I recently saw a quote in an email from my Twitter account that caught my attention: “…many people view bioinformatics as a collection of recipe-style solutions to specific tasks, rather than a philosophy of how to do biological data analysis.”  The link took me to a blog by Neil Saunders, who shares his witty and useful “notes from the life of a computational biologist.”  There are several interesting posts, such as:

Make prettier documents by reusing chunks in RMarkdown

Academic Karma: a case study in how not to use open data

There are also slides posted from his talks at the 2015 Bioinformatics FOAM conference, entitled “Online bioinformatics forums why do we keep asking the same questions?” and “Should I be dead? A very personal genomics”