My parents were low income so I often just browsed game shops as a kid. Sometimes mum let me get a game. It'd cost her whole day's wage and a chunk of our rent. Dad once told me to check under the car seat and Pokemon Red was there in a bag. Ownership isn't the only thing we lose with physical media

New package on CRAN! {skymodelr} allows you to generate glorious high dynamic range skydomes in #RStats at any place and date/time! Realistic radiance, 0-15000m altitude, stars, planets, and of course, the moon: modeled with the correct phase and brightness! #rayverse GH: github.com/tylermorganw...

I know it may not feel it - because well... winter - but winter this year really have been crazy hot in the south east. Charts for Melbourne, Sydney and Hobart below. And it's only likely to get hotter from here, but for the rest of this year and for the rest of the century.

Fair to say this was written in anger, frustration and despair. The NDIS cuts, and the way they are being done, are cruel. They cannot be supported. www.deepcutnews.com/p/health-min...

Today we launched a dive into the "less lethal" weapons some police are using against crowds in Australia—and about which very little is publicly known. These are projectiles that release powder designed to burn the eyes and throat. Flashbang grenades. Teargas. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

There's already a lot of misinformation about this year's forecast El Niño, and particularly the prospects of associated drought. This is an excellent correction from @climatefreund.bsky.social who knows more about ENSO and rainfall than just about anyone. TLDR: Hot and dry aren't the same thing!

Really great to have our cool spaces map featured on the BBC (apps.london.gov.uk/cool-spaces/) and a shout out for London's water fountains (apps.london.gov.uk/water-founta...). Both built by @halimahexe.bsky.social using our London City Data Design System (LCD-DS) and #svelte component library!

We’re doing a *lot* of infrastructure work in Quarto 2 to enable these sorts of direct manipulation affordances in the foundations, and it’s seriously tricky work. That Emil’s extension pulls it off in Quarto 1 is bewildering. Super cool.

Australia Post: we should teach people how to avoid phishing scams Also Australia Post: we should save 7 characters in our texts by making a shortener with a domain from an overseas ccTLD and then not even stand a page or a redirect up on that site

@tylermw.com's skymodelr package is so rad. So incredible what we can do with just a bit of #rstats code in 2026. Made myself a lovely new macOS Dynamic Wallpaper with skymodelr and the (also great) equinoxmac.com app.

🚨Job alert🚨 The Social Research Centre do lots of interesting research and Danny would be great to work with. If you do data work and are looking for something in Melbourne, check it out! #databs www.linkedin.com/posts/dvfrye...

It’s time for Australia to move on from ‘affordable’ housing. inflectionpoints.work/articles/aga...

if anyone in R or Python ever thought "gee I'd like to contribute to GDAL", I'm here to help you get started can guide you through good approaches, what to think about, and what's bare minimum for a bug fix or feature PR, and the python and C++ tooling you will need (speaking linux)

No one in govt is talking about before the budget, but just FYI, the level of Jobseeker is now 42% below the poverty line - worse than it was during the Howard years... live.thepoint.com.au

Deeply disappointed that UniSuper is furthering loosening the negative screens in its green investment options to allow more weaponry.

IT'S NOT EVEN A REAL FIGURE! THE CLAIM THAT 7.5 MILLION AUSTRALIANS TOOK SICK LEAVE IN 2023/24 IS AN ASSUMPTION PLUCKED FROM FUCKEN THIN AIR! THEY TOOK THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT THEY THOUGHT WERE ELIGIBLE FOR SICK LEAVE AND MULTIPLIED IT BY 0.8! WHERE DOES 0.8 COME FROM? IT'S A FUCKEN GUESS!

Holy shit! Someone has pledged $100k to the AYCC to match any donations that come through today! This means the impact of every dollar you donate today is doubled. 💛 Get all the way amongst it here: www.aycc.org.au/emergencyapp...

I met so many smart, kind, tough-as-fuck people through @youth4climate.bsky.social. AYCC taught me climate activism is climate hope. They desperately need a hand to light that fire for another generation. They’re a fantastic org that is deserving of your money emergencyappeal2026.raiselysite.com

It is simply fucking unacceptable that @youth4climate.bsky.social (aka the AYCC) might be forced to close for good after 20 years, and I will not be letting this happen. If I find out a single one of you hasn't given what you are able, I will lose my fucking mind.

This is a very big life update, and has been a plan I have been working on for several years. I'm pretty stoked tbh.

CSS nesting is now Baseline 🎉 Write nested selectors directly in CSS — just like Sass, but natively. .card { color: black; &:hover { color: blue; } .title { font-weight: bold; } } No preprocessor needed. Learn more 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

I’m generally ambivalent about Liquid Glass, but if a real bubble meter sloshed around like this I would be quite frustrated

Given February is the hottest month of the year for the Coral Sea (averages 28.8°C for 1991-2020), and it’s currently at an all time record of 29.5°C, you really don’t want tropical cyclones going overhead. Warm water = Tropical Cyclone fuel www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/clim...

“Tropical Cyclone Narelle has developed in the Coral Sea, and is expected to bring severe impacts to Far North Queensland.” www.bom.gov.au/warning/trop...

It’s kind of astonishing how good the Kobo’s @myscript.com-powered notebook experience is given these devices are like a third the price of a Remarkable. Genuinely did not think the hardware would be able to handle it

new package alert! {tidychain} is a #rstats packaged inspired by the below authors experience in showing how an excel file was changed / manipulated by looking at the underlying xml files to prove fraud in research datacolada.org/109package usrbinr.codeberg.page/tidychain/

We had some great sport entries to last year’s Closeread contest — get in for a great job opportunity here!

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

If left unchecked, we are racing towards a world where searching for "struggling to breastfeed" makes baby formula more expensive for you in your local supermarket (that's one dystopian example anyway)

Anyone familiar with time series animation in QGIS? I have a series of GeoTIFFs with valid (I think) timestamps in the metadata that aren’t recognized as timestamps. And the QGIS tool to automatically assign timestamps thinks a month is always 30 days. 🤷‍♂️ So I’m at something of a loss.

Try it out with Quarto 1.9.18 pre-release ;)

Very keen to play with the newly merged Typst book support in @quarto.org! Thanks, Quarto team! prerelease.quarto.org/docs/books/

We are organising a conference! visualisingclimate.com

Instagram link to the heatwave and climate change discussion by Dr. Adam Morgan on ABC News tonight www.instagram.com/reel/DT-Cb6t...

The highest temperature ever recorded in Victoria is 48.8°C at Hopetoun on 7 Feb 2009. The forecast for Tuesday at Ouyen Victoria is 49°C.

Some serious heat in the northern and eastern suburbs of Melbourne tomorrow. Temperatures up to 45C as close to the CBD as Preston. Not sure i have seen a forecast for 42C at Ferny Creek - ontop of the Dandenongs - ever before You can check your location's forcast via www.bom.gov.au/australia/me...

In this post I break down the process of how I post-processed my #ggplot charts 📊 to look like they were embroidered into cloth. If you liked this effect, try it out on your own charts as well! Please let me know if something isn't clear. #rstats aman.bh/blog/2025/cr...

Rhea and I have been tracking our @nytimes.com word games (Wordle, Connections and the Mini) for the past two years. I decided to analyze our 4,200 gameplays with #rstats to determine a winner and made some festively embroidered charts with ggplot. Have a read. #dataviz aman.bh/blog/2025/tw...

Quarto friends! I need your help: We are implementing a new QMD parser in Quarto. It will be super nice. But it's a big change, and we want to minimize the impact. 1. Can you share a link to your Quarto project at github.com/quarto-dev/q... 2. repost this and let your Quarto friends know too?

This Calibri story is wild when you consider the US Government designed and open sourced a far better looking sans serif font, Public Sans (public-sans.digital.gov) www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Svelte...in Quarto!?! This extension by @jamesgoldie.dev looks wonderful! quarto-svelte.jamesgoldie.dev

If you missed my talk but still want some tips for writing good code for scientists, my slides are here: daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w... All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏 #ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub

dev.to/aws-builders... Building serverless apps on AWS typically involves using DynamoDB for a database as it's truly serverless. It is somewhat difficult to start with and the interface isn't super easy to navigate. The recent multi-attribute composite key support is a big win for us. (1️⃣/4️⃣) 🧵

Severe Tropical #CycloneFina - now category 3 - over Van Diemen Gulf, north east of Darwin. www.bom.gov.au/warning/trop...

Australian #databs #datascience jobs 👀

Anyone know of a better solution for Google Chat on the desktop than the web app? The web app is really rough around the edges. Would love to sideload the iOS app, even though I'd lose the Google Meet integration.

Everyone is talking about AI and ignoring the biggest technological innovation of our time: the Bureau of Meteorology finally setting up SSL