Ian Lyttle
@ijlyttle.bsky.social
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βοΈ π πΆ πΈ Protect Trans Kids πΈ Black Lives Matter
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Jumping Rivers
14 days ago
Stop fighting with Git. A few .gitconfig tweaks fix the daily annoyances: branch sorting by date, auto remote tracking, work/personal email switching, SSH commit signing. Check out this blog post by Colin Gillespie:
www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/recomme...
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Building a Robust .gitconfig
Explore how to optimise your Git workflow with a well-crafted .gitconfig file. From commit signing and branch management to conditional includes for work-personal separation, learn the settings that transform Git into a seamless development tool.
https://www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/recommended-gitconfig/
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David Bowie - Five Years (Live) [Official Video] [HD]
YouTube video by David Bowie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gPSGrpIlkc
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Libby Heeren
about 1 month ago
This is the most elite change in
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#rstats
#python
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Philippe Auclair
about 1 month ago
Magnificent. Make sure you click on the "1 more reply" link to make sure you read the whole thread. You will not regret it.
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Brian Coulter
about 2 months ago
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you havenβt seen them yet, itβs incredible. My favorite so far is last weekβs. Legit got me emotional.
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Jay Hulme
about 2 months ago
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
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Ben Fletcher-Watson
3 months ago
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théÒtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
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Can you see Newfoundland from Cape Breton? Online photo sparks debate | CBC News
An online photo has sparked a passionate debate about whether or not it's possible.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/can-you-see-newfoundland-from-cape-breton-9.6991525
3 months ago
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Jenny Bryan
3 months ago
I'm reminded of how handy the usethis::browse_*() functions are and thought I'd remind people they exist. Choose from a menu of links or go straight to CRAN or GitHub.
#rstats
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more mr. nice guy
3 months ago
this dude helping his bro pick up his stick should be highlight of the night but our bloodthirsty sports media only feeds us conflict
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Tomorrow Never Knows
YouTube video by Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Bluegrass Band - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMz4eXTPOL8
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asking for a favorite track is a trap... for me, this is less of an album, and more of an old friend: there when needed
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5 months ago
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We Are R-Ladies
5 months ago
Want to manage multiple R versions without pain? π§° The rig (R Installation Manager) tool makes installing, removing, and switching between
#RStats
versions simple; works across macOS, Windows, and Linux. π§
github.com/r-lib/rig
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Crystal Lewis
5 months ago
While I had been using rainbow parentheses for a while, I only recently found out about rainbow indentation thanks to
@ijlyttle.bsky.social
and
@3mmarand.bsky.social
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Emil Hvitfeldt
5 months ago
I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily
slidecrafting-book.com
#quarto
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Crystal Lewis
5 months ago
RDM Weekly Issue 14 is out! π¬ After attending posit::conf last week, I decided to highlight some recent and past data management related talks from the conference.
#rstats
- AI Coding Assistants - Spreadsheet formatting - Creating R Data Packages and more!
rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
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RDM Weekly - Issue 014
A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.
https://rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly-issue-014
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DuckDB
6 months ago
π π€ Timestamps and time zones can be confusing! π΅ π‘ To help you make sense of time zones in SQL, Richard Wesley wrote a short guide that covers some typical pitfalls:
duckdb.org/docs/stable/...
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Timestamp Issues
Timestamp With Time Zone Promotion Casts Working with time zones in SQL can be quite confusing at times. For example, when filtering to a date range, one might try the following query: SET timezone = ...
https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/guides/sql_features/timestamps
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Libby Heeren
6 months ago
Does Jenny Bryan
#VibeCode
? π€ She shared on the Hangout that she's been thankful that she gets to learn
#rust
and
#typscript
in the age of
#AI
and these are her thoughts on
#LLM
use. (We really need a
#RubberDuck
emoji π¦)
#rstats
#databs
#VibeCoding
#DSHangout
#python
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Really looking forward teaching again with
@3mmarand.bsky.social
: all sorts of good stuff, including: π getting started with functions β‘οΈ writing functions with tidy evaluation πββοΈiterating over columns of data frames π intro to functional programming with purrr Hope you can join us!
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6 months ago
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David Daniel
6 months ago
This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.
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WKRP: Johnny Fever
https://www.awphooey.com/wkrp
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Lucy DβAgostino McGowan
6 months ago
this is my TS album drop π€©
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I have drifted from Observable lately, and I could use a distraction today. I've got my morning coffee, let's do this!
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7 months ago
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Hadley Wickham
9 months ago
At Posit, we love
@typst.app
: β‘ Make PDFs in milliseconds, not minutes β¨ The power of LaTeX with today's technologies βοΈ Modern typography (including emojis!) π§ Clear mental model So I'm thrilled to announce that we're now supporting its development:
posit.co/blog/posit-a...
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Posit
Weβre happy to announce that weβre supporting Typst by funding one of their full-time engineers.
https://posit.co/blog/posit-and-typst/
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Connor McDavid in the elimination game against Dallas, 2024:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-ea...
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Gotta See It: Connor McDavid Shows Off Sweet Moves to Bury Goal
YouTube video by SPORTSNET
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-earI3cj5k
9 months ago
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Lucy DβAgostino McGowan
9 months ago
This is a fun piece on denominators to share with your friends, written with my
@wakeforest.bsky.social
colleague Jeff Camm!
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The New York Times
9 months ago
Robert βEdβ Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon.
nyti.ms/3Sbusb3
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(repeat to self) Python argument-defaults are mutable, Python argument-defaults are mutable, Python argument-defaults are mutable...
docs.python-guide.org/writing/gotc...
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Common Gotchas β The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python
https://docs.python-guide.org/writing/gotchas/#mutable-default-arguments
9 months ago
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Alex Kirshner
9 months ago
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this:
www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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Gregor Aisch
10 months ago
Last week I had the pleasure of finally releasing the
#SveltePlot
alpha version during my talk at the
#SvelteSummit
in Barcelona. It's a new visualization framework for
@svelte.dev
that I've been working on for the past 18 months, so it's about time for a π§΅
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Isaiah D. Colbert
10 months ago
As promised.
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Kerry Kole
10 months ago
This is why I can't sleep at night...
www.reddit.com/r/dataengine...
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From the dataengineering community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the dataengineering community
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataengineering/s/1a8Mf6rjRw
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Thomas Lin Pedersen
11 months ago
For the last couple of months I've been working on something and I'm excited to finally share an early preview: Say hello to plumber2 π plumber2 is a full rewrite of the plumber package for creating powerful webapis in
#rstats
. It takes everything we have learned from plumber and adds even more
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What the Package Does (One Line, Title Case)
What the package does (one paragraph).
https://posit-dev.github.io/plumber2/
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Star Trek Minus Context
11 months ago
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just finished the Severance finale, what an amazing combination (reintegration?) of Andor and The Princess Bride
11 months ago
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Posit
11 months ago
We're delighted to announce Jonathan McPherson β software architect at Posit β as keynote speaker at posit::conf(2025)! If you're curious about how thoughtful design principles can improve the data science tools you use, you won't want to miss this! Join us Sep 16-18 in Atlanta.
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Nick Tierney
11 months ago
Hi
#rstats
friends! I'm starting consulting! I've had a great journey in academia working with brilliant people, and while it's bittersweet (and a bit scary!), I'm excited for this next step. I'll still be maintaining {greta} and am hoping to be even more involved with the R community. 1/n
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11 months ago
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Frank Harrell
12 months ago
Voyagers I and II are two of the greatest wonders of humankind and are testimonies to the value of having an aspirational US federal government β¦
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Alison Hill
12 months ago
The community effort to make the penguins data accessible to all R users took almost exactly 2 years to date!! Our first email exchange was February 19, 2023. Thank you to our international forces of nature that made this happen!
@ellakaye.co.uk
@HeathrTurnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
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Davis Vaughan
about 1 year ago
@lionelhenry.bsky.social
and I are so excited to finally announce Air - an extremely fast R code formatter! π With Air, you'll never need to worry about styling your
#rstats
code ever again. All you need to do is save, and Air takes care of the rest.
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...
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Air, an extremely fast R formatter
We are thrilled to announce Air, a new R formatter.
https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02/air/
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AndrΓ© K. Isaacs
about 1 year ago
Diversity is our greatest asset, even if the government disagreesβ¦ They not like us! POC in STEM are here to stay. They tried to rig the game but you canβt fake influence! Mustard on the [Be][At] bro. Happy Black History Month!
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Luke Knox
about 1 year ago
this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.
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Posit
about 1 year ago
We're excited to announce Catherine Nelson as keynote speaker at posit::conf(2025)! Author of "Software Engineering for Data Scientists," she'll share how data scientists can benefit from software engineering best practices! Sept 16-18 in Atlanta.
pos.it/conf
#PositConf2025
#Python
#rstats
#pydata
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Posit
about 1 year ago
We're jazzed to announce that Kieran Healy (
@kjhealy.co
) as a keynote speaker at posit::conf(2025)! Tools for science are better than ever, but it's also easier to make stuff up. If Honest Data Visualization interests you, join us! Sept 16-18, Atlanta.
pos.it/conf
#PositConf2025
#Python
#RStats
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R-Ladies Bot
about 1 year ago
π "Where does the U.S. Government Keep its Data?" π€ Sam Tyner-Monroe π US Govt data sources: R packages & agency APIs for economic, justice, labor, & more! Unlock data insights. π
https://sctyner.me/post/2018-11-16-us-govt-data/
#rladies
#rstats
#oldiebutgoodie
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Posit
about 1 year ago
We're delighted to announce Cat Hicks
@grimalkina.bsky.social
β psychologist for software teams β will be a keynote speaker at posit::conf(2025)! Discover psychology tips for better dev teams and much more at conf. Register at
pos.it/conf
#PositConf2025
#DataScience
#OpenSource
#Python
#RStats
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