Fun article that is highly Mathematica-relevant, being a massive pile of leaky abstractions itself: joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-abstractions

@b3m2a1 Nice article indeed. I'd distinguish leaky abstractions from those which additionally incorporate a lot of sloppy implementations. Unless we are talking only about the core of WL.

@b3m2a1, how much effort will it be to make my own paclet server for internal use? I see you've got a question & answer on it on the main site.

I've also been thinking again about good ways to make my little bug tracker more useable. I forget about it consistently and it's only really backed up by a notebook with a nice interface, while having it stored nicely and also quick to generate a web interface so I can check my bugs and maybe report one.

But I'd like other input on what's important in a bug tracker too.

@KraZug It can be incredibly quick or a little bit involved, depending on what all you're trying to do with it.

Do you want a nice website to go with it like I have for the server I set up publicly? Will something like this suffice: wolframcloud.com/app/objects/b3m2a1.paclets/PacletServer?

If you don't even need a website and just want the server it's even quicker.

I've made a tool to semi-automate some image analysis for someone else in my institution, and I want to source control what version they have ;)

Easy enough to do then. How do you want to do the sharing? Over the web or via Dropbox?

Probably on an internal server within the building

Okay if you don't want a website there are say two different easy ways to do it. The first is to use my Q/A and have the internal tools build it out. I also have some stuff here.

We have a gitlab set up already, although my end-user(possibly users) is outside that

The second is to use some of the automated stuff via BTools

ok, I'll take a look

Here's a script for that (took me a bit to remember the details of this):

$rootDirectory =
  FileNameJoin@{$UserBaseDirectory, "ApplicationData"};
Quiet[CreateDirectory@$rootDirectory];
$serverConfig =
  <|
   "ServerBase" -> $rootDirectory,(* just your root directory *)

      "ServerExtension" ->
    Nothing(*old option that still has some use, but not much *),
   "ServerName" -> "InternalPacletServer",
   (* only for cloud deployment *)
   Permissions -> "Public",
   CloudConnect -> None
   |>;
$nameOfPaclet = "Ems";
PacletServerAdd[$serverConfig, $nameOfPaclet]

thanks

It might not hurt to take a look at the actual details of paclet server deployment, though. It's not particularly hard to do in the specific case.

I will take a look. I don't know whether I'll end up putting anything else up like this, or its just the one app

Easy enough to extend or not at whim. If you want a site at some later date you can use PacletServerBuild to build out a website for it, regardless of what setup mechanism you use.

mostly I want it version controlled on their end, so that it is reproducible (or at least, with all the relevant bits of information it is reproducible, but I can save that).

And if you want to do things like PacletServerAdd["Internal", $nameOfPaclet] you can add a registry to $PacletServers

Oh speaking of it turns out I registered the cloud account "https://www.wolframcloud.com/objects/PacletServer" if anyone wants to use it.

Oh and there's also this: mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/160987/38205

Huh I forgot about so much of this stuff...

Any ideas about this one?

I expect that auto-completion is set up in a special way for system symbols, and I will not have access to this when writing a package.

@Szabolcs Not really generic enough, but I called my (mostly) equivalent function undirectedGraphTriangle

@b3m2a1 yes, that's how I have been using it (with py3)

Given a list and a set of indices for that list, what is the function to drop those? i.e. the inverse to list[[indices]]. I can do it with Complement[Range[Length[list]],indices], but I'm assuming I'm missing something

Delete?

Does anyone have any suggestions for a NeuralNet to extract keywords from text? Thinking of a long list of descriptions for companies where you could isolate the keywords later evaluation.