- A high-school student published the first freshwater angelfish genome, sequenced at home with an Oxford Nanopore MinION from DNA extracted from his deceased pet; the micro-publication is available at https://www.micropublication.org/journals/biology/micropub-biology-000654.  
- Participants debated whether early atomically-precise manufacturing (APM) should be patent-encumbered; one view is that patents would reduce corporate secrecy and that infringement would occur anyway, making eventual open proliferation more likely.  
- NIH’s recent restriction of access to a major genetics database was flagged as a serious setback for open biomedical research (link: https://www.city-journal.org/nih-blocks-access-to-genetics-database).  
- Fossil SCM was praised as a simpler, self-contained alternative to Git for small projects, with built-in bug tracking and wiki; links to the project (https://fossil-scm.org) and a Git-to-Fossil migration guide were shared.  
- Monotone and the still-experimental “Pijul” (referred to as “pigil”) were discussed as DVCS options that use patch theory to eliminate the need for history rewriting or rebasing, though Monotone is unmaintained and Pijul’s implementation remains incomplete.  
- Darcs was noted to have largely been abandoned by the Haskell community in favor of Git after suffering from exponential-time merge cases and usability issues.