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Fall 2026 UC Carpentries: organizing, teaching, promoting
A two-week online Carpentries series across UC campuses this September: Software Carpentry, Library Carpentry, and a Sharing Research Software session. I built the site, ran instructor sign-up and outreach, and I'm teaching.
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What I don't let an AI agent decide
A tool for building Carpentries workshop websites with any AI coding agent. The interesting design choice wasn't the automation. It was where the agent's judgment stops and a hard rule takes over.
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Rebuilding a Carpentries lesson on software citation taught me that the reframe that mattered wasn't a new standard. It was retargeting the whole lesson from researchers publishing their own code to librarians advising other people's.
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From Teaching Workshops to Building Research Infrastructure
How eight years of work at UCLA evolved from teaching data skills to building the systems that make open, sustainable research possible.