Meta Rabbit – Rabbit goes meta(genomics)

Because it’s what the cool kids are doing.
WordPress is too sluggish: it took >20 seconds to get this editor window to load (slow Chinese internet, but still). Since Substack is now also doing RSS & all the other stuff, I think it’s a good platform and I am moving there....

This post describes grit, which is an vaporware alternative interface to git (grit does not exist).
There are a few alternative interfaces to git, but they typically make the same mistake: they reason that git is complex because it supports many workflows that are only rarely useful, while 10% of the functionality would fill the needs of 90% of the...

Heavy on Twitter this week
Wholphins are a cross between a whale a dolphin (although, not really): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wholphin
Very good Twitter thread on the Chinese language Latin

https://medium.com/@leonidtiokhin/honest-signaling-in-academic-publishing-2de253b50ae5 the journal process is bad? Time for some game theory!
https://www.audubon.org/news/no-its-not-actually-murder-crows — Seems that there are no actual instances of people saying a murder of crows to refer to a flock of crows...