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Tricks of the Trade

Tricks of the Trade

Here are some useful snippets, tools and tricks that we have come across and think might come in handy.

How to install Underworld on Mac OSX (Apple Silicon M1)

How to install Underworld on Mac OSX (Apple Silicon M1)

The new generation of Apple Mac comes with the new Apple Silicon (M1) chip which has an Arm architecture (as opposed to the older generation that had i386 Intel processor). This brings all manner of troubles and requirements for the development of codes.

How to build Conda packages?

How to build Conda packages?

As mentioned, packages can be installed directly from our conda channel. You may however want to build your own package at some point in the future or you may want to fix some of ours by submitting a Pull Request on github (You are more welcome to do so...) The

Getting started with Pull requests

Getting started with Pull requests

Version control systems and online-communities such as Github have made contributing to the development of opensource software incredibly easy. That is assuming that people get over their initial fear of sharing their code! In this short blog post I go through how to submit a pull request to one of

Australian Seismometers in Schools - Noise monitoring dashboard

Australian Seismometers in Schools - Noise monitoring dashboard

How we built a simple dashboard using Github actions with open source software and openly available (FAIR) data.

An automated (zotero) bibliography in a webpage

An automated (zotero) bibliography in a webpage

How we added an auto-updating set of citations to underworld in our publications [https://www.underworldcode.org/publications-using-uw/] webpage. We need to curate all the publications that we can find that use the underworld [https://www.underworldcode.org/intro-to-underworld/] geodynamics code and provide this information on our website. To avoid