Developer http://davep.dev, Emacs addict http://elisp.dev, geek.
Hangs out with bioinformaticians.
This post will cover the most important content of a 2bit file: the actual sequence data itself. In the first post I wrote about the format of the file's header, and in the second post I wrote about the content of the file's index. At this point that...
As mentioned in the first post, once you've read in the header data for a 2bit file, the next step is to read the index. This is an index into all the different sequences held in the file. Reading the index itself is fairly straightforward. The index...
Introduction I've written a bit before about the value of having simple but interesting "problems", that you know the solution to, as a way of exercising yourself in a new environment. Recently I've added another to the list I already have, and I use...
I first learnt Python back in the mid-to-late 90s, used it in place of Perl once I was comfortable with it, and then we sort of drifted apart when I first met Ruby. It's only in the last couple of years that I've got back into it, and in a huge way, ...
First a small aside: To be honest, the T part of TIL is getting to be less and less true with this series of posts, but the posts themselves serve a useful purpose for me. As I've been reading the book I'm working through, I've also been making notes...
This is one of those things, especially this little play to help appreciate the feature, that I'm filing under "kinda cool, but I am never doing this in production". So Swift has operator overriding, and then some. Moreover, operators are, in effect,...
Earlier this week something in my development environment, relating to Homebrew, Python, pyenv and pipenv, got updated and broke a handful of repositories. Not in a way that I couldn't recover from, just in a way that was annoying, got in the way of ...
This is something I've being meaning to do for a couple or so years now, and unsurprisingly it's bubbled up again recently: the business of swapping the name of the master branch in git out for something better. Because it's one of those jobs that's ...
My leisurely journey into getting to know Swift by reading and then making notes to myself in my blog continues, and this weekend I encountered defer. As I was reading about Swift I did keep wondering when something like try (it has try), catch (it h...
