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Jacob Williams

@degenerateconic.bsky.social

Orbital mechanic & programmer. #Fortran aficionado. πŸš€ https://degenerateconic.com https://mastodon.social/@jacobwilliams https://x.com/DegenerateConic

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Anaconda Announces Partnership with Prefix.dev to BringΒ  Next-Generation Functionality to conda-build | Anaconda Empowering builders and enterprises with 3-5x faster package creation while strengthening the entire open source ecosystem AUSTIN, TX (July 9, 2025)Β β€”Β Anaconda Inc., the leader in advancing AI with op...

www.anaconda.com/press/announ... Oooo, this is interesting. conda-build is a frustrating tool to use. No bug I've ever submitted to them has ever been fixed (and issues get closed automatically by their stupid stale bot). Maybe this will improve things? #conda #pixi

02.08.2025 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œHe came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone.”

13.06.2025 22:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm vibe coding 3D trajectory graphics using #GitHub #Copilot + #Python + #panda3d.

29.05.2025 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Let's talk about #Fortran and why so many people think of it as a old language. Maybe because it started in the 1950s. Or maybe because it doesn’t look like Python.

But here’s the thing: Fortran has evolved.

Today, you can write code such as:

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24.04.2025 10:17 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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GitHub - jacobwilliams/jsonspice: Python library to monkeypatch SpiceyPy to allow JSON kernels Python library to monkeypatch SpiceyPy to allow JSON kernels - jacobwilliams/jsonspice

jsonspice: a #Python library to monkeypatch #SpiceyPy to allow #JSON kernels.
github.com/jacobwilliam...

26.04.2025 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Degenerate Conic | Conda + Fortran

New blog post: #Conda + #Fortran
degenerateconic.com/conda-plus-f...

26.04.2025 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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13.04.2025 18:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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AoC-2024/src/aoc_utilities.F90 at master Β· jacobwilliams/AoC-2024 Advent of Code 2024 with Modern Fortran. Contribute to jacobwilliams/AoC-2024 development by creating an account on GitHub.

There's also an issue in the presented line-by-line approach, where it won't work for lines longer than 512 characters. There needs to be a loop to accumulate the entire line. An example of a better version is the read_line function here: github.com/jacobwilliam...

17.03.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
LLVM Fortran Levels Up: Goodbye flang-new, Hello flang! LLVM has included a Fortran compiler β€œFlang” since LLVM 11 in late 2020. However, until recently the Flang binary was not flang (like clang) but instead flang-new. LLVM 20 ends the era of flang-new.

#Flang #LLVM #Fortran blog.llvm.org/posts/2025-0...

12.03.2025 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Degenerate Conic | Root Finding

New blog post: Root Finding with modern #Fortran. #Brent #Chandrupatla
degenerateconic.com/root-finding...

27.01.2025 03:09 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - jacobwilliams/AoC-2024: Advent of Code 2024 with Modern Fortran Advent of Code 2024 with Modern Fortran. Contribute to jacobwilliams/AoC-2024 development by creating an account on GitHub.

It's almost #AdventOfCode time! Follow my progress here: github.com/jacobwilliam... until I give up and question all my life choices. #Fortran #AOC2024

30.11.2024 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

FYI: the Preview app on macOS is also handy for stuff like this (rotate/crop/move/add/delete) individual pages of a PDF.

30.11.2024 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Where my #Fortran and #Astrodynamics people at?

05.10.2024 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I have arrived!

05.10.2024 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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