@gawbul.io
Dad, husband, and PhD 🧑🧑🧒🧒👨🏻🎓 Scientist, technologist, and engineer 👨🔬📱👨💻 Bibliophile 📚 Philomath 🤓 Mental health advocate 💚 Passionate about #bioinformatics, #computing, #evolution, #genomics, #medicine, and #sre 🧬🩺💻 Homepage: https://www.gawbul.io
Rust 1.94.0 has been released! 🌈 🦀✨
A few highlights are array_windows() and element_offset() on slices, Peekable::next_if_map(), LazyCell::get and friends, and the new `include` key in config.toml to include other toml files!
Check out the blog post for details: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/05/R...
$ go install golang.org/dl/go1.26.1@latest $ go1.26.1 download Downloaded 0.0% ( 0 / 64661384 bytes) ... Downloaded 50.0% (32330692 / 64661384 bytes) ... Downloaded 100.0% (64661384 / 64661384 bytes) Unpacking go1.26.1.linux-riscv64.tar.gz ... Success. You may now run 'go1.26.1' $ go1.26.1 version go version go1.26.1 linux/riscv64
🎉 Go 1.26.1 and 1.25.8 are released!
🔏 Security: Includes security fixes for the standard library (CVE-2026-25679, CVE-2026-27137, CVE-2026-27138, CVE-2026-27139, CVE-2026-27142).
📢 Announcement: groups.google.com/g/golang-ann...
📦 Download: go.dev/dl/#go1.26.1
#golang
Not quite ready to launch, but if you're a decentralized identity and/or AT proto nerd, you might want to take an early peek at this freeq.at
Excited to build cutting-edge web tools for genomic research? Join us at @ensembl.org as a Web Developer. Apply here: www.ensembl.info/2026/03/04/...
Closing date: 25th March 2026
The results of the 2025 State of Rust Survey are now available! 📊
blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/02/2...
it's almost time for SRECon26, which means it's been less than a year since @ferd.ca and i were delivering the closing keynote at SRECon25.
my perspective has changed A LOT since then, and the advice i would give has changed too. i wrote it up here.
charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/my-hypothe...
Claude Sonnet 4.6 really likes drawing top hats on its pelicans simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/17/...
Exciting opportunity to join our team!
Job: Genomics Technology Infrastructure Team Leader
Please follow the instructions in the ad to apply (www.ensembl.info/2026/02/17/...).
Closing date: 25/03/2026
Rust 1.93.1 has been released.
This point release fixes three regressions that slipped into in Rust 1.93.0: an internal compiler error affecting rustfmt, a false positive in a clippy lint, and an issue with the wasm32-wasip2 target.
See the blog post for details: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/02/12/R...
Ensembl release 116 & Ensembl Genomes release 63 are coming in April 2026!
Read more in our declaration of intentions blog:
www.ensembl.info/2026/02/12/...
From summer 2026, ensembl.org redirects to beta.ensembl.org. Previous versions remain in Ensembl Archives.
$ go install golang.org/dl/go1.26.0@latest $ go1.26.0 download Downloaded 0.0% ( 0 / 63102509 bytes) ... Downloaded 50.0% (31551254 / 63102509 bytes) ... Downloaded 100.0% (63102509 / 63102509 bytes) Unpacking go1.26.0.openbsd-arm64.tar.gz ... Success. You may now run 'go1.26.0' $ go1.26.0 version go version go1.26.0 openbsd/arm64
🎆 Go 1.26.0 is released!
🗒️ Release notes: https://go.dev/doc/go1.26
⬇️ Download: https://go.dev/dl/#go1.26.0
#golang
🎉 Go 1.26 Release Candidate 3 is released!
🔒 Security: Includes an update for crypto/tls (CVE-2025-68121).
🏖 Run it in dev! Run it in prod! File bugs! go.dev/issue/new
📢 Announcement: groups.google.com/g/golang-ann...
⬇️ Download: go.dev/dl/#go1.26rc3
#golang
$ go install golang.org/dl/go1.25.7@latest $ go1.25.7 download Downloaded 0.0% ( 0 / 56776808 bytes) ... Downloaded 50.0% (28388404 / 56776808 bytes) ... Downloaded 100.0% (56776808 / 56776808 bytes) Unpacking go1.25.7.openbsd-arm64.tar.gz ... Success. You may now run 'go1.25.7' $ go1.25.7 version go version go1.25.7 openbsd/arm64
🎊 Go 1.25.7 and 1.24.13 are released!
🔏 Security: Includes a security fix for cmd/cgo (CVE-2025-61732) and an update for crypto/tls (CVE-2025-68121).
🔈 Announcement: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/K09ubi9FQFk/m/oQiZUMk9AQAJ
📦 Download: https://go.dev/dl/#go1.25.7
#golang
Genome Science UK 2026 - SAVE THE DATE 📅
Manchester 14th-16th September 🧬🧬
#Genomics
Photographs of the Festival of Genomics banner and Genome Dome session agenda.
We are at the Festival of Genomics in London! Join #Ensembl at the “Genome Dome” at 16:00 today to learn about latest new genomes and annotations available via beta.ensembl.org
#FOG2026
I have been one of the many people across the world impacted by the sudden death of Peer Bork - a friend, colleague and remarkable scientist. I now have enough time this weekend to write some personal thoughts about Peer. www.linkedin.com/posts/ewan-b...
Rust 1.93.0 has been released! 🌈 🦀✨
This release includes a new musl version for the *-linux-musl targets, adds support for #[cfg] inside asm!(), and adds [T]::as_array, VecDeque::{pop_front_if, pop_back_if}, Vec/String::into_raw_parts, fmt::form_fn, and more! ✨
blog.rust-lang.org/2026/01/22/R...
This is great - it's about time someone updated the discourse on LLM energy usage to reflect that coding agents use massively more prompts than occasional questions to ChatGPT
Simon estimates that a day of coding agent usage comes out close to the energy needed to run a dishwasher
A few quick notes on the Claude "soul document" that was released by Anthropic today under a CC0 public domain license - it's a huge 35,000 token essay used as part of Claude's training to instill core values and help define Claude's personality simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/21/...
The difference between "dev" and "ops" is not about who writes code. It's 2026, dude: everyone writes code.
The difference is a separation of concerns. Are you responsible for writing code to generate revenue, or building the systems for code to run on?
charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/bring-back...
I've come to view the entire DevOps movement as a mighty, twenty-year battle to achieve one thing: a single feedback loop connecting devs with prod.
It failed, but not for lack of trying. It failed because the technology wasn't good enough.
And now it is.
www.honeycomb.io/blog/you-had...
I don't think I've ever shared this here before, so share I must:
www.amazon.com/Subtle-Art-S...
(If you open it up, it just says "No no no no no no no no no" for fifty pages or so. Makes a great Christmas gift!)
🎉 Go 1.25.6 and 1.24.12 are released!
🔐 Security: Includes security fixes for archive/zip, net/http, crypto/tls, cmd/go.
📰 Announcement: groups.google.com/g/golang-ann...
📦 Download: go.dev/dl/#go1.25.6
#golang
🎉 Go 1.26 Release Candidate 2 is released!
🔐 Security: Includes security fixes for archive/zip, net/http, crypto/tls, cmd/go.
🏖 Run it in dev! Run it in prod! File bugs! go.dev/issue/new
📢 Announcement: groups.google.com/g/golang-ann...
📦 Download: go.dev/dl/#go1.26rc2
#golang
A lot of my infra workflows live in Slack threads, docs, or buried in shell history. That sucked.
I've been building Atuin Desktop. Local-first, CRDT-powered, executable runbooks - with integrated terminals, sql queries + monitoring
blog.atuin.sh/atuin-deskto...
Lmk if you have any questions <3
My terminal runs on GAS (Ghostty, Atuin, Starship)
Same here 🙋♂️
We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
📢 I'm hiring! 3-year postdoc in theoretical evolutionary ecology at University of Helsinki 🇫🇮 Apply: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Theoretical-Evolutionary-Biology/1348955157/
#AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter
Photographs of the nine-banded armadillo and common buzzard.
New #GeneAnnotation has been added to #Ensembl Beta, including annotation for Dasypus novemcinctus and Buteo buteo!
You can explore all available species here: beta.ensembl.org/species-sel...
Image credits:
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