Cmdliner

Cmdliner

@yemithedev ·

  • I write about the systems I build, the sequences I can’t stop thinking about, and whatever else needs saying.
  • Mostly engineering. Sometimes bioinformatics. Occasionally, poetry.
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Cmdliner@yemithedev

Spent the afternoon aligning sequences by hand to understand what the scoring matrix actually claims.

The textbook version is a fine start. It is not the whole story.

Jul 27, 2026read more →
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Book Recommendations

Technical books, and whatever I’m reading for the plot.

The Name of the Wind

Patrick Rothfuss

Defending Elysium

Brandon Sanderson

Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus

Barbara Park

Eloquent JavaScript

Marijn Haverbeke

The Way of Kings

Brandon Sanderson

Dune

Frank Herbert

Yellowface

R.F. Kuang

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

David Flanagan

Mistborn: The Final Empire

Brandon Sanderson

The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives

Lola Shoneyin

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python

Al Sweigart

The Shadow of What Was Lost

James Islington

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

Damilare Kuku

The Rust Programming Language

Steve Klabnik & Carol Nichols

Age of Swords

Michael J. Sullivan

++Recent Writing
Bioinformatics11 min read

RNA Interference, the Long Way Round

A change in a Ct value in an R script turned into a real detour, through the central dogma, sickle cell disease, and a hypothetical way to use RNA interference to treat it.

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