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... #Git #DevTools

this song keeps hitting differently lately www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gPS...

This is the most elite change in #Positron, it's so calming. #rstats #python #databs

Magnificent. Make sure you click on the "1 more reply" link to make sure you read the whole thread. You will not regret it.

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

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.

🎶 get your mind off wintertime you aint goin nowhere 🎵

Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.

Today in Canadian headlines: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Today in "most Canadian headlines":

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

this dude helping his bro pick up his stick should be highlight of the night but our bloodthirsty sports media only feeds us conflict

this is the wildest thing I have heard in a while www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMz4...

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

Want to manage multiple R versions without pain? 🧰 The rig (R Installation Manager) tool makes installing, removing, and switching between #RStats versions simple; works across macOS, Windows, and Linux. 🔧 github.com/r-lib/rig

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 🌈 #rstats

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

RDM Weekly Issue 14 is out! 📬 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...

🕐 🤔 Timestamps and time zones can be confusing! 😵 💡 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/...

Does Jenny Bryan #VibeCode? 🤔 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 🦆) #rstats #databs #VibeCoding #DSHangout #python

Really looking forward teaching again with @3mmarand.bsky.social: all sorts of good stuff, including: 🐝 getting started with functions ⚡️ writing functions with tidy evaluation 🏃‍♀️iterating over columns of data frames 🐈 intro to functional programming with purrr Hope you can join us!

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.

this is my TS album drop 🤩

I have drifted from Observable lately, and I could use a distraction today. I've got my morning coffee, let's do this!

At Posit, we love @typst.app: ⚡ Make PDFs in milliseconds, not minutes ✨ The power of LaTeX with today's technologies ✍️ Modern typography (including emojis!) 🧠 Clear mental model So I'm thrilled to announce that we're now supporting its development: posit.co/blog/posit-a... #rstats

same energy

Connor McDavid in the elimination game against Dallas, 2024: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-ea...

This is a fun piece on denominators to share with your friends, written with my @wakeforest.bsky.social colleague Jeff Camm!

Robert “Ed” 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

(repeat to self) Python argument-defaults are mutable, Python argument-defaults are mutable, Python argument-defaults are mutable... docs.python-guide.org/writing/gotc...

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...

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 🧵

As promised.

This is why I can't sleep at night... www.reddit.com/r/dataengine...

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 🎉 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

just finished the Severance finale, what an amazing combination (reintegration?) of Andor and The Princess Bride

We're delighted to announce Jonathan McPherson – software architect at Posit – 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. pos.it/conf

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

find yourself someone who looks at you like Leon Draisaitl looks at Calvin Pickard after scoring an overtime goal

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 …

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 🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧

@lionelhenry.bsky.social and I are so excited to finally announce Air - an extremely fast R code formatter! 🎉 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...

Diversity is our greatest asset, even if the government disagrees… They not like us! POC in STEM are here to stay. They tried to rig the game but you can’t fake influence! Mustard on the [Be][At] bro. Happy Black History Month!

this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.

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

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

📝 "Where does the U.S. Government Keep its Data?" 👤 Sam Tyner-Monroe 📖 US Govt data sources: R packages & agency APIs for economic, justice, labor, & more! Unlock data insights. 🔗 https://sctyner.me/post/2018-11-16-us-govt-data/ #rladies#rstats#oldiebutgoodie

We're delighted to announce Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social – psychologist for software teams – 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