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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We are back with a new blog post: The 2026 AWS #Nextflow Survival Guide My new guide covers a cost-conscious, scalable setup using AWS Batch, local NVMe scratch, S3, IAM least privileges and nf-probe testing. Without relying on the Seqera Platform or Fusion. lpembleton.rbind.io/posts/the-20...

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The 2026 AWS Nextflow Survival Guide – Luke Pembleton

An updated guide to setting up Nextflow on AWS Batch in 2026 without fusion

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

After many years of using various incarnations of it in my own #bioinformatics workflows, I've finally packaged up {corner} and released a development version on GitHub. For those moments in #rstats dev when you just want a quick peek at the corner of a table. github.com/lpembleton/corner

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GitHub - lpembleton/corner: Quick, simple, console-width-aware object inspection for R.

Quick, simple, console-width-aware object inspection for R. - lpembleton/corner

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

If you love tinkering with Linux and enjoyed biology and genetics at uni? Come work with us and turn that passion into a career driving #genomics powered breeding. #jobs #bioinformatics seek.co.nz/barenbrug-jobs?jobI Full PD: barenbrug.co.nz/careers

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Barenbrug Jobs in New Zealand, Job Vacancies - Mar 2026 | SEEK

Find your ideal job on SEEK with 2 Barenbrug jobs (1 at Barenbrug) listed in New Zealand. View all the Barenbrug vacancies now with new jobs added daily!

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

🎧💿Now Playing: Weekly Album Spotlight 🔦 Great Gable - Small Fry #WeeklyAlbumSpotlight #Music

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

🎧💿Now Playing: Weekly Album Spotlight 🔦 Inhaler - Open Wide #WeeklyAlbumSpotlight #Music

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

🎧💿Now Playing: Weekly Album Spotlight 🔦 Sumner - Retrograde #WeeklyAlbumSpotlight #Music

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

So here’s my next instalment in my monthly mixtape series of generally new releases but sometimes other discoveries that I have come across in my adventures. Feel free to check it out if you are looking for new music. Volume 25.02 📆💿🎵 #MonthlyMixtape #Music open.spotify.com/playlist/42b...

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Monthly Mixtape #25.02

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

🎧💿Now Playing: Weekly Album Spotlight 🔦 GUS - Taller than the Trees #WeeklyAlbumSpotlight #Music

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

🎧💿Now Playing: Weekly Album Spotlight 🔦 Caleb Hearn - Left on McKinney #WeeklyAlbumSpotlight #Music

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

🎧💿Now Playing: Throwback Thursday Album 🔦 Hozier - Hozier (2014) #ThrowbackThursdayAlbum #Music

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

So here’s my next instalment in my monthly mixtape series of generally new releases but sometimes other discoveries that I have come across in my adventures. Feel free to check it out if you are looking for new music. Volume 25.01 📆💿🎵 #MonthlyMixtape #Music open.spotify.com/playlist/1zb...

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

🎧💿Now Playing: Weekly Album Spotlight 🔦 slenderbodies - the sugar machine #WeeklyAlbumSpotlight #Music

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

🎧💿Now Playing: Throwback Thursday Album 🔦 NOTHING MORE - NOTHING MORE (2014) #ThrowbackThursdayAlbum #Music

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

🎧💿Now Playing: Weekly Album Spotlight 🔦 Max McNown - Night Diving #WeeklyAlbumSpotlight #Music

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

🎧💿Now Playing: Throwback Thursday Album 🔦 Bloc Party - A Weekend In the City (2007) #ThrowbackThursdayAlbum #Music

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

🎧💿Now Playing: Weekly Album Spotlight 🔦 KAWALA - KAWALA Collection #WeeklyAlbumSpotlight #Music

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

🎧💿Now Playing: Throwback Thursday Album 🔦 Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum (2009) #ThrowbackThursdayAlbum #Music

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

🎧💿Now Playing: Weekly Album Spotlight 🔦 Chihei Hatakeyama - Lucid Dreams #WeeklyAlbumSpotlight #Music

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Halfway through a project and I’ve released I probably should have used #Nextflow. I’m sure it was never meant to get this big when I originally planned it out in my head… #bioinformatics

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

🎧💿Now Playing: Throwback Thursday Album 🔦 Powderfinger - Internationalist (1998) #ThrowbackThursdayAlbum #Music

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Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Yes, but can it run Doom? `nextflow run doom` ✅ @nextflow.io (by @jordeu.bsky.social 🌟) github.com/nextflow-io/...

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

🎧💿Now Playing: Weekly Album Spotlight 🔦 Hazlett - Goodbye to the Valley Below (Side B) #WeeklyAlbumSpotlight #Music

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

🎧💿Now Playing: Throwback Thursday Album 🔦 Gizmo Varillas - El Dorado (2017) #ThrowbackThursdayAlbum #Music

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

🎧💿Now Playing: Weekly Album Spotlight 🔦 Cathartic Fall - Cathartic Fall #WeeklyAlbumSpotlight #Music

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

1/🧵 If you follow me, you probably know I annoy you every Sunday with my #WeeklyAlbumSpotlight series — sharing a new album I've been enjoying that week. With 2024 now wrapped up, I put together this collage of all the albums from the year. #music

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

So here’s my next instalment in my monthly mixtape series of generally new releases but sometimes other discoveries that I have come across in my adventures. Feel free to check it out if you are looking for new music. Volume 24.12 📆💿🎵 #MonthlyMixtape #Music open.spotify.com/playlist/1Fv...

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Monthy Mixtape #24.12

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Note to current and soon to be past self: You can never have too many Markdown notes and READMEs in your project folders. Trust me, future you will thank you! #research #programming

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Achieving inbox zero for the new year...

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

🎧💿Now Playing: Throwback Thursday Album 🔦 Sunlounger - Sunny Tales (2008) #ThrowbackThursdayAlbum #Music

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Any recommendations for tools to visualise local #BLAST results? I came across Kablammo which seems to fit the bill, just wondering if there are any others to consider #bioinformatics #genomics kablammo.wasmuthlab.org

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Kablammo

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

🎧💿Now Playing: Weekly Album Spotlight 🔦 Confidence Man - 3AM (LA LA LA) #WeeklyAlbumSpotlight #Music

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

🎧💿Now Playing: Throwback Thursday Album 🔦 DOPE LEMON - Honey Bones (2016) #ThrowbackThursdayAlbum #Music

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

This is what I have added to my .bashrc file alias untar="tar xvf" alias untgz="tar xvzf" alias untargz="tar xvzf" alias unbz2="tar xvjf" #Linux #Bash #bioinformatics

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

🎧💿Now Playing: Weekly Album Spotlight 🔦 Ed Prosek ~ Portair ~ Driftwood Choir - Carry by Hand #WeeklyAlbumSpotlight #Music

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

🎧💿Now Playing: Throwback Thursday Album 🔦 Chris Stapleton - Traveller (2015) #ThrowbackThursdayAlbum #Music

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

🎧💿Now Playing: Weekly Album Spotlight 🔦 FRENSHIP - Leavenworth #WeeklyAlbumSpotlight #Music

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Plant tags should have an icon or info on whether they are toxic or not toxic to pets. Would save me a lot of googling scientific names when I’m at the nursery.

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

🎧💿Now Playing: Throwback Thursday Album 🔦 Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Here (2012) #ThrowbackThursdayAlbum #Music

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Those end of year lab consumable sales emails #science

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

🎧💿Now Playing: Throwback Thursday Album 🔦 Gregory Alan Isakov - The Weatherman (2013) #ThrowbackThursdayAlbum #Music en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wea...

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I don’t know, I just get the feeling I should be cautious about the 5 star reviews on this website 🤣

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

There should be an Olympic event for barefoot speed navigation over a floor of #LEGO

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

So here’s my next instalment in my monthly mixtape series of generally new releases but sometimes other discoveries that I have come across in my adventures. Feel free to check it out if you are looking for new music. Volume 24.11 📆💿🎵 #MonthlyMixtape #Music open.spotify.com/playlist/4yk...

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Monthly Mixtape #24.11

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Has anyone else noticed that after running a compute heavy task on #WSL, the rest of the system remains sluggish and laggy—even with autoMemoryReclaim enabled? Any tips or workarounds?

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

🎧💿Now Playing: Weekly Album Spotlight 🔦 Jeremy Zucker ~ Chelsea Cutler - brent iii #WeeklyAlbumSpotlight #Music

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

🎧💿Now Playing: Throwback Thursday Album 🔦 Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2009) #ThrowbackThursdayAlbum #Music en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgan...

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

🎧💿Now Playing: Weekly Album Spotlight 🔦 CVBZ - Coeur d’Alene #WeeklyAlbumSpotlight #Music

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Luke Pembleton @lwpembleton.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

ahhh the temptation to put on an out-of-office email so that I can just focus on coding... 💻

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