Hi! I'm Jakob, a researcher-programmer working in bioinformatics. I write about scientific programming, mostly about Julia and Rust. I also sometimes write about cool things in genomics, virology or molecular biology.

Posts

• You probably don't need to validate UTF-8 strings

• A look at the Mojo language for bioinformatics

• Julia's latency: Past, present and future

• What's great about Julia?

• How to optimise Julia code: A practical guide

• In defense of complicated programming languages

• Advent of Code 2021, day 1

• Union vs sum types

• Implementing reverse translation

• What scientists should know about hardware to write fast code

• What's bad about Julia?