• A PLOS ONE paper describing an open-source syringe-pump library was highlighted, offering ready-to-use hardware designs for precision liquid handling in DIY biology and chemistry labs.  
• Discussion of the Merck–Sigma-Aldrich $17 billion acquisition underscored ongoing consolidation in life-science reagents and its potential impact on open-source bio supply chains.  
• Participants shared a TexMed mirror (turingbirds.com/texmed) as a faster alternative to bioinformatics.org for accessing biomedical literature when LibGen was down for fundraising.  
• A CVE-2014-6271 “Shellshock” bash vulnerability was dissected; links to proof-of-concept exploits and follow-up patches illustrated the persistent risk of remote-code-execution bugs in infrastructure used by biohackers.  
• Docker’s new ONBUILD instruction was explained as a way to create reusable base images for bioinformatics pipelines, letting downstream users inject code without editing Dockerfiles directly.  
• A request for an open-source “lab-note / tutorial” platform (akin to Instructables or Adafruit Learn) was met with suggestions of GitHub wikis and OpenMOOC, highlighting the lack of a dedicated tool for collaborative experimental protocols.  
• Links to PBS NewsHour segments on “biohacking care” and “hackers breach biology” were circulated, framing DIY biotech as a transformative force in medicine and materials science.  
• A method for comparing divergent GitHub forks of the newly open-sourced FreeRouting PCB auto-router was demonstrated, showing how to fetch multiple remotes and run git diff to assess code drift.  
• Real-time monitoring tools—Seyren for Graphite, Chartio, StatHat, and Librato—were recommended for tracking lab sensors and cloud bio-services.