Lee Katz @lskatz.github.io · 08/09/2026I'll do one more. Fasten is now just about as fast as trusted unix utilities for sorting sequences. Original vs new version of Fasten. 100
Lee Katz @lskatz.github.io · 08/09/2026Fasten got much faster at regular expressions. Check out this comparison from before vs now 100
Lee Katz @lskatz.github.io · 08/09/2026Kmer counting is another massive speedup. Original vs new. Fasten actually performs faster than Jellyfish. 100
Lee Katz @lskatz.github.io · 08/09/2026Here is the original read cleaning speed vs the new read cleaning speed. As compared to seqtk, fasten now performs in the same magnitude. 100
Lee Katz @lskatz.github.io · 25/04/2026What's in the box: • Class / club / sports / staff pages • Auto profile pages per person • Photo galleries with people-tagging • Name search • Superlatives, year-in-review, autographs • Print-to-PDF • Auto image resize + EXIF stripping 110
Lee Katz @lskatz.github.io · 25/04/2026Adding a kid is one entry in a YAML file and a photo named jane-smith.jpg. Then list jane-smith under whatever class, club, or sports team she's in. A profile page is auto-generated, listing every group she's in. 110
Lee Katz @lskatz.github.io · 25/04/2026My wife volunteers on the school yearbook committee, working in a proprietary web tool. Watching her, I got curious: what if a yearbook was just a Git repo? So I built one as a Jekyll template. lskatz.github.io/yearbook-tem... 110
Lee Katz @lskatz.github.io · 02/03/2026Huge blind spot on #riskyornot! @benchapmanncsu.bsky.social @bugcounter.bsky.social 130
Lee Katz @lskatz.github.io · 21/10/2025I'm also producing some benchmarks shown here. Fasten isn't the fastest in every instance, but I am proud to show where it ranks among similar tools. These benchmarks are being produced with every `git push`. github.com/lskatz/faste... 110
Lee Katz @lskatz.github.io · 30/08/2025I love your feedback for the podcast but maybe this one is one of the best #microbinfie 160
Lee Katz @lskatz.github.io · 28/04/2025This was inspired by the awesome energy at last year’s microbiome hackathon: github.com/microbio-hac... 💡 @chaoranchen.de @happykhan.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy and Julian Paganini (can't find Julian's username at the moment) 100
Lee Katz @lskatz.github.io · 11/12/2024I was reminiscing about when Kate Winslet visited CDC, and so I went back in my CDC email to 2011. She visited to discuss what being an epidemiologist was like with the famous Anne Shuchat. To my knowledge, she never entered a real BSL4. 041
Lee Katz @lskatz.github.io · 28/11/2024I paired it with an amazing homemade apple pie (made by a friend) 020
Lee Katz @lskatz.github.io · 28/11/2024Super proud of the ice cream turkey we brought to Thanksgiving this year news.baskinrobbins.com/news/baskin-... 130
Lee Katz @lskatz.github.io · 14/10/2024Lindsay Parnell giving the mycotics talk from CDC at #asmngs 020
