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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Git commits: please mark your stitches!

In which I share a crochet analogy for Git commits… Don’t forget your stitch markers! I am happily continuing my crochet learning journey. One lesson I have now internalised is that I should never ever forget or neglect to use stitch markers. Stitch markers are sort of small, not spiky, safety pins. A crochet project featuring several stitch markers (beginning of a Snorlax from Lee Sartori’s Pokemon crochet book)

Mejor código, sin esfuerzos, sin siquiera IA

Con Hugo Gruson y Etienne Bacher. Estamos viviendo una revolución de la programación, con la democratización de la inteligencia artificial…Pero también con la creación y los mejoramientos de herramientas más de la vieja escuela para mejorar su código: locales, gratuitos, deterministas. En esta charla os presentaré Air, una herramienta para formatear el código R de manera automática y quasi instantánea; lintr, un paquete R que detecta siempre más motivos de código para mejorar; flir, un paquete R que para una parte de los chequeos de lintr no solo los detecta más rápido sino también los repara de forma automática.


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”.