witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

I had to read this, and so do you now

🎉 We've just moved @ropensci.org on Bluesky to a fully independent account! We were previously bridged from our Mastodon account via Bridgy Fed. Same community, same content, fresh start. Give us a follow if you haven't already! 🦋 #RStats

Good news for Europe: posit::conf's virtual pass now includes auto-subtitles in French, Spanish, Portuguese, German & Italian 🎉 Plus a virtual workshop on 9/14, multiple time slots, and recordings within hours — easy to catch afternoon US sessions next morning. Join us virtually!

Absolute soccer

Hell yeah

Yeah man, that’s what experience buys you

GLM 5.2 is that good, huh?

If you're a type designer putting ligatures in monospace type, rest assured we're working hard to create a special hell for you individually, where every sign will be kemed as wrongly as possible

Fluid people: are those karman vortices, or more like Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities?

Have you ever thought about these displays? On top of them being circular, you have to flip the x coordinates of one of the sides (or that of the videos). Pretty weird and neat!

Excuse me?

one of the worst mistakes people make is confusing bad mental health with radicalism

Another homework assignment; this is (mostly) the B section of Pixinguinha's Cochichando

Apple's DAWs and video editing UIs suck so, so much. It's unforgivable. Apple, you ought to know better. What are you doing with Final Cut and Logic? You're abusing your "creative user base", it's genuinely indefensible

Here you go.

This is a fun video www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYU3..., and I definitely wasn't ready for the "With Gentry Lee" surprise scifi writer crossover

lets go

... yeah, actually I think this is quite accurate

For once I timed a big apple purchase well, huh 👀

Ugh, this looks harrowing for Venezuelans

Reader, these are from the same comment Please join me in involuntary eye-twitching

Hey, I know. I get it! But also, look at this treasure of a day. Just look at it!

New version of quarto-shapes and quarto-revealjs-editable today! shapes now include callouts with custom anchor direction, and editable now have full shapes support! github.com/EmilHvitfeld... github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto #slidecrafting

Happy to finally announce the CRAN release of {debrief}, a new package to let AI agents better interface with the output of the {profvis} package Making it so you can work with you AI agent more efficiently to profile and write faster R code! opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06... #rstats #dataBS

Pieces of math exposition that highlight the danger of conflating correspondence with identity get a lot of respect in this here house

A good article on Geometric Algebra? That I found on Hacker News?? (tl;dr wedge products good, everything else not great) I love the social aspect being discussed here as well. alexkritchevsky.com/2024/02/28/g...

Sometimes I don’t like having read Ministry for the Future

Now, that one counts.

Uglier than the offsides one but we’ll take anything at this point

Pound for pound, automerge is my current bet for the single technology that can do the most to get us out of this tech mess we find ourselves in

Hello father, it's been four hours since last confession. This afternoon I created a LinkedIn account

hello father, it's been a week since last confession. today I have failed to walk away from idiots on the internet

More q2 sneak peaks (now @elliot.website and @gordonwoodhull.bsky.social's work!) this is the kind of thing we want our new preview mode to do: you can work on the preview document directly, and changes here will reflect back on your .qmd file. This will also work on the collaborative editor

A massive congrats to R Core for this great honour. R has been the foundation of my career and it wouldn’t have been possible without years of work from them.

Rust friends: what pitfalls of publishing crates on cargo do you wish you knew about before doing that for the first time?

Friends, this thing with the cleats being all the same. Is that… because everyone asked an LLM? Like, you see it at least a little, right?

... huh.

The account I responded to here—one that posts ultrabland LLM-flavored “warmth” in people’s replies 24 hrs a day without pause—blocked me so fast I didn’t even get a screenshot. I’m chill about a lot of things but cutesy bots replying uninvited is a deeply antisocial time-thieving pattern.

you love to see a good, on-topic @statmodeling.bsky.social snark cameo

I think, in the end, that the various Reasons people give for why it's good and fine that they are very aggro on this here internet and actually this is upholding the true and the good and the beautiful are always a bit less persuasive than: no you're not, you're just being weirdly mean, stop it.

One of the coolest things I've recently learned is that good modern text CRDTs represent text - efficiently enough to store only about 10% more than your typical "text is a finite sequence of unicode characters" basics - richly enough to give you fundamentally better diff/merging forever

Another observation for the "the problem it's not that they don't work; the problem is that they do" column In the last 2-3 months, LLM-generated PRs have moved from "incoherent garbage" to "does the thing the title says" But good software doesn't solve the X in an instance of the X-Y problem.

sometimes it appears useful for the universe that its people underestimate the amount of work that lies ahead of a necessary decision 😳

Watching soccer on 4K@60Hz _is_ remarkable, all things considered

Imagine 1) living in NYC and 2) writing this in the backdrop of current NYC. I do mean this sincerely: does this asshole know just how much his self-hatred is showing?

one bit of somewhat-contrarian career advice I'd give is to have convictions and pay serious attention to values, not just comp. After deciding to leave Meta, Oxide was the only role I applied to — was pretty convinced those were my people

Hey, that's Fogo Azul!!

today I discovered this incredible story of a minor league pitcher who is 6'4 wears glasses and a ginger beard who hurt his elbow and went to the doc for Tommy John surgery and was mistaken for a pitcher from a diff team who was also there for TJ surgery on same day anyway heres their pics and names

I’m happy for ny and the knicks, and what op says is also fun and true. But let’s be real here: Golf < basketball < baseball < soccer < football < rugby < hockey < handball < volleyball < tennis