Try This Half‑Brown Rice for Perfect Springy Texture
Some of the best rice I've ever tried cooking with. I highly recommend it. Its right in between white rice and brown rice, where bran is removed but germ remains. Springy bite and ideal in so many ways. Wash 5x till water runs almost clear. 1 cup water to 1 cup rice. Simmer 10min https://t.co/dVZNDqwJg6
Plasma Balls Offer New Canvas for Shaping Art
Plasma ball as a medium for artistic expression is pretty cool. I hope they include magnets or electromagnets for some plasma shaping. So many ways one can express themselves in art.
Questioning CDC's Current Primer Design Standards and Tools
Jokes aside, what's the current CDC protocol for primer design? Are they using Primer3? Are they using a modern thermodynamic model? Still with that GC clamp juju? I keep hearing primer issues being brought up but thats practically solved...
Code Contributions Need Built‑in Robustness, Not Just MVP
Force-feeding Claude Code strange edge cases and attack surfaces to consider bc it doesnt seem to spot them automatically will hopefully be ironed out soon. Ideally robustness and hardening should be the default of any code contribution yet it seems...
Biologists Demand $400K+ Salaries for Custom LLM Work
Anyone asking biologists to spend time training their custom LLMs need to pay them at least $400K+/yr and significant stake in company. No way in hell is your billion dollar pharma startup gonna short change the engines of your success. Extremely...
Finally, a Seamless Golden Braid Plasmid Editor
This is all I wanted from a plasmid editor: a way to quickly run Golden Braid cloning using parts from my library, with overhang sanity checks. I have not found a single tool that made it this easy. No visual...
Two Weeks Left, SpliceCraft 1.0 Near Completion
Exactly 14 days until I need to finish version 1.0 of SpliceCraft. Racing against my SnapGene annual bill; making gooood progress. 🤖🛠
Building and Flying Your Own Plane: Ultimate DIY Thrill
I love that im not the only weirdo risking it all on tools they made themselves lol. Nothing like the thrill of flying a plane you built from scratch.
AI‑Created Bio Designs Lack Expert Oversight
bioslop (noun) - biological molecules and/or designs made by Ai without the oversight or review of a subject matter expert or specialist LLM
Censoring Nuclear Designs Ignores Publicly Accessible Patents
@p_maverick_b now they wanna sensor nuke design as if the papers and patents are not easily searchable. Same vibe as the agent refusal for bio. This is getting silly...
Building New Tools Is Valid Even When Alternatives Exist
I've never been a fan of the argument of "why build y if x already exists?" That's a silly stance to hold. "Why do people keep making new car brands? We got plenty of cars on the road already..." I'm gonna make...
Ensuring Backups Prevent Patch‑induced Data Loss
Shoring up user data protections to prevent any future updates from nuking plasmid collections or other user input data. Backups and copies of everything. Hardened, sanitized, and secure. My nightmare scenario is for a user to tell me latest patch...
Industrial Microbiome: Affordable Year-Long Service for $75
Industrial microbiome products are a slept-on sector of the bioeconomy. A year supply for $75. Microbes as a Service. https://t.co/aWyLZ00qMM
Fine‑tuned DNA Model Achieves Precise Basepair
I spent some time getting the right spacing to accurately model a DNA molecule in basepair length. Almost dialed it in; rotating about its length axis. Will make better :)
Unexpected Blackouts Force Emergency Freezer Battery Backup
Gotta love sudden unannounced neighborhood-wide blackouts. Time to scramble to hook up battery backup to my freezers...