State of the Blog

ChatGPT came out in November 2022 and it has completely changed the Internet. In my post Learning about ChatGPT via ChatGPT I had prompted: "Will ChatGPT replace Google?" to which the model back then outputted: No, it is unlikely that ChatGPT will replace Google or other search engines in the near future. While ChatGPT is…

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14th Anniversary

It has been 14 years since I’ve started this blog and as per tradition, I write a blog post reflecting on stuff. It’s a loose tradition since some years I didn’t write anything. When I do write, it’s usually about something new I’ve learned and/or started practising since the last anniversary post. Recently, I’ve been…

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The things that matter

I recently learned of the WTFPL licence and was reading the FAQ (link no longer works) to learn a bit more about it. I came to the "But profanity is offensive!" section and while reading it it made me reflect about the things that really matter to me in life. The last few years have…

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Maintaining a (bioinformatics) blog

A lot of the well known bioinformatics blogs are no longer maintained. I recently came across a blog post that talked about blogging and how it was possible to actively maintain a blog for over 10 years. I discovered the blog when I learned of the book Building reproducible analytical pipelines with R, which also…

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