FIMS Weekly - April 20–24, 2026

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April 20, 2026

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THREE BIG THINGS THIS WEEK

  1. CIE Review is this week!

  2. Bai is working on further designing slow versus fast tests so failures come quickly and informatively. Please reach out to her if you have ideas or want to implement similar testing strategies in your own projects.

  3. Continue to work on the FIMS planning repository.

FIMS ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • There are still empty time slots for taking notes during the CIE Review, please sign up in this Google Doc.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Tuesday, April 21

FIMS CIE Review

Time: 12:00–20:00 E; 9:00–17:00 P; 8:00–16:00 AK; 6:00–14:00 H Location: Virtual Online: Google meet

Wednesday, April 22

FIMS CIE Review

Time: 12:00–20:00 E; 9:00–17:00 P; 8:00–16:00 AK; 6:00–14:00 H Location: Virtual Online: Google meet

Thursday, April 23

FIMS CIE Review

Time: 12:00–20:00 E; 9:00–17:00 P; 8:00–16:00 AK; 6:00–14:00 H Location: Virtual Online: Google meet

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

A recent PR came in that changes our spell checker from the one provided by ghactions4r, which uses {spelling}, to one that uses cspell and does not require installing R. This new action requires fewer words in the WORDLIST and will hopefully be easier to maintain given that we have both snake_case and PascalCase code. Locally, you can use the code below to learn more about cspell and how to check your files for spelling errors.

cspell lint --help