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.
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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?