Question: How many things have ya made

Guy Rixon answered on 2 Mar 2018:

Big things:

– One data-reduction pipeline for space-telescope data.

– One high-level control-system for a family of large telescopes.

– Twenty or so web services for sharing astronomy data on-line.

– A “virtual data-centre” for sharing basic physics-data on-line.

These are all large projects that each took years and many people were involved in their making. That’s how it goes with space telescopes: nothing is small and nothing is quick. I’ve written quite a lot of small programs for astronomy along the way.