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Luis Pedro Coelho

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Porting NGLess from Haskell to Rust with Claude

The context

NGLess is a domain-specific language for next-generation sequencing (NGS) data, with a focus on metagenomics1. A complete script is short:

ngless "1.6"
input = fastq('sample.fq.gz')
input = preprocess(...
4 days ago
1

Uncommon Ground.

We’ve all played some silly ice-breaker games at work or school. A few years ago, I played a decent one, but halfway through I realised that there was a better way to do it. With Claude, I implemented it and we ran it as part of the SEARCHE...

18 days ago
1

Links. Tweets. Photo (August 2026)

Links

  • The creation of instant coffee. What I found most interesting was not the historical perspective, but that innovation continues almost to this day.

  • I have a soft spot for reading about fraud. I love this detail: “He neede...

21 days ago
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Links. Tweets (June 2026)

Links

  • I’m Not Crazy, I’m Just Becoming an Orthodox Jew

  • An Indonesian “researcher” faked a number of studies and traveled to Denmark to present them under different assumed names by changing hijabs between presentations (/ht @Mi...

2 months ago

The text is not the paper

None of the below are strict rules, they are cultural norms and practices.

This was motivated by last week’s discussion on authorship and responsibilities. I think that there was a lot of talking past each other because for some people it...

3 months ago
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