In CI/CD workflows, dependency management is often a key factor determining build efficiency and reliability. Recently, I tried the setup-pixi GitHub Action in a static website deployment pipeline.

Ah, I didn’t expect that after so many years, Plotly still hits its limits with just a little use. Previously it couldn’t draw timeline charts, and this time I found that the customization of map markers is insufficient…

After using devpod for a short while, I realized that I still needed a tool that could automatically install VS Code on a remote host via SSH without relying on containers, and then forward the port back to my local machine. So I started using Copilot to help me understand devpod’s code…

In a short period of time, I’ve encountered two situations where I needed to fix bugs in R functions, and I’ve also learned how to perform hot replacements…

If you live long enough, you’ll encounter plenty of awkward situations.

In bioinformatics, the more cutting-edge your research direction, the more problems you’ll face from the informatics side. Even when papers are published with excellent results, and the original authors share their code or even provide ready-to-use software tools, it doesn’t mean we can easily use these existing resources for reproduction or further research. Chaotic environment setup is just one aspect - more often than not, since software authors aren’t professional software engineers, we should be grateful if the tool just works. We can’t expect these software to be bug-free, nor can we expect them to have decent performance (unless performance was a development goal). Even tools from well-established labs aren’t free to these issues, such as… Azimuth.

I’ve developed a habit of listening to videos during my bike ride home after work. This week, I came across a video by XPIN about RISC-V. The video presents a viewpoint: RISC-V, as an instruction set architecture, suffers from severe fragmentation in its chip products, which poses significant challenges to the development of its application ecosystem. Therefore, it’s argued that fragmentation must be addressed through unified standards to achieve rapid development. This perspective reminded me of my years of experience using Linux, Android, and the R language, leading me to believe that the video’s argument might not be entirely accurate.

I’m still quite fond of my current Hexo theme. From using its predecessor material-x in 2021 to upgrading to Volantis 5.x in 2023, the theme’s functionality has completely met my personal needs, to the point where I haven’t upgraded to the author’s subsequent versions 6 and 7. However, after using AI to batch-translate my blog content into English earlier this year, there have been persistent issues with some interface elements remaining in Chinese. This year, instead of undertaking major renovations, I decided to fix these minor bugs myself under AI guidance.

Recently, I attempted to use pixi to compile and run podman on FydeOS. While I made some progress, it ultimately only achieved half success. In this blog post, I’ll share the entire process and the issues encountered.

When using pixi to manage bioinformatics analysis environments, we often encounter issues where some Bioconductor R packages show missing dependencies after installation. The exact cause of this problem is currently unclear. After using pixi for a year, this issue still hasn’t been fixed (as of October 2025). This article introduces how to use pixi’s tasks feature to resolve such problems.