Does anything like breakerofchains from @milesmcbain.bsky.social exist for Positron? forum.posit.co/t/breakerofc... #Rstats

NOBODY SHOULD COME HERE that includes the useR conference #RStats

There are now so many "backends" for {dplyr}—duckdb with {duckplyr}, polars with {tidypolars}, various database engines with {dbplyr}, {data.table} with {dtplyr}. Is there a blog post or flow chart somewhere with pros and cons of each? Like, comparisons of memory requirements, speed, and how […]

I’m grabbing a database snapshot now to figure out exactly what the relay has stuffed into the database, but figured I would ask in parallel: Is this the expected behaviour? If it is, what is this setting there for? If the relay isn’t filling up the “status” table… what is it filling up? Is it […]

Hey #bldrweb - Seems our Mastodon server is not sending out emails (new accounts, password resets, missed notifications, etc.). I'm working on the issue, but it's a tricky one, so I'm not sure how long it'll take to resolve. Please DM or email me ([email protected]) if you run into issues.

Do you know of any #rstats teams who could use some help in 2025? I'm a freelance consultant with 10yrs of experience in #datasci, #dataeng, #dataops, and providing #sysadmin for related tools. I primarily work with R, but I have enough SQL and Python knowledge to get by. I know my way around […]

Colorado's digital "I Voted" sticker.

Reminder: Down-ballot contests matter. There's so much attention paid to "swing states" and the presidential race that people outside those states sometimes wonder if there's any point in voting. Yes there is! Ther House and Senate seats are often tightly contested even if a state's electoral […]

Gen-AI image generation hack: I was iterating on an image (a logo idea) with ChatGPT, but I ran out of credits when I was very close to something I liked. I asked it to generate the prompt for the image it was trying to create, then I took that prompt to […] [Original post on toot.bldrweb.org]

Hey #bldrweb - need to apply an upgrade, so we'll have a brief downtime in a few minutes.

Flying to #portland, #maine today. We'll have to wait about 3.5h before our travel companions arrive. The rental car is in their name. Looking for suggestions for things to do with the time. I *think* we need to be back at the airport when they arrive so we can be added as drivers on the rental.

Yesterday, I was lucky enough to meet Quentin Young of @coloradonewsline.com at a Rocky Mountain #PBS event here in #Fruita #Colorado. After following his work for so many years, it was great to meet in person! Timely reminder to donate to support local journalism: coloradonewsline.com/donate/

Hey there #bldrweb - I created a Matrix room for us to use as a communications back channel in case the server is ever down. Of course you can always reach me by email, but there are some cases where Matrix (a slack- or discord-like interface) might be better. Go check it out and say hello […]

I love everything about this story. We need more of this in the world (h/t hackernews) https://eieio.games/essays/the-secret-in-one-million-checkboxes/ > ... The discord was full of some very sharp teens4, and they were writing these secret messages to gather other very sharp teens to talk […]

Interesting! > Report pushes for urgent implementation of artificial intelligence in Colorado classrooms · Post Independent | Citizen Telegram https://www.postindependent.com/news/colorado-education-initiative-ai-roadmap/

xkcd: Storage Tanks https://xkcd.com/2974/

Ducked(!) out early from the #tidyverse dev day so I could catch part of the #duckdb DuckCon. The #rstats world will always have my heart, but the duck-theme ecosystem is very attractive! (Luckily there's no need to choose).

If you use #quarto and care about staying up on the latest and greatest, stop what you're doing right now and check out the new close-read extension. This brings the "scrolly-telling" format to quarto with an advanced degree in webdev. Very impressive! Can't wait to share the #positconf2024 […]

Starting the journey to #positconf2024 . Flying from Western Colorado. This is the first time I've flown for work or attended a conference since long before the pandemic. And the first time doing either since starting my own company. Definitely mixed feelings. I'm really looking forward to all […]

The smoke is getting a lot thicker out here in Conifer, CO. 😔 I have the car prepped to transport the animals if we end up having to evacuate. 🐕 🐈‍⬛ 🐐 🐓 🦆 Now time to prep the rest of my shit. #evacuation #wildfire #wildfires #colorado #homesteading #dogs #cats #goats #chickens #ducks

#bldrweb - Upgrade with some downtime happening today! Sometime midday today I'm going to take the server offline so I can run a backup then apply some upgrades. Tentatively planning for ~11AM, but I'll try to give you all a 30min warning.

#bldrweb - Upgrade with some downtime happening today! Sometime midday today I'm going to take the server offline so I can run a backup then apply some upgrades. Tentatively planning for ~11AM, but I'll try to give you all a 30min warning.

This seems like a bonkers rate of progress. > China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations per week https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-07-16/chinas-renewable-energy-boom-breaks-records/104086640

#colorado - Do you know about the *free* Colorado Trail Explorer website and app? Maybe I'm late to the game here, but this is one of the best mapping apps I've used. Amazing level of detail and works offline. https://trails.colorado.gov/

Hey #bldrweb - around 2:30p today, I'm going to make another attempt at the improvements to the server (more disk space, separate data volume, smaller/cheaper VPS node). I'm estimating about 2h of downtime if everything goes smoothly. I setup a chat (mattermost) on a separate server for […]

Hey #bldrweb - still working on upgrades here. Will need to take the server offline again sometime soon. Sorry for all the up/down.

Hey #bldrweb 🚨 - I'm going to take the server offline sometime in the next 30min or so to do some upgrades. I'm hoping this will be ~1h downtime. Fear not - we have a more recent backup this time around, so data loss should be pretty unlikely!

Hey #bldrweb - our @phanpy interface is back up and running again (it was a casualty of yesterday's upgrade misadventures). Anyone can use it, bldrweb or otherwise: https://phanpy.bldrweb.org/ If you're not familiar with Phanpy: https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy

Oh, I forgot I have public facing uptime dashboards: https://stats.uptimerobot.com/72VWwuzKPV

Hey #bldrweb: I'm very sorry to share that a server upgrade earlier today failed, and I was forced to restore from a backup that had been taken earlier this morning. Any posts/messages/interactions created between approx 2AM and noon today might have been lost. Please check your toots/likes/DMs […]

Hey #bldrweb - I'll be applying a server upgrade shortly. Possibly momentary downtime. Will reply here when I'm done.

Beautiful evening in #Boulder #Colorado yesterday. Enjoyed cool drinks on a rooftop patio and attended a presentation by Friends of Cocahmo[1] and Puelo Patagonia[2] about their effort to protect the Cocahmo and Pecheguin valleys in southern Chile 1 https://friendsofcochamo.org/ 2…