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Just sent a you a DM. I look forward to reading it!

I like the framing thus far.

Any chance you'd have a pre-print of the chapter you'd be willing to share? I'm part of a group of storytellers who meet weekly to discuss these elements. I'd might be able to get you more feedback.

If not, no worries. I look forward to seeing the published version.

With PPT and GSlides it's nice to just click an 'align vertical/horizontal' button. The alignment bars to show center are just useful.

I'm sure if my CSS skills were stronger, it would be a more enjoyable, efficient experience.

Huge fan of #quarto and revealJS. Attempting to make it my default.

Alignment of different in-slide elements, especially if there's lots of them on a slide. You can only adjust .absolute values so many times before it gets tiring.

The back and forth loop of going to the browser, inspect tool, back to the IDE can be a drag.

The rounded corners turned way up got to me. Why not just make everything a circle, then?

The liquid glass also makes the Menu Bar un-readable at times, depending on your background.

TIL a quick way to count the number of files in a directory from the command line:

`ls -1 | wc -l`

Helpful 👨‍💻

Huge fan of this. It's also nice to grep a project to get a quick TODO and FIX list from time to time. Very helpful!

Oh, if you want to see your currently available aliases, run `alias`.

Cheatsheet 🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,400+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, pyth...

TIL: oh-my-zsh has some pretty useful built-in aliases to quickly change directories while at the command line.

Been a long-time user, so IDK how I missed these: github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmy...

Commit only part of a file's changes in Git When I make changes to a file in Git, how can I commit only some of the changes? For example, how could I commit only 15 lines out of 30 lines that have been changed in a file?

This answer on SO has a good description of the available options: stackoverflow.com/a/1085191

The BEST git command you've never heard of | GIT ADD PATCH YouTube video by typecraft

TIL: `git add --patch` or `git add -p`. Very useful.

Learning about it helped level up my #git game.

More here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=blbz...

Chili and cinnamon rolls: 'Warm, welcoming and a little unexpected' — just like Nebraska - Flatwater Free Press “People love a dish with a backstory,” one commenter said. “That’s one of the major appeals to chili and cinnamon rolls. Whether it’s served at school cafeterias or a community supper, it’s comforting...

Did I just dig through @mattwaite.bsky.social 's replies all the way back to 2024 to reply with this: flatwaterfreepress.org/chili-and-ci....

Yep. I'll double down on Matt's offer @hadley.nz .

Also, TIL this subject goes way deeper than just calculating a simple point in time. It was a fun little rabbit hole I fell into.

GitHub - adokter/suntools: R package to calculate sun position, sunrise, sunset, solar noon and twilight R package to calculate sun position, sunrise, sunset, solar noon and twilight - adokter/suntools

Had one of those fun moments getting an answer to 'I wonder if there's an #RStats package for that?'

Calculating sunrise and sunset times? Yep, there's a package for that: `suntools`

📦🔗: github.com/adokter/sunt...

I haven't received an email, yet. I'll keep an eye out.

Thanks for the heads up.

GitHub - r-lib/actions: GitHub Actions for the R community GitHub Actions for the R community. Contribute to r-lib/actions development by creating an account on GitHub.

Spent some time learning more about @github.com Actions today.

Thankful for r-lib's #RStats actions. It makes getting up and going way easier: github.com/r-lib/actions

The use of caching for setting up R's dependencies is also 🤌.

`TODO: Fix this ...` is the message I write to my future self.

My past self is unhelpful from time to time 😂

Awesome list. Thanks for sharing!

I'll have to check out the tech and psychology podcasts.

+1 to 99% Invincible. It was my entry point to the world of podcasting.

Any good recommendations?

Parsing PDFs with Antigravity – Matt Waite’s Collection of Miscellany In a word: Gobsmacked.

Might be related: mattwaite.github.io/posts/2025-1...

@mattwaite.bsky.social was gobsmacked with Antigravity. Good read. Check it out.

Great read! Thanks for sharing.

Winners of the 2025 Table Contest - Posit We had many submissions to the Posit 2025 Table Contest and this post will show you the winners, the special prize recipients, and the runners up!

Seeing this years @posit.co table contest winners was inspiring: posit.co/blog/2025-ta.... It's amazing to see the functionality others came up with.

My favorite? Leo Ohyama's: github.com/leoohyama/po... .

The ticker at the top was a really neat idea.

#RStats #dataBS

So much to learn observing other's work. Very helpful find. Thanks for sharing!

Understanding the native R pipe |> – %>% dreams Or, why mtcars |> plot(hp, mpg) doesn’t work and what you can do about it.

Nice, thanks for the share. I’ll have to check it out.

@ivelasq3.bsky.social also has a really good write up: ivelasq.rbind.io/blog/underst...

2022, time flies …

Hey @tylerclark12.bsky.social, I’m on the base |> train.

Reviewing old code with the %>% just reminds of a time getting started with R. Like the times spent with folks learning in the @dslc.io book clubs.

That feeling of nostalgia when you look at some old #RStats code using magrittr's `%>%`.

Taking a moment to pause and reflect on some good times.

This … This is is why I’m here.

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Thank you so much, Jen! If all goes well, that submission will be the final #TidyTuesday for 2025! It is *so* helpful when people submit datasets! I've been able to implement features to catch errors in datasets, and I have more on the way. Maybe I'll even finally finish the easier to use website!

Today I read: How I build software quickly from @evanhahn.com: evanhahn.com/how-i-build-...

Some great advice within. Three sections really landed for me:

1. embrace rough drafts
2. make small changes.
3. avoid wandering the code.

Good read. I highly suggest others check it out.

Big fan of this! Thanks for the idea.