Drop #697 Editor-ial Edition Today's Drop explores 3 text editing perspectives: Zedless prioritizes privacy & community ownership, Neovim serves static content efficiently through a Lua plugin & MCP Text Editor Server offers line-based editing w/secure ops.

I'll be releasing a new version of my #RStats package chronicler which makes it easy to log functions, now it's able to log ggplots as well! b-rodrigues.github.io/chronicler/i...

TidierErrors.jl now has an #rstats counterpart in {errbud}, your local LLM-powered tool for decrypting error messages in R, thanks to @randy.pub. No more settling for “object of type `builtin` is not subsettable” It even looks to see what packages are loaded! github.com/rdboyes/errbud

I've recently started compiling a list of data science related resources that I use or recommend frequently! 📊 Link: nrennie.rbind.io/data-science... #RStats #Python #DataViz #DataScience

I now also have a (work in progress) list of #DataViz specific resources as well! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/data-viz-res... You can find links to tools, papers, books, blogs, and websites that are related to data visualisation. I'll be adding more resources soon 📊 #RStats #Python

GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft, as CEO Thomas Dohmke resigns. GitHub is now moving to Microsoft's AI engineering team, CoreAI, with a new structure for GitHub's leadership team. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/757461/...

Safe to say, things are not looking too good.

buckle up tanglers, we've been working hard! first up: ✨CI is now generally available!✨ head to your repo settings and set your workflow runner to the hosted instance. 🚀 we have also got support for secrets! you can now deploy your site on CI! read the blog for more: blog.tangled.sh/ci 1/5

Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 LLM Subscriptions $3,600 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

Debian Linux version 13 is scheduled for its stable release this Saturday, August 9, 2025. Everybody get ready for the mother distro!

🇯🇵 Japan has officially banned Apple’s iOS browser engine restrictions. Starting Dec 2025, iPhones must allow real Firefox, Chrome, and others to run their own engines, just like on desktop. open-web-advocacy.org/blog/japan-a...

History repeats itself.. OpenAI opened two models today, and they are available on Hugging Face 🤗. Long term, the competition will do the work, and we see LLMs fully open source, as it was with deep learning algorithms and other applications. huggingface.co/openai/gpt-o... #opensource #ai #llm

uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari running on iPhone, iPad, and macOS (Mac). It is a free and opensource app to block Ads and other stuff. Give it a try. apps.apple.com/us/app/ubloc...

This will surely solve a lot of problems when dealing with Named Entity Recognition and Relationship Extraction, fresh library released yesterday! Check it out #LLM #AI #pydata

The `sudo systemctl soft-reboot` on Linux is used for performing a userspace only reboot operation. It will reboot the Linux distro without the BIOS, UEFI or the hardware having to perform a complete cold boot. As a result your system reboots in seconds but will not load a new Linux kernel.

I ran an #rstats lab for many years before our foray into #pydata, so wouldn’t say my experience is super generalizable. But going back to play with R and seeing improvements to wasm and shinylive, ellmer, ragnar, vitals, and the entire tidy ecosystem reminded me just how batteries-included it is.

The open-source CapCut alternative to edit videos. No watermarks or subscriptions and works on all devices github.com/OpenCut-app/... #opensource #AppOfTheDay

Thought i'd share this video about the importance of luck in careers and how people expand and create networks through talking about what they love and by helping people out, definitely worth watching!

LocalSend is a cross-platform app that enables secure communication between devices HTTPS encryption (Airdrops like functionality). Unlike other messaging apps that rely on external servers, LocalSend doesn't require an internet connection or 3rd party servers, making it a fast and reliable solution

Opensource Terminal bandwidth utilization tool for Linux, macOS, Android, and Windows users and IT Professionals github.com/imsnif/bandw...

or lineage os, or crdroid.. also, you can just disable the AI services on your android. install adb, connect it to usb, enable usb debugging then: adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.aicore pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.as pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.apps.bard

I'm sharing this because lots of folks are sick of Gemini AI in Android or wish to de-google. So here is a quick view about Graphene OS. Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build lwn.net/SubscriberLi... Do as wish this info :) #privacy #security #android

FYI: I converted the file to Parquet and got it down to 130MB. So, I guess this is going to be my new favorite format for larger files.

Wow. I was sent a 5GB csv file which I just converted to RDS. It's now 400 MB Not bad, #rstats...

If you still voluntarily, personally subscribe to anything the NYT offers, you are a loathsome human being.

Didn't know about ibis! Also, lol

all of modern python data analysis packages are but reimplementing R packages plotnine -> ggplot2 ibis -> dplyr polars seems to also be heavily inspired by dplyr I also see packages using formula notation now (pyfixest for example)

*Learning visualization in Python as an R user* #ggplot

has Unix or Linux command (more like bash script) checks presence of various command line tools on the PATH and reports their installed version github.com/kdabir/has #linux #unix #opensource

nvtop (Neat Videocard TOP) is a htop-like task monitor CLI tool for AMD, Intel, Nvidia, and some other ARM GPUs, including Apple's. It can handle multiple GPUs and display their information in a htop-familiar way. Give it a try on your Linux server or desktop www.cyberciti.biz/hardware/nvt...

Stupid question alert but here we go anyway: I long-ago deleted my twitter account, I cannot cope with linkedin, but I need to get back into knowing what's going on in #rstats world. Anyone recommend specific feeds / people / other stuff to drag myself back into it? (or do I just trawl rstats)

Israel's military and groups of malevolent settlers are using innocent, starving, civilian Palestinians for mass target practice every day, and it is met with “¯\_(ツ)_/¯” by everyone who has some power to at least try to make them stop, and I honestly + fundamentally do not know why.

Open Source of the Week - the gt-extra library 👇🏼 I share about an open-source project on my newsletter 🗞️ weekly. This week, the focus was on a new extension to the great tables (gt) Python library - gt-extra. #python #datascience #dataviz

You need to use Python from time to time to truly appreciate #RStats...

That small act turned into a habit: ➡️ Fixing small bugs ➡️ Improving documentation ➡️ Asking questions ➡️ Following community discussions ➡️ Submitting thoughtful PRs

🧩 𝗪𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲? 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹 — 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁. When people ask how I got involved in open source, they’re often surprised by the answer: 📌 It started with 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗯𝘂𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝗶𝘁𝗛𝘂𝗯.

A Swedish economist just dropped a paper where he used data from a quarter of a billion chess.com games to test a classic Q: do “hot hands” exist? Finding: ✅ Wins predict wins ❌ But wins don’t cause wins Using random piece assignment, he finds that win streaks exist; but they’re just noise.

🚨Free data alert!! 🚨 Please share. Large new dataset of Amazon product reviews, including full text and photos and product characteristics, with individual *reviews labeled as fake reviews*. I believe this is the first publicly available data of this kind. github.com/bretthollenb...

stromy is a minimal, customizable and neofetch-like weather CLI for Linux, Unix, macOS & BSD, written in Go lang. Try it out ⤵️

Somehow I missed this. Positron Assistant gives you built-in code completions with GitHub copilot, and chat/agent with the Anthropic API. positron.posit.co/assistant.html h/t @josh.shapiro.foo 🎩 #Rstats

😲 🤯 Did you know you can add a _brand.yml to your _pkgdown.yml ?!

is there an observable js guide for ggplot2 nerds?

We are thrilled to announce gt-extras, a collection of helper functions for creating beautiful tables with the great-tables package in #Python! Add plots, icons, color gradients, and more to your tables. Learn more here: posit-dev.github.io/gt-extras/ar...

🚨 macOS Ollama[.app] folks: be SUPER CAREFUL with this app. The Ollama folks have been ignoring an important vulnerability for over 6 months. www.imperva.com/blog/hijacki... ☝🏽 Great work by Imperva researcher Ron Masas.

#rstats Dev Diary {leopard} pkg "Dev Leopard" is a new graphics device which simply(!) captures all the data transferred when plotting. You can use that data any way you'd like to recreate the plot! E.g. new hardware device, alternate SVG rendering backend etc.

Hey #Rstats! Just discovered `testthat::describe()`, it seems so much cleaner and more structured than `testthat::test_that()` for organizing tests🤩 But… why isn’t it more common? Even tidyverse packages barely use it. Am I missing something?

"AI will take our jobs", imagine having this LLM into a predefined workflow and it fails like this.