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🧰 #Rstats / research software engineer.
🗒️ Blogger.
📦 Software review editor for @ropensci@fosstodon.org.
💜 #RLadies.
📈 PhD in statistics.
🍋 Nancy, France (let's say this emoji is a bergamot orange).
🧰 # Rstats / research software engineer. 🗒️ Blogger. 📦 Software review editor for @ ropensci . 💜 # RLadies . 📈 PhD in statistics. 🍋 Nancy, France (let's say this emoji is a bergamot orange).
🧰 # Rstats / research software engineer. 🗒️ Blogger. 📦 Software review editor for @ ropensci . 💜 # RLadies . 📈 PhD in statistics. 🍋 Nancy, France (let's say this emoji is a bergamot orange).
If you enjoy the coalesce operator %||%, did you know that you can enforce it through
- Jarl https://jarl.etiennebacher.com/rules/coalesce
- {lintr} https://lintr.r-lib.org/reference/coalesce_linter.html
(For older R versions you could use the same operator from {rlang})
🧰 # Rstats / research software engineer. 🗒️ Blogger. 📦 Software review editor for @ ropensci . 💜 # RLadies . 📈 PhD in statistics. 🍋 Nancy, France (let's say this emoji is a bergamot orange).
🧰 # Rstats / research software engineer. 🗒️ Blogger. 📦 Software review editor for @ ropensci . 💜 # RLadies . 📈 PhD in statistics. 🍋 Nancy, France (let's say this emoji is a bergamot orange).
I 💚 this especially the first one: "The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code" by Ally Piechowski
https://piechowski.io/post/git-commands-before-reading-code/
🧰 # Rstats / research software engineer. 🗒️ Blogger. 📦 Software review editor for @ ropensci . 💜 # RLadies . 📈 PhD in statistics. 🍋 Nancy, France (let's say this emoji is a bergamot orange).
🧰 # Rstats / research software engineer. 🗒️ Blogger. 📦 Software review editor for @ ropensci . 💜 # RLadies . 📈 PhD in statistics. 🍋 Nancy, France (let's say this emoji is a bergamot orange).
This, and more, in https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/04/02/tree-sitter-overview/
🧰 # Rstats / research software engineer. 🗒️ Blogger. 📦 Software review editor for @ ropensci . 💜 # RLadies . 📈 PhD in statistics. 🍋 Nancy, France (let's say this emoji is a bergamot orange).
🧰 # Rstats / research software engineer. 🗒️ Blogger. 📦 Software review editor for @ ropensci . 💜 # RLadies . 📈 PhD in statistics. 🍋 Nancy, France (let's say this emoji is a bergamot orange).
I wonder whether all posts like https://alexhwoods.com/dont-let-ai-write-for-you/ are written by people who love writing (I do!). 🤔
🧰 # Rstats / research software engineer. 🗒️ Blogger. 📦 Software review editor for @ ropensci . 💜 # RLadies . 📈 PhD in statistics. 🍋 Nancy, France (let's say this emoji is a bergamot orange).
🧰 # Rstats / research software engineer. 🗒️ Blogger. 📦 Software review editor for @ ropensci . 💜 # RLadies . 📈 PhD in statistics. 🍋 Nancy, France (let's say this emoji is a bergamot orange).
New post! Better Git diff with difftastic by @wilfredh@mastodon.social
A diffing tool that understands syntax and can
- ignore formatting changes
- match delimiters in wrappers
- ...
🧰 # Rstats / research software engineer. 🗒️ Blogger. 📦 Software review editor for @ ropensci . 💜 # RLadies . 📈 PhD in statistics. 🍋 Nancy, France (let's say this emoji is a bergamot orange).
🧰 # Rstats / research software engineer. 🗒️ Blogger. 📦 Software review editor for @ ropensci . 💜 # RLadies . 📈 PhD in statistics. 🍋 Nancy, France (let's say this emoji is a bergamot orange).
A page in Vasily Grossman's novel "Life and Fate" (written in 1959):
"An electronic machine can carry out mathematical calculations, remember historical facts, play chess and translate books from one language to another. It is able to solve mathematical problems more quickly than man and its memory is faultless. Is there any limit to progress, to its ability to create machines in the image and likeness of man? It seems the answer is no."
Rest in the book and https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/19595.Vasily_Grossman?page=3 (sorry)
🧰 # Rstats / research software engineer. 🗒️ Blogger. 📦 Software review editor for @ ropensci . 💜 # RLadies . 📈 PhD in statistics. 🍋 Nancy, France (let's say this emoji is a bergamot orange).
🧰 # Rstats / research software engineer. 🗒️ Blogger. 📦 Software review editor for @ ropensci . 💜 # RLadies . 📈 PhD in statistics. 🍋 Nancy, France (let's say this emoji is a bergamot orange).
I taught "Oops, Git! How to recover from common mistakes" today at Workshops for Ukraine. 🇺🇦
I learnt a lot from participants' questions! GitLens in Positron is even better than I had realized.
Thank you Dariia Mykhailyshyna for organizing. 🙏
Materials (you can still purchase the recording by donating): https://masalmon.eu/talks/2026-03-19-oops-git/
🧰 # Rstats / research software engineer. 🗒️ Blogger. 📦 Software review editor for @ ropensci . 💜 # RLadies . 📈 PhD in statistics. 🍋 Nancy, France (let's say this emoji is a bergamot orange).
🧰 # Rstats / research software engineer. 🗒️ Blogger. 📦 Software review editor for @ ropensci . 💜 # RLadies . 📈 PhD in statistics. 🍋 Nancy, France (let's say this emoji is a bergamot orange).
Yesterday I got to present what I painstakingly learnt about
✨ extending roxygen2 ✨
🧰 # Rstats / research software engineer. 🗒️ Blogger. 📦 Software review editor for @ ropensci . 💜 # RLadies . 📈 PhD in statistics. 🍋 Nancy, France (let's say this emoji is a bergamot orange).
🧰 # Rstats / research software engineer. 🗒️ Blogger. 📦 Software review editor for @ ropensci . 💜 # RLadies . 📈 PhD in statistics. 🍋 Nancy, France (let's say this emoji is a bergamot orange).
Did you know that you can specify a pathspec when using Git bisect, if you know what file/folder is responsible for the bug you are chasing?
(Someone asked this during my Git tutorial at uRos)
🧰 # Rstats / research software engineer. 🗒️ Blogger. 📦 Software review editor for @ ropensci . 💜 # RLadies . 📈 PhD in statistics. 🍋 Nancy, France (let's say this emoji is a bergamot orange).
🧰 # Rstats / research software engineer. 🗒️ Blogger. 📦 Software review editor for @ ropensci . 💜 # RLadies . 📈 PhD in statistics. 🍋 Nancy, France (let's say this emoji is a bergamot orange).
Did "Writing R Extensions" go to a beauty salon?!
🧰 # Rstats / research software engineer. 🗒️ Blogger. 📦 Software review editor for @ ropensci . 💜 # RLadies . 📈 PhD in statistics. 🍋 Nancy, France (let's say this emoji is a bergamot orange).
🧰 # Rstats / research software engineer. 🗒️ Blogger. 📦 Software review editor for @ ropensci . 💜 # RLadies . 📈 PhD in statistics. 🍋 Nancy, France (let's say this emoji is a bergamot orange).
"A Gentle Introduction to Open Science"
I love this post by @steffilazerte@fosstodon.org on @rOpenSci@hachyderm.io. Gentle indeed, and pragmatic.
