Hi! I'm Jakob, a researcher-programmer working in bioinformatics. I write about scientific programming, mostly about Julia.

Posts

• Julia's new cancellation feature

• Review: Julia trimming for Advent of Code 2025

• The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust

• Asynchronous programming in Julia

• 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?