Notebook

I gave another group meeting today, this time on random arrangements of iLoci. This entry records feedback I received from the group members.

Found a nifty tool for enforcing formatting styles for C code.

I tried out the Atom text editor very soon after it came out. For some reason--whether a half-hearted attempt on my part, or the fact that Atom was an unrefined beta--I didn't love it. After only a day or two, I reverted to the Komodo Edit editor I had been comfortable with for several years.

Recently, I heard a colleague …

Roundup of links from the last week's worth of interesting reads.

Roundup of links from the last week's worth of interesting reads.

Roundup of links to interesting Christmas/New Year holiday reads.

Roundup of links to interesting reads from the last couple of weeks.

I stumbled across the following question the other day in an email digest from Quora.

I have 5 years of working experience, but I still code very slow. How can I code faster? What should I learn?

Most of the responses don't answer the question directly, but instead make the point that speed is a very poor metric by which …

The UNIX shell is an indispensible tool for project organization and data management in bioinformatics. I spend a lot of time in the shell, and having picked up on a lot of time-saving techniques over the years it might just be my favorite computing environment.

The shell has its limitations, however. Piping, the very feature that gives the shell its …

Nifty trick for filtering stderr in the middle of a shell pipeline.