Mar 12, 2020 — crc32c Validation for Google Storage Objects — I recently was working on snakemake and we ran into the issue where a rule reported an unexpected end of file. Since the files were obtained with the Google Storage (GS) remote, this meant that the download had not produced... Read more

Mar 11, 2020 — Needs Love — Have you ever found that learning is most fun when you are working on something that you care about? I’ve most definitely realized over the years that I best learn when I’m working on an actual problem. For much of... Read more

Mar 1, 2020 — GitHub Code Search — I’ve always wanted to create an interface that would make it easy to search all of my public repositories, and in fact, the piping is ready on GitHub pages to allow for this, because you can easily iterate through your... Read more

Feb 29, 2020 — Good First Issues — How do you get involved in research software engineering? Well, either you can come up with your own project (arguably challenging because you depend on yourself for learning), or you find an existing project that already needs some help, and... Read more