Travis Cline https://tmc.dev AI infrastructure engineer and open source developer The Coming Age of Pharmacogenomics https://tmc.dev/posts/2018-pharmacogenomics.html https://tmc.dev/posts/2018-pharmacogenomics.html Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000 How genomics is changing drug prescription, from billion-dollar sequencing to the hundred-dollar genome. Bringing macOS to the Go Ecosystem https://tmc.dev/posts/2026-bringing-macos-to-go.html https://tmc.dev/posts/2026-bringing-macos-to-go.html Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 tmc/apple generates cgo-free Go bindings for 150-odd Apple frameworks. The hard parts are the places where Objective-C's type system says things Go's refuses to. How Should a Command-Line Tool Let Other People Extend It? https://tmc.dev/posts/2026-go-cli-integration.html https://tmc.dev/posts/2026-go-cli-integration.html Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Git's extension mechanism is a string concatenation and an exec. Reading why that was the right answer, and what a Go CLI should and should not copy. Repeat Yourself — What a Transformer Does When It Runs Its Own Middle Layers Twice https://tmc.dev/posts/2026-repeat-yourself.html https://tmc.dev/posts/2026-repeat-yourself.html Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A research log on RYS-style layer duplication — pre-registered experiments, adversarial review, and the evidence to date on whether duplicated middle layers solve or merely sharpen. A Pure-Go VRF, Five Years Later https://tmc.dev/posts/2026-vrf-pure-go.html https://tmc.dev/posts/2026-vrf-pure-go.html Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 In 2021 I ported Algorand's VRF off cgo as a series of PRs. They weren't accepted and the code sat on a branch for five years. This is what I eventually did with it. Programmatic Ubiquitous Language https://tmc.dev/posts/ubiquitous-language.html https://tmc.dev/posts/ubiquitous-language.html Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000 On the importance of shared vocabulary across organizations and the hidden costs when it breaks down.