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Chloe Fineman

If you watch SNL, you know that Chloe Fineman is hilarious. If you don’t, you have to check out her impression of Timothée Chalamet. After that, you need to check out her Open Door for Architectural Digest. Despite the fact that I will never ever come close to owning let alone stepping foot into one of these homes, I still love seeing the beautiful decor and design. After which, I daydream about how to replicate a particular look—through sourcing items from Facebook Marketplace or Costco—and then give up after realizing the futility of doing so. It’s a cycle that I can’t be alone in. Check out Fineman’s Open Door below, or some of my other favorites including, Troye Sivan and Ricky Martin.

Base Pair

awk

Named after the last initials of its creators—Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan—who of course worked at AT&T’s Bell Labs in the 1970’s, AWK is still an amazing command line scripting language to wrangle text files. If you are a bioinformatician, you know that many data types are in text format and one of the fastest and most reproducible way to manipulate them is with AWK. If you are looking for an AWK primer, I highly recommend checking out this post by Tommy Tang on his six essential AWK lessons.

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