Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• Specifying a custom endpoint URL when using AWS SDK with Ceph (an S3 compatible storage platform)

  Posted on:July 30, 2023 |  at 07:05 PM

  A long-standing feature request has been implemented in the latest AWS CLI! If you use the AWS tools with non-Amazon services (e.g. Ceph, etc.), you had to specify the endpoint URL on the command line -- for every command. It's the litte things!

• How to enable Neovim undo, backup, and swap files when switching Linux groups

  Posted on:March 18, 2023 |  at 08:44 PM

  Neovim's powerful undo, backup, and swap files are usually stored in your `${HOME}` dir, but switching Linux groups via `newgrp` causes permission errors. Here is how to configure it!

• How to install python package into specific directory without root privileges

  Posted on:January 12, 2023 |  at 09:15 PM

  Installing Python packages with pip to a shared or public directory (e.g. HPC cluster) so others can use the tools quickly and easily!

• Parsing the VCF INFO string for key=value pairs with R tidyverse tools

  Posted on:December 16, 2022 |  at 09:57 PM

  Safely splitting all of the INFO tags into key=value pairs is easy with stringr::str_split() in R. And tidyr::unnest() can magically create new columns from all the key names!