I'm Edmund Miller, I'm a PhD
candidate, I have a broad range of interests, primarily in Functional Genomics. Through that
interest I got into bioinformatics after realizing I didn't have golden hands at the bench
during undergrad. That taste of programming experience got me dabling in writing smart
contracts and web apps and I cut my teeth on that. Through my research experience I aquired a
taste for processing data with workflows of the reproducible and high-throughput varietal. I
saw the light in March 2020 when I found nf-core and tossed aside
the reptilian workflow manager for Nextflow. I love a
good crossover episode of technologies and I'm always trying to push to the envelope.
In the hours following the release of CVE-2025-0725 for the project curl, site reliability workers
and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a buffer overflow involving malformed gzip str…
Good news: it appears that Jack Dorsey’s FOSDEM talk has been cancelled!
This is a follow up to two earlier posts, which you can read here: one and
two.
I say it “appears” so, because there has been no official statement from anyone
to that effect. There has …