First: Principles

GDB ( https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/  ) is a handy way to debug command line applications. But in the case of applications that are runni...

When someone creates a document they'll possibly set up a table of contents which conveniently links to the chapter headings they've...

On occasion when I'm using SSH to connect to a remote server, I run an application that hangs. If the terminal's running inside a GU...

In doing some testing with GATK 4 , I found myself in need of downloading files from Google Cloud. Google Cloud likes to use URL's that...

Github is putting some thought into what happens to to your repositories if you're "unable" to manage them - a kind way of say...

So this image shows rate of increase of the number of cases on a daily basis. It's not as smooth as I would like.

Say you need to generate a sequence, in C++, simply consisting of the first so many integers, like, 1,2,3,4,5. With a little programming e...

Tips for working with the command line from CLI magic . I like this one to s how all listening TCP/UDP ports for the current user: $ lsof ...

This is a visualization choropleth I put together of Covid-19 infections for each county over time. It's based on the NY Times data set...

A lot of code available that uses BeautifulSoup tells you to call it like so: from beautifulsoup import BeautifulSoup If you'v...

If you're working in a multiple-compiler environment, you may wish to get information at compile time about which compiler you're bu...

A report from the Obama Department of Energy in 2015. https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/05/f22/Enabling%20Wind%20Power%20Nation...

I needed to generate some ultrametric Newick trees for some simulations. There's a nice Newick tree generator online at  http:/Trex/tre...

How to delete empty rows in an Excel spreadsheet: https://www.itsupportguides.com/knowledge-base/office-2016/excel-2016-how-to-delete-empt...

At work I maintain a little Ruby on Rails site. Not a particularly interesting site, just a set of pages of statistics gathered from various...

In January a site went live called  readingroom.info . I suspect due to the timing and the subject matter it was a student project. The idea...

I wrote earlier about Fitnesse and Slim style integration testing. There are only a few commands associated with Slim tables, but the pre...

Fitnesse is a rather nice testing tool. It's been around since what seems like the beginning of the integration testing movement. It...

In our quest to win a million dollars , we're trying to Index the Human Genome . A typical index, like in the back of a book, is compose...

Last time I had decided that to efficiently analyze the reads, we had to make an index of the human genome. So how do we go about that? ...