First: Principles

On this Giving Tuesday, I heard a plug for a donation from my local public radio station, WFIU. As I was getting out my wallet to send somet...

After having trouble with the Singularity Pull command on a computing cluster, I decided it might be easier to download the image via Docke...

Rather than explicitly including a header file in every source file, I like to use gcc's - include flag to add a config.h file, a file h...

Had occasion to install Julia  on a multi-user system today. I downloaded the tarball to my own directory and ran Make. The instructions say...

Conflicts between Linux permissions and Windows permissions are a perennial problem for people who switch back and forth between WSL and Win...

The capabilities model allow an institution to evaluate how well it supports various data and research requirements. https://carcc.org/2020/...

This is an invaluable tutorial on how to use the Gremlin query language to get results from a graph database. For some reason, all the inter...

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...