Learning by Teaching
Study notes transformed into teaching materials along the way.
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About
My name is Walter (you find my background here) and I like writing about science and engineering topics. I have more than a decade of scientific computing experience and a broad experience with open source software, especially in the fields of fluid dynamics and gas phase kinetics; a little of it being shared here, among other subjects of my personal interest.
During the years I tried to different formats to organize my study materials and working tools. Recently that I tried coupling my knowledge base with the documentation of my personal code without success and started migrating everything to the simples format you find here. Obviously I cannot migrate all the content I have ever produced here at once, so my decision was to restructure everything and have a fresh start, feeding content as required, i.e. somebody asked me a hand in a certain subject or I need to refresh certain skill at work. Sometimes I also write on Medium articles.
Contact
You can reach me through Zulip Chat or e-mail; for an initial conversation, please prefer e-mail. For engaging in long term discussion and collaboration I prefer Zulip Chat.
Projects
Currently I maintain three main projects:
They are fundamentally different in the way they are managed. The contents of Taskforce are experimental code for automating my daily activities; it will remain undocumented for now. AuChimiste is being worked on to be published as a Julia package, while WallyToolbox is where I work out my ideas before they reach maturity. So while the former is expected to be stable, the latter is constantly melting away.
Because of the very specific nature of some of my research, I have been working on a few VS Code extensions for helping highlighting syntaxes.