🎉 Announcing surveydown v1.0.0! surveydown is an #opensource #rstats package for building surveys with #Quarto & #Shiny. This release improves the survey design experience, including: - Simplified YAML settings - Auto page navigation - Previous buttons! More at surveydown.org/blog/2025-11...

Tonight is a "two separate smoke alarms start chirping with low battery warnings and continue even after you replace the batteries" kind of night

I've been thinking about this for a while, and absent *extensive* red-teaming most online social science research could get completely cooked

Cowardice is bad, actually

Not now, carnivorous death ball

Vaxxed, voted, and donated to my local food bank. If you're in the US and can do any of that stuff would love to have you on board

Programmers' Enemies Tier List S Daylight savings, Themselves A Leap years, Timezones B Naming, Cache invalidation C Cloud billing incomprehensibility D Language wars F (Scared to rank any this low)

I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.

Happy Halloween! My algorithm is haunting me by serving videos of someone trying to build an ML model with 100% accuracy. Time to go celebrate my friend's spooky birthday and do zero math

In the liminal space where I can't tell how much my cooking is getting better vs my standards getting worse

Made a small React app with Typescript so friends could do a scavenger hunt during our Halloween party! Main request was for a more extensive + harder hunt, which I'll take as a win. Time to level up my front-end game before next year!

This is a good example of why I yell at people for sharing poll results as screenshots/text without linking back to the actual poll toplines. It breaks the chain of information and makes it way easier for bad actors to thrive.

This is basketball now, and it feels so good

First NBA game of the season and we get free basketball? Love this energy

NBA back

I just went on LinkedIn and immediately found a bunch of useful, interesting resources posted by thoughtful people. Should I buy a lottery ticket?

Issue 18 of RDM Weekly is out! 📬 - Data Skills for Reproducible Research from psyTeachR - A Tribal Data Repository to Advance Indigenous Health and Sovereignty @nature.com - Community Research Data Toolkit @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

I'm proud of the knowledge I've cultivated in social science methods and more tech-y stuff. This combination also threatens to make me one of the most annoying people in the world

I used to go looking for The Discourse, gear up, and dive straight into the pit. Now even when I accidentally find The Discourse no I didn't

My favorite part about this is the camera work. Absolutely no idea where the ball is, like a guy with a flip phone trying to take a picture of Mars.

Saw a video of someone earnestly trying to build an ML model with 100% accuracy and I most log off immediately

When I learn OU hasn't scored a touchdown against UT 3 of the last 4 years

I know there's so much baggage, and man I love sports

Why did none of y'all tell me the X Files cooked so hard?

nice

Underrated skill alert

Wondering how many data things *really* only have to happen once Not because this has ever happened to me, no definitely not

You might need to get in line, but hire @randyau.com Also, Twitter and Bluesky helped me get every single job I've had since 2019. Being (perhaps too) online has been more professionally useful than I ever would have imagined

Caring for Your Webserver is out. It covers - browsing the access logs - catching missed pages - automatically adding .html to requests, when needed - redirecting URLs - setting up log rotations - finding a content provider for large files brandonrohrer.com/hosting4.html

I shared this earlier because I think it is so funny but then I also thought to myself, what advice would I (a learning scientist by background, married to someone who teaches programming) actually give a developer who feels bad reading this? How can you avoid writing this? A few tips:

Follow for my exclusive, high-priced course on how to read two books in two days* *Trudge through one of the books for ~9 months, then feverishly finish it on a plane for no reason. Then get an excellent recommendation that's <100 pages from a horror YouTuber

Networking tip I always give: I think a big part of connecting is curiosity and being excited for other's accomplishments. It's not about you. #PositConf2025

By far the worst customer experience I've had anytime recently is Betterment. Old company transferred my 401k to them after I left. Now they're using every dark pattern imaginable to prevent me from rolling that money over to my current job's 401k. Stay away if you possibly can

I love a good Tech/Eng Company Blog😍 Some faves: - Eppo www.geteppo.com/blog-categor... - StitchFix multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/ - Etsy www.etsy.com/codeascraft

Posting far too much about p values in like 2018 indirectly resulted in every job I've ever had. Hang this sentence in the Louvre

A Twitch streamer I follow just went live with the tag "LINUX!" and I'm sure this says nothing about me whatsoever

Me anytime I try to make slides about anything

Today is the new semester for @db.cs.cmu.edu's Intro to Database Systems! We're going harder into material than before. More challenging projects but you can use LLMs to help. We also have 10min talks each Wed from leading DB companies: 15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2025

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

See y'all there!

Season 1 of The Terror was the opposite of Paradise: Fantastic, haunting dialogue with anti-climatic set pieces Still, might have to watch everything with Jared Harris in it

Sometimes the best engineering practices are the practices that let you deliver a useful thing

Tired: Debugging GitHub Actions Wired: Watching DougDoug debug a wild DnD campaign setup while debugging GitHub Actions Inspired: Casting my computer into the sea and going to a concert

Habits that build useful skills and grindset aesthetics barely overlap. This is a big part of why

Paradise might be the highest variance show I've ever seen The Day is one of the best standalone episodes I've seen in years. The Sinatra episode includes some of the worst written dialogue I've ever heard. I can't say I recommend it but I had a great time?

I know renv solves a thorny problem, and I'm tempted to hack together an R version of uv every time renv::restore() runs in my Docker container A ludicrous idea for so many reasons, and yet

i don’t think it’s fair that the walls can get dusty. like what am i supposed to do about that. that doesn’t seem like it should be my problem.

I gasped

There's nothing quite like making a piece of software run 10x faster