@samstudio8.bsky.social
professional button pusher for your favourite long read company. i did not write samtools. once made a nice database for a consortium you've never heard of.
tat tinkerer, bug hunter, burger flipper. moving files is my passion.
tat tinkerer, bug hunter, burger flipper. moving files is my passion.
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I don't think children should have phones. They should have huge beige desktop computer with "Windows 9x Operating System", "Dedicated 3D accelerator", and "SoundBlaster compatible sound card"
August 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I don't think children should have phones. They should have huge beige desktop computer with "Windows 9x Operating System", "Dedicated 3D accelerator", and "SoundBlaster compatible sound card"
i get a dylib error when running wget and my system python interpreter hangs indefinitely, truly thinking different
a man is carrying a bag in front of a no parking sign
Alt: a man throwing a computer in to a dumpster
media.tenor.com
August 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
i get a dylib error when running wget and my system python interpreter hangs indefinitely, truly thinking different
a 27 thousand line perl script is doing the rounds, i for one am thrilled to see bioinformatics is healing. we are heading back to the good old days
August 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
a 27 thousand line perl script is doing the rounds, i for one am thrilled to see bioinformatics is healing. we are heading back to the good old days
web apps that dont support the back button just need to get in the fucking bin
August 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
web apps that dont support the back button just need to get in the fucking bin
immeasurable rage as i once again load my tickets to discover the UI of JIRA has changed irrecoverably. i lament modern software
July 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
immeasurable rage as i once again load my tickets to discover the UI of JIRA has changed irrecoverably. i lament modern software
Cute OSM moment: hunting for a local "monument" that I could not spot on streetside photography led me to discover a plaque and tree commemorating the town's first cinema in 1911
June 28, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Cute OSM moment: hunting for a local "monument" that I could not spot on streetside photography led me to discover a plaque and tree commemorating the town's first cinema in 1911
get telegraf'd
June 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
get telegraf'd
- gets new sensors
- tries to set up new influx bucket
- realises they are still on influx 1
- discovers there is now an influx 3 to worry about instead
- tries to set up new influx bucket
- realises they are still on influx 1
- discovers there is now an influx 3 to worry about instead
June 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
- gets new sensors
- tries to set up new influx bucket
- realises they are still on influx 1
- discovers there is now an influx 3 to worry about instead
- tries to set up new influx bucket
- realises they are still on influx 1
- discovers there is now an influx 3 to worry about instead
remember when searching the internet worked, that was a cool time
April 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
remember when searching the internet worked, that was a cool time
"this appears to be a bug in both JDK 17 and JDK 21" is probably the most cursed resolution i have had to write so far this year
April 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
"this appears to be a bug in both JDK 17 and JDK 21" is probably the most cursed resolution i have had to write so far this year
happy monday
may all your jira tickets be well defined
may all your jira tickets be well defined
April 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
happy monday
may all your jira tickets be well defined
may all your jira tickets be well defined
a blast from the past: happy birthday to majora, deployed on this day five years ago. on its first day it was populated with metadata for over 3000 covid genomes and kicked off a pipeline to homogenise them into the first cog-uk dataset.
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
CLIMB-COVID: continuous integration supporting decentralised sequencing for SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance - Genome Biology
In response to the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in the UK, the COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium was formed to rapidly sequence SARS-CoV-2 genomes as part of a national-scale genomic surveillanc...
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
a blast from the past: happy birthday to majora, deployed on this day five years ago. on its first day it was populated with metadata for over 3000 covid genomes and kicked off a pipeline to homogenise them into the first cog-uk dataset.
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
does anyone even use the virtual contact file format any more
April 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
does anyone even use the virtual contact file format any more
happy nanoversary to me! i had totally forgotten that three years ago today i started my nanopore adventure by testing positive for covid and isolating in my office
April 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
happy nanoversary to me! i had totally forgotten that three years ago today i started my nanopore adventure by testing positive for covid and isolating in my office
any sata nerds know if it is expected that a bunch of new sata drives don't report activity indication via pin 11? i've replaced some old drives in my nas and i've lost my blinky lights!
March 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM
any sata nerds know if it is expected that a bunch of new sata drives don't report activity indication via pin 11? i've replaced some old drives in my nas and i've lost my blinky lights!
today i painfully discovered sff-8087 cables are directional
March 13, 2025 at 8:24 PM
today i painfully discovered sff-8087 cables are directional
BRING SPLASH SCREENS BACK COWARDS
Some splash screens of Microsoft Coffee...had it been a real product.
January 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
BRING SPLASH SCREENS BACK COWARDS
i refuse to believe this was five years ago already
Five years ago (Saturday 11 Jan 2020), first public announcement and availability of a sequence of the new coronavirus.
It was posted by @eddieholmes.bsky.social at 01:05 UTC on Virological, and announced on Twitter at 01:08 UTC. ▫️1/
web.archive.org/web/20200118...
archive.is/z880d
It was posted by @eddieholmes.bsky.social at 01:05 UTC on Virological, and announced on Twitter at 01:08 UTC. ▫️1/
web.archive.org/web/20200118...
archive.is/z880d
![screenshot of Eddie Holmes' tweet:
@edwardcholmes
All, an initial genome sequence of the coronavirus associated with the Wuhan outbreak is now available at Virological.org here: [link to virological]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yqxcc5ayxllwkvel4narbha4/bafkreif5tqxzjq4jcbdixilkvf74b626h34s2voszstutwib2wgtk5wkqa@jpeg)
January 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
i refuse to believe this was five years ago already
i really thought the fax machine was going to be involved in my adult life
January 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
i really thought the fax machine was going to be involved in my adult life
"Teach our algorithm what you like"
welcome to blueksy
the machine must feed
welcome to blueksy
the machine must feed
December 31, 2024 at 2:21 PM
"Teach our algorithm what you like"
welcome to blueksy
the machine must feed
welcome to blueksy
the machine must feed
salutations felines
a hello kitty doll is walking down a street with the word real written on it .
ALT: a hello kitty doll is walking down a street with the word real written on it .
media.tenor.com
December 31, 2024 at 2:19 PM
salutations felines