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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Reading notes on Naming Things by Tom Benner

Naming Things by Tom Benner a tiny but neat book about the naming of identifies in code (variables, classes, methods, so not packages or libraries). It had entered my to-read list a few years ago, when I read the blog post Naming Things by Vicki Boykis. Tom Benner’s book is self published and available from Amazon (e-book and paperback) and Leanpub (e-book). I rarely buy stuff on Amazon, and prefer to read on paper, so I patiently waited for a copy to appear on my favorite second-hand book website.

Desarrollo de paquetes avanzado

Taller para quiénes ya han desarrollado, o contribuido a, paquetes R. Mejor venís con un paquete tuyo para trabajar en ello. Esta sesion de capacitación del Programa de Campeon(a|e)s de rOpenSci pertenece al track técnico de formación en programación.


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”.