ok, i vibecoded the thing github.com/ryanscharf/m.... this is a good testament by how much 'R in production' code is often about everything other than R #rstats

when looking for a #rstats mirai docker container, i wasn't expecting to find out that some botnet malware uses the same name

"or thereabouts" T.T

Taco Tuesday

#wosoc fans, what kind of stuff do you like to see? What is #gainbridgesuperleague not giving you? What's your favorite stat to shitpost about? Feed me requests and I can see what I can make happen. #usl #usls #sportsanalytics #sickos

I'd like to get into to some of the details on how I productionalized this pipeline since this is one of the areas of #rstats and #datascience that you don't really get formal education on. I have a TrueNAS server that hosts docker containers to handle my infrastructure.

we're now live with the first public iteration! usls-modeling.ryanscharf.com

here's a tiny preview of some of the stats i've stood up so far. i have a lot of figuring out to do on how to get my db exposed and then themeing everything up to look right

"try connect cloud!", @libbyheeren.bsky.social says. "deployment is so easy! positron makes the manifest for you", she says

might have some birdhouse drama coming up

Going into the final 9ish games of the #uslsuperleague, here's where we stand with playoff odds as determined by 1 million season simulations. Come at me with your hot takes and trash talk me beloved Sun being garbage this year. #USLS #gainbridgesuperleague #woso #USL #sportsanalytics #databs

If you feel like you've got IKEA furniture assembly down pat and want your next challenge, let me introduce you to the harbor freight mechanic cart

LOOKING FORWARD TO BABIES!

Has anyone asked Claude Code to bring the oil through the Strait of Hormuz

The new eBay meta of opening a product in a tab and then waiting for discounts to come in on their own is pretty weird.

seeing a team consisting of brad marchand, tom wilson, and sam bennett losing is so satisfying

He comes at you wanting attention. What do you do?

The Muppets are still fun

Excel continues its grand tradition of giving you ever more rope to hang yourself with… Ditto what this guy said 👇

Wow, this is spectacular! Evolution of beak size in an urban population of juncos in response to the loss of supplementary food (bird feeders) during the COVID pandemic, and subsequent regression. Is the UCLA campus the new Daphne Major? pnas.org/doi/full/10....

I always told myself I'd be at the Lightning's first outdoor game, but for the cost of one ticket, I could get entire season tickets to the Sun or Rowdies. I've gone from being a Lightning sicko to a Sun sicko just due to the cost of entry to events.

Psssst. That data thing you're trying to do? @Posit.co Connect probably does it. #dataBS

ON SALE NOW. 🏴‍☠️ Limited quantities available online @ShopTBSports Don’t wait. 👀 #TampaBaySunFC #DefendTheBay #CapelliSports https://tampabaysports.com/collections/sun

youtu.be/vEcwHiTSRWM?... Sometimes old YouTube really shows up

the tampa bay soccer news as of late

Thinking of all the dogs out there on this stressful evening

@libbyheeren.bsky.social is always telling us to work out loud so I'm going to spin up a thread about the soccer analysis work I've been poking around at. I'm a big supporter of the USL Super League / Gainbridge Super League and have been messing around with modeling playoff probabilities.

He's Just Standing There... MENACINGLY

The NWSL is upping the ante on 'pretty privileged' with #1 here.

Plugging the R!sk 2026 conference on here because I haven't seen it posted yet! #rstats #databs #datascience rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website/

Plugging the R!sk 2026 conference on here because I haven't seen it posted yet! #rstats #databs #datascience rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website/

The LLM privacy question comes up (rightly so) on every data community call I'm on. I've had sooo many questions myself. #databs #rstats #pydata Good resource: posit.co/blog/trust-l... Also, have you seen side::kick in RStudio? simonpcouch.github.io/side/

i've seen 3 different people mention Zed this week. what's the deal with it? #rstats #datascience

#rstats Please welcome Jarl, a new R linter. Jarl is a CLI tool with extensions in VS Code, Positron, and Zed. It can check thousands of lines of R code in milliseconds. Jarl provides several output formats, a Github Actions workflow, and more. Blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2025-1...

Me, a python newbie! :(

in 2012, you could get your halloween burrito at chipotle for $2. now that same 'deal' is for a $6 burrito, which is nearly what the menu price for a chicken burrito was back in 2012.

Try CTRL + /

the hardest #positron / vscode-style-shortcut for me to remember, so far, has been ctrl +k, c to comment/uncomment blocks of code #databs #rstats

{fs} is one of those extremely dope R packages that I always forget about. the OS specific file path management functions are 👌

baby's first: discord bot, rust package, github action, dockge deployment

birding is having such a good year that even the blue jays made it to the world series.

for anyone transitioning to bluesky, here are some things to get started starter packs for interests - blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs find twitter people on bsky - www.sky-follower-bridge.dev custom feeds to follow - blueskydirectory.com/feeds

Did a very BRAVE homeowner thing and took my bag with all the assorted screws and THREW THEM ALL OUT

Hey, #databs and #rstats - would you forgive me using these hashtags to ask for help finding a new area to live? My husband and I need an affordable farm-ish to move to in the #NewEngland area! Where do you love to live?! We need >= 1 acre + access to medical, & can't afford to live near the coast

Celebrating the little wins in 2025. I've been hearing barred owls in my neighborhood over the last year but haven't seen one until tonight 🪶 #birds #wildlife

is shinyapps.io deprecated to make way for Connect Cloud? I'm used to publishing to shinyapps from RStudio but just realized that it's not available in #positron right now. #rstats #databs

remember when it felt like we heard talks about the ethical use of machine learning for like half a decade and then LLMs came out and the industry was like "jk"

A month or two ago someone posted a link to their really amazing set of LLM system instructions for writing #rstats code with good tidy/NSE patterns. (They were also good for humans!) Does anyone recall who or where that was?

Whoever came up with the 'Copilot' branding must've been the same person that coined 'Redwood National and State Parks'. Constantly explaining the difference between M365 Copilot, Github Copilot, and now Azure OpenAI Copilot endpoints is tiresome. #databs

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