- ShareLaTeX, a web-based collaborative LaTeX editor, was released as open-source software under https://github.com/sharelatex/sharelatex, making professional document preparation more accessible to DIY researchers.  
- Discussion of Oxford Nanopore’s MinION sequencer highlighted its $900 single-use flowcell; participants debated whether the cartridge could be rinsed and reused, concluding that prior attempts to regenerate Illumina flowcells had failed.  
- The open-source DNA microarray spotter/“arrayer” project POSAM (also called POGO) was identified at http://www.bioinformatics.org/pogo/ as a candidate platform for low-cost DNA synthesis in the DIYbio community.  
- Transcriptic, described as “AWS for life science,” announced a new $4.1 million funding round to expand its robotic cloud-lab services for remote biological experimentation.  
- Rosalind.info was recommended as a free, practice-oriented resource for learning bioinformatics through coding challenges.  
- A link to the classic distributed-systems paper “Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System” (Lamport, 1978) was retrieved by paperbot and made available at http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/paperbot/Time%2C%20clocks%2C%20and%20the%20ordering%20of%20events%20in%20a%20distributed%20system.pdf.  
- Participants noted that Bitcoin developer Gregory Maxwell is the same individual who previously organized the large-scale JSTOR academic-paper torrent release.