This is the most elite change in #Positron, it's so calming. #rstats #python #databs

Trying something different with Mount Snow in neon. Am of two minds about the light reflections...maybe microfacet is better. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

This was supposed to be a draft render. Just a quick `render_highquality()` with no additional arguments. Is it me or does it already look pretty good? #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Power lines of the United Kingdom. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Found the code to do this strange attractor while looking for something else. Thought I'd see how fast I can render 360 frames of this with denoising. What used to take hours now takes slightly more than 60 minutes. #rayrender adventures, an #rstats tale

Zootopia 2 took hundreds of artists, TDs, and engineers to make; I was lucky enough to be a small part of it all! Here are some of my personal thoughts/notes from working on Zootopia 2, along with some pretty pictures. blog.yiningkarlli.com/2025/12/zoot...

Smart choice not updating. I enjoyed reading this post; really got at the UX issues with Tahoe. What's worse: Tahoe broke XQuartz and I have to rgl_widget() as a workaround. 😠

Power lines of Germany revisited, this time showing both OSM and derived power lines. Should have done this from the start but was afraid it'd take too long to render this many lines. Guess not! :) #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Mappy New Year! 🗺️ Kicking off 2026 with this triple polar vortex animation #Geospatial #GIS #GISChat #DataVisualization #Automation

Happy new year! My all sky camera imaged the sky every 15 seconds and this picture shows what happened in the sky in 2025. It shows the length of the night and day with the hourglass shape, the monthly lunar cycle with the diagonal bands, the elevation of the Sun at local noon, and lots of clouds.

Power lines of Germany. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Vegetarian Greek food restaurant called Don't Meat Your Gyros

This blog post on the proliferation of icons in macOS Tahoe makes the decision clear: I'm never updating to this cluttered mess. Where did your aesthetic taste go, Apple? Yuck. 🤮 Left: Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines Right: macOS Tahoe Read the post: tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i...

Introducing gdalcli by Andrew Brown -- an R frontend to GDAL’s unified CLI (≥3.11) 🌐 Compose and execute GDAL workflows with pipe-friendly functions. Learn more: github.com/brownag/gdal... #RStats #GDAL #Geospatial #OpenSource #RSpatial

Help! I'm trying to write a blog post but I've fallen into the customizing-my-quarto-blog quicksand! The more I struggle to get out the deeper I sink! I've written more CSS for this R blog post than R! #RStats #Quarto

heads up that bluesky doesnt show posts from other languages by default on your timeline, and its cutting you off from a lot of the community go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!

made a map of Beirut yesterday testing out a textured-greyscale style this time #maps #beirut #rayshader #qgis #gimp

Power lines of France. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

iterating on a map of Cuba via rayshader and gimp testing out some different coastline/hierarchy effects this time #cuba #rayshader #gimp #maps

Power lines of Italy. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

If this same thing is ever an issue for someone on a Mac just shake the cursor real fast and it'll magnify it so you can find it. I use this constantly bc I have two monitors and also way too much on them.

For the past few years, I have occasionally have had trouble finding the mouse pointer on my monitor. I just chalked it up to getting older ("I guess it's all downhill from here!"). But recently, I found a feature in Windows that draws a circle around the mouse when you hit CTRL...

more rayshader experimenting - made a quick map of Taiwan #taiwan #rayshader #maps

trying to learn how to use rayshader - made this map of Ireland during the process #ireland #rayshader #maps

Numerically modeling reproduces the proposed effect of closed depressions and highlights the role of depression breaching by gullies in the ultimate destruction of the tablelands, also observed in the real landscape (animation of one scenario, 3D perspective view with the help of #rayshader). 4/5

North Platte valley and tablelands to the south, western Nebraska. Tried to shade it to represent both varying vegetation cover and the colors of rock and sediment exposed on steeper slopes, stylistically, not super accurately. Lower bench above the floodplain is underlain by the Ogallala Grp... 1/2

Shiny for R v1.12 is here with built-in OpenTelemetry support! 🎉 Trace sessions and reactive calculations in production with zero code changes. Just install {otel}/{otelsdk} and set your env vars. Learn more: shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/s... #RStats #RShiny #OpenTelemetry

10 years of learning R and I'm always learning (i.e. banging my head against) new things: today's fun fact is that the code in .Rprofile is run **before** loading any of the default libraries, so stats::filter actually overrides dplyr::filter for once! Thanks for the confusing 5 minutes, #RStats.👍

Still working on the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming, now draped with units and approximate colors from the Love and Christensen Geologic Map of Wyoming. View from high above the Bighorn Basin. Next steps a legend or labels, I guess, and trying out different viewpoints & z factors. #rayshader #rayrender

apropos of nothing: using R to render a blue sky to post on bluesky #RStats #rayrender

i dont want to live in a world that values gambling apps and ai i want to live in a world that celebrates mustard and puppets

me, elephant, logging into any social media feed in 2025 #AI

these wicked cross-promotions are getting ridiculous #RStats

Another view of the Bighorns, from the west. I don't have the colors exactly where I want them, but getting there. #rayshader

Ships of the Gulf of México. Thought I'd try to overlay all of them on one viz this time. Probably clearer if I split them up, no? #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Better (Bighorn Mountains, work in progress).

Ships of the Mediterranean. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Yea, this only occurs in RStudio. In RStudio, it's "one shot" as you said. To RStudio, the whole file changed out from under it, so when you undo, you replace the whole file. To Positron, or any other LSP backed implementation, air sends over _edits_ that the IDE uses to actually modify the file.

Is there a "jump to last edit" keyboard command in RStudio or Positron? I've been working in a 4000 line {targets} pipeline and I've taken to hitting "CTRL-Z" to undo my last edits simply because it also has the side-effect of jumping to that part of the document. #RStats

Released a #Quarto extension for collapsible content blocks. Why? The {details} are inside. 📚 quarto.thecoatlessprofessor.com/details/ 💻 github.com/coatless-qua...

The people have always yearned for 3D, don’t let anyone try to convince you otherwise :)

A new release of vitals, a package for LLM evaluation in #rstats, is now on CRAN!🎄 This release includes all sorts of quality-of-life improvements; image support, precise latency measurement, better error messages, and more comprehensive logging. github.com/tidyverse/vi...

geomtextpath can really help make a plot easier to interpret. Nice to avoid using a legend. #rstats #dataviz

R: the language that sets the gold standard for dataviz! Anonymous user K. Midas says: "I love it!" (from a cheeky #rayshader figure in an upcoming blog post about rendering 3D plots with "golden hour" lighting by generating synthetic sunsets, entirely in #RStats with #rayrender)

‼️ Big #rayimage update (v0.23.0)! In addition to 'JPEG', 'PNG', 'TIFF', and 'EXR' files, `ray_read_image()` now supports loading 'TGA', 'BMP', 'PSD', 'GIF', 'HDR', 'PIC', and 'PNM' files (thanks to stb_image): It's a one-stop shop for bringing image data into #RStats. GH: github.com/tylermorganw...

#30DayMapChallenge · Day 26 · Transport. Take two. Ports of the Atlantic. Mostly. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

#30DayMapChallenge · Day 26 · Transport. Yet another visualisation of global shipping density. But it's engraved on metal with realistic light and shadow. Because we can do that in R. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

#30DayMapChallenge · Day 25 · Hexagons. Global biodiversity intactness. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Power lines of Nigeria. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale