Hello!
I am a PhD student in the Biological Sciences department at North Dakota State University (NDSU).
I am working in the field of Computational Biology, as a grad student my research is focused on small RNAs (such as piRNA and miRNA) and Transposable Elements.
Here are some tools listed, which I use almost daily for my work:
Programming Tools
- Languages: Python, R, Bash, Go, Odin, and Rust.
- IDEs: Neovim, Helix editor (my daily driver), Zed, and VS Code.
- Terminal: Ghostty ftw!
- Version Control: Currently using GitHub and sr.ht but planning to transition to tangled.sh. Note to my future self: checkout jj vcs.
- Shell & CLI: I love tools like ffmpeg, yt-dlp, sponge (from coreutils), lynx, glow (basically everything Charmbracelet makes), ripgrep, bat, fzf, fd, and Pretzo.
- Note-Taking: Quarto, LaTeX, Typst
Essential Tools
- Diagrams: D2 and Mermaid.
- Remote Work: Termius.
- Reference Management: Zotero & Calibre.
- Other Favorites: Kagi Search, Orion Browser, Ollama, f.lux
- Cool Mac Apps: Folder Peek, Maintainence, TomatoBar, Raycast, ItsyCal, Hazeover, AppCleaner.