the “Oh Shit, Git!” website https://ohshitgit.com/ and provided by the R package {saperlipopette}.


How to pronounce my name

My last name is Salmon like the fish and the colour, and you can pronounce it like that if you want. My first name, Maëlle, is derived from a Celtic word that means princess or chief. It’s pronounced “Ma-El” as “ma” in “macaroni” and as the Spanish “El”.