I got a little carried away making interactive plots using native SVG features. Then @jpelbers.bsky.social asked if it could run DOOM. It was probably a joke...but I took it as more of a challenge.
Anyway.
kuva doom -o doom.svg
Fully playable and fully contained DOOM inside an SVG
kuva v0.2.0
Now over 60 plots!
New plot types:
Gantt, Network, Waffle, Horizon, PopulationPyramid, Joint, Clustermap, ROC, PR, Lollipop, Survival, Raincloud, Slope, Venn, Parallel, Mosaic, Streamgraph, Radar, Treemap, Sunburst, Bump, Funnel, Rose, Calendar, Legend, Text
github.com/Psy-Fer/kuva
🧬 Repeat expansions cause 50+ monogenic disorders and many workflows miss them.
🔬 See how we developed a PCR-free hybrid capture with Trinity™ to retain representation of repetitive loci, enabling accurate genotyping at these expansions on short-read platforms.
Poster here: https://bit.ly/4oFuPZo
kuva v0.3.0 release!
- New raster backend: faster than the old one, dropped dep.
- New QuiverPlot type
- Pre-compiled release binaries (thanks
@wdecoster.bsky.social
)
- .parquet input for all CLI subcommands
Also lots of fixes and other features
crates.io/crates/kuva
github.com/Psy-Fer/kuva
On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.
inquiSTR: a toolkit for accurate and efficient population-scale tandem repeat genotyping and analysis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.09.731080v1
The registration deadline for the Flanders Nanopore Day with @nanoporetech.com is quickly approaching, and the program suggests it will be an amazing event! All information is available at nanoporeflanders.be
The year is 2026. It is now easier to vibe-rewrite a Python tool in Rust than to figure out how to get the dependencies installed.
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
