Shashank Pritam

Computational biologist

About this site

I use this webpage as a public notebook and bookmarks.

If you have any questions, or just want to chat about science, tech, or anything else, please feel free to schedule a meeting with me here.

Books

Below is a curated list of books and resources I'm currently enjoying (not updated frequently, but I do try to keep it relevant).

Biology & Evolution
A Planet of Viruses: Third Edition, Carl Zimmer
Programming
Understanding the Odin Programming Language, Karl Zylinski
Parallel and High Performance Computing, Robert Robey and Yuliana Zamora
Physics
Modern Particle Physics, Mark Thomson

Bookmarks

Software I like

Languages
Python, Odin, R, Bash
Editors
Helix, VS Code
Terminals
Ghostty, GNOME Terminal, Termius
Version control
Git via GitHub, Tangled
Command line
ripgrep, bat, fzf, yazi, zellij, fd, ffmpeg, yt-dlp, sponge, lynx, glow, pretzo, SQLite
Writing
Typst, Org-mode, AsciiDoc, LaTeX
Diagrams
D2
References
Zotero, zbib.org, Calibre
Web
Kagi, f.lux