Kai Blin
@kblin.bsky.social
Microbiology PhD, co-author of antiSMASH, Open Source geek, views are my own. @kblin@scholar.social
Not the first time, it seems.
October 27, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Not the first time, it seems.
Not meaning to brag, but….
July 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Not meaning to brag, but….
Is this a sign that I should be using DuckDB more?
May 9, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Is this a sign that I should be using DuckDB more?
Unhappy monitoring is unhappy.
April 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Unhappy monitoring is unhappy.
Looks like my blocklist saved me from having to figure out if @amyhoy.bsky.social was being sarcastic before I had a coffee.
April 8, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Looks like my blocklist saved me from having to figure out if @amyhoy.bsky.social was being sarcastic before I had a coffee.
Some prototyping to try and fix a broken hook for my bike bag. The part can easily be removed, but you can’t seem to buy replacement parts. 3D printing to the rescue. This is the most complicated part I’ve tried to model so far, because it’s rounded everywhere and getting measurements is hard.
March 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Some prototyping to try and fix a broken hook for my bike bag. The part can easily be removed, but you can’t seem to buy replacement parts. 3D printing to the rescue. This is the most complicated part I’ve tried to model so far, because it’s rounded everywhere and getting measurements is hard.
The colours are amazing! Glad I woke up for this!
March 19, 2025 at 6:45 AM
The colours are amazing! Glad I woke up for this!
For some more background:
February 6, 2025 at 10:53 AM
For some more background:
If you're in Tübingen, Germany, next week and are looking for a fun thing to do in the evening, why not come see me play the bad guy in "Phantom of the Space Opera". The shows at 8 PM on weeknights and 5 PM on Saturday are 8€.
February 6, 2025 at 10:45 AM
If you're in Tübingen, Germany, next week and are looking for a fun thing to do in the evening, why not come see me play the bad guy in "Phantom of the Space Opera". The shows at 8 PM on weeknights and 5 PM on Saturday are 8€.
Well, I did get a Switch.
December 25, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Well, I did get a Switch.
As I went to throw out the pumpkin before it started to ooze, I noticed that apart from spots of mould, there were also spots of red. Had to get the kid to school, so I didn't get a sample. To me, it looks like a bacterial prodigiosin producer, but no inhibition of the mould. Any guesses?
November 12, 2024 at 5:40 AM
As I went to throw out the pumpkin before it started to ooze, I noticed that apart from spots of mould, there were also spots of red. Had to get the kid to school, so I didn't get a sample. To me, it looks like a bacterial prodigiosin producer, but no inhibition of the mould. Any guesses?
Collected this great batch of mushrooms in minutes, yummy.
Seriously, these look like Agaricus xanthodermus, based on how they stain yellow if you break them, so they're not for eating. Just needed to get them off my lawn.
Seriously, these look like Agaricus xanthodermus, based on how they stain yellow if you break them, so they're not for eating. Just needed to get them off my lawn.
September 28, 2024 at 1:18 PM
Collected this great batch of mushrooms in minutes, yummy.
Seriously, these look like Agaricus xanthodermus, based on how they stain yellow if you break them, so they're not for eating. Just needed to get them off my lawn.
Seriously, these look like Agaricus xanthodermus, based on how they stain yellow if you break them, so they're not for eating. Just needed to get them off my lawn.
We hit an #antiSMASH milestone just in time for my talk on about an hour: 2 million jobs processed on the public web service, in a little under 15 years of its existence.
I’m super happy to have the opportunity to build a tool that turned out to be so useful to the community.
I’m super happy to have the opportunity to build a tool that turned out to be so useful to the community.
September 22, 2024 at 6:29 AM
We hit an #antiSMASH milestone just in time for my talk on about an hour: 2 million jobs processed on the public web service, in a little under 15 years of its existence.
I’m super happy to have the opportunity to build a tool that turned out to be so useful to the community.
I’m super happy to have the opportunity to build a tool that turned out to be so useful to the community.
No matter how good your article might be, if your cover image is generated crap like this, I'll pass. If you don't care enough to not have Domain Nme on your DNS article, I don't care enough to read it.
![Clearly AI generated jumble of vaguely computer-looking things, with "DNS" in large letters and "domain nme" [sic.] in slightly smaller letters.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jgqnxeupqtx5s7oylodxemtg/bafkreid57s3cocyy5uddcf7u564c4nf3vspkt7tujpjxnjtae2atlx62wy@jpeg)
June 16, 2024 at 5:01 PM
No matter how good your article might be, if your cover image is generated crap like this, I'll pass. If you don't care enough to not have Domain Nme on your DNS article, I don't care enough to read it.
Time for some marine biology. No sampling permit, so focusing on observing the macro, not micro.
October 13, 2023 at 8:16 AM
Time for some marine biology. No sampling permit, so focusing on observing the macro, not micro.
Today in "this is a legitimate email, not spam", I present this gem. I keep telling our IT folks that the reason people keep falling for phishing emails isn't that phishing mails are getting better, it's because legitimate emails are getting worse.
October 12, 2023 at 8:54 AM
Today in "this is a legitimate email, not spam", I present this gem. I keep telling our IT folks that the reason people keep falling for phishing emails isn't that phishing mails are getting better, it's because legitimate emails are getting worse.