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Pascal @killercup.de · 24/09/2026

Super awesome release! I previously used `wide` for some SIMD stuff but it didn't really deliver what I (a novice at vector instruction crimes) needed.

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Pascal @killercup.de · 06/09/2026

Do I have to bring slides?

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Pascal @killercup.de · 03/09/2026

@skyrdle.com are you down? 😮I finally have time to play again

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Pascal @killercup.de · 27/08/2026

Very cool! Just yesterday I was finding myself with enough time (while running hap.py) to wonder if someone made a rust version yet. Cool to see your improvements and basepair mode on top!

Pascal @killercup.de · 25/08/2026

Please give it a try if you're in the field :) Rastair works for both TAPS and 5base, it's really really fast, and even faster if you use `--gpu`! I test this on my laptop and a whole 70x sample is just slow enough enough for a nice coffee break

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Pascal @killercup.de · 25/08/2026

We also now moved the repo over to github… weird move in 2026, I know, but bitbucket wasn't better and now people can at least file issues a little nicer.

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Pascal @killercup.de · 06/08/2026

During my summer break, I wanted to build a little app for myself to save article links and read their content. It's a bit more complex. I wrote up my ideas and what my current version does here: deterministic.space/readleif.html

deterministic.space

Readleif

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Pascal @killercup.de · 17/07/2026

So far I only added what we needed in our use of rastair :) I’ll have a look at FASTQ support when I’m back from vacation

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Pascal @killercup.de · 26/06/2026

I scored 793 in moo jump on mu! Can you beat it? hello.mu.social/play/793

hello.mu.social

I scored 793 in moo jump

Can you beat my score on mu?

Pascal @killercup.de · 25/06/2026

Mastodon, with account handles having two @s, should immediately follow up and start using "Log in with @@"

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Pascal @killercup.de · 24/06/2026

Is there any read later app that you use that has good text-to-speech? (Maybe also one that is fast, mobile+desktop, and trustworthy)

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Pascal @killercup.de · 24/06/2026

Yeah, I totally get that. Sadly also looks more like a translation than a rewrite, with not very idiomatic code. Curious to see what’s gonna happen with it

Pascal @killercup.de · 24/06/2026

Yes, i hope it’s not a one-off effort either… I asked since I assumed it would be simpler to add python bindings and make its rust API nicer than to first create bindings :)

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Pascal @killercup.de · 20/06/2026

I assume this is more powerful but I have no clue how to set up a good template. I’ve been building with debug symbols but also with mimalloc which seems to confuse it a bit… let’s see if I have to dive into this or if there are summary tools for this

Pascal @killercup.de · 19/06/2026

If the answer is “you’re on a Mac so use Instruments” please send me a tutorial that makes sense for people who don’t use Xcode :D

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Pascal @killercup.de · 19/06/2026

I’ve been using samply to profile Rastair, a CPU heavy #rustlang CLI tool (it also has tracing for logs but it’s not async). I’m wondering if someone already made a better version of this? I want to filter only for my code, see more details (L1 misses), and compare thread loads

Pascal @killercup.de · 19/06/2026

I was sick for a week and it made me catch up on sleep as well as on how urgent my work really is. Can’t recommend it tho cause it sucks ro be sick 😅

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Pascal @killercup.de · 17/06/2026

Waaait what if you add a build dep that hijacks the jobserver pipe and adds random placeholders until ram and cpu are chill? Also for when I need a longer coffee break

Pascal @killercup.de · 15/06/2026

Ohh let me know what sharp edges you find, would be a nice fit for github.com/Softleif/bio... because where we're using this, having CUDA is more likely than having Vulkan… and then the CPU fallback is the same

Pascal @killercup.de · 09/06/2026

Finally updated my MacBook last weekend so that I can use latest Xcode and also experience this os version for a bit before it gets fixed

Pascal @killercup.de · 07/06/2026

Very cool. I’ve been thinking of building an app like instapaper for fun in summer with atproto support. But I was thinking of using the community bookmark lexicon for shares. Why did you decide to go for standard.site instead?

standard.site

Standard.site - One schema. Every platform.

Standard.site provides shared lexicons for long-form publishing on AT Protocol. Making content easier to discover, index, and move across the ATmosphere.

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Pascal @killercup.de · 20/05/2026

Awesome! Did you post anywhere how you’re hosting eurosky? I’m curious :)

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Pascal @killercup.de · 15/05/2026

Amos, I have a business idea, but don’t tell anyone: wanna start a company specializing in cleaning up llm rust rewrites? I’m thinking a cute crab in a janitor outfit as a logo. Not sure how long the business model makes sense for tho

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Pascal @killercup.de · 12/05/2026

Awesome! Yeah it seems you’re doing everything very stream-y :) i basically just put seqair together for my use case so I’m very curious how it fonts in others

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Pascal @killercup.de · 12/05/2026

Very cool! I recently published deterministic.space/seqair.html which uses a columnar buffer pattern and in my testing was quite a bit faster than noodles (but my use case is a variant caller). Maybe it's useful to you :)

deterministic.space

Seqair, my Rust-native take on htslib

This post introduces seqair , a new Rust library for bioinformatics formats I’ve been working on. We’ll look in detail at one of my main design choices here, a columnar store for iterating BAM data, …

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Pascal @killercup.de · 09/05/2026

I’ll give this a try when I have time away from algorithm deep dive! You know I’m sucker for cli and config stuff especially based on reflection :)

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Pascal @killercup.de · 09/05/2026

This is amazing! Way nicer than clap to markdown

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Thanks! Yes, didn’t need a reader yet so there is none :)

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And second post out as well: bsky.app/profile/dete...

add caching of kroki diagrams · killercup/scribbles@9005b10

if anyone else cares about this, here's my local caching solution github.com/killercup/sc...

github.com

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Second post about Seqair, my #rustlang take on htslib. This one is about streaming VCF/BCF writing and type-state/session type APIs! #bioinformatics

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mermaid in rust yet?

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it's super simple to run kroki in docker locally btw, but that only helps me locally, not ci

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Pascal @killercup.de · 04/05/2026

okay so i thought it is really cool how kroki.io has a public api to render diagrams i can call it from hugo templates. but now the api is down and i can't post to my blog because ci needs to call that api to get the diagrams… time to build a cache

kroki.io

Kroki!

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One more #rustlang post! This time on niches for integer ranges using pattern types on nightly!

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Pascal @killercup.de · 03/05/2026

Was contemplating posting the seqair article over the May 1st weekend, assuming nobody would have a look and I’ll just have to repost on Monday/Tuesday. I was wrong :D

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Reposted by Pascal

Tangled @tangled.org · 29/04/2026

If you're leaving GitHub, we'd be very happy to chat! We work remotely, pay top-end of European salaries and are hell bent on building the best code forge ever. We're hiring for one intermediate/senior role right now: jobs.tangled.org/software-eng.... Go, Firecracker, distributed systems.

jobs.tangled.org

Software Engineer, Platform · jobs at tangled

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Pascal @killercup.de · 03/05/2026

Wow, that's fantastic news! I'm in the process of refining the API and fixing some issues I've seen with CRAM performance, before doing a proper 0.1 release. Send me all your feedback :) Feel free to DM me