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Blog post about the state of Python packaging in 2024, with a particular emphasis on how uv is going (and in part rye too).

Given I’m fairly new to AWS, I was surprised to find that S3 has a global namespace. And so of course squatting is a thing.

Blog post talking about the bad take of the author of Pinboard. Pretty much the thing that pushed me over the edge on migrating off Pinboard.

Helpful answer on stackoverflow that outlines out to squish down migrations in a Django system.

Details of the format of 2bit files

Handy post about switching dependencies when switching branches with git.

Good list of tags that can go in the header section of a web page.

Python library for developing GUI applications

Learn how git works, by writing a git.

Tutorial that aims to get you going with Docker.

Handy things you can do in the console (in Chrome at least).

Good cheatsheet of CSS selectors.

Handy list of IUPAC nucleotide codes.

Handy list of IUPAC nucleotide code along with the complements.

Reddit thread about stock images that contains a reasonable list of sites where royalty-free images can be found.

Interesting DNA sequence visualisation library.

Useful introduction to transcription and translation.

Handy background about DNA Sequencing and sequence assembly.

Good background to making management commands for Django applications, includes information on how you add your own arguments.

Online book that contains a good introduction to Fortran.

Introduction to DNA nucleotides,strands, etc.

Article that describes how DNA is turned into protein sequences.

Short introduction to pairwise alignment using BioPython.

Short article about the unclear history of the MIT licence.

Straightfoward guide to debugging Emacs lisp.

How to indent a region in Emacs, ignoring the current mode's indentation rules. I'm often needing to do this in Python and keep forgetting how.