Today’s time-wasting issue was creating a Cloud9 environment. I wanted to connect with system manager. I had a VPC handy with a public subnet, and tried to create a Cloud9 environment in the public subnet. However, I could not get it to start. It would always fail to create and tell me my VPC configuration had issues. I created (and destroyed) a handful of VPCs trying to get to the bottom of this.

Happy Towel Day 2024!

I recently came across a link discussing the submission of SARS-CoV-2 sequences to Genbank on December 28, 2019. You can read it all here. In the “background” section a brief description of the sequence of events in the early days is given. After wading through this on my phone screen I wondered if this could be turned into a visual timeline. Could ChatGPT do this for me? The answer is yes, and no.