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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 9h

Quarto friends! I need your help:

We are implementing a new QMD parser in Quarto. It will be super nice. But it's a big change, and we want to minimize the impact.

1. Can you share a link to your Quarto project at github.com/quarto-dev/q...
2. repost this and let your Quarto friends know too?

Epic: are we production yet · Issue #63 · quarto-dev/quarto-markdown

We need to check against many large sites to get a good sense for the impact of this new syntax in practice. autogenerated qmd quartodoc-generated sites (tbd meet with @machow) sites quarto.org Shi...

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mcc @dryad.technology · 4d

What I'm listening to today: "Olson"

Boards of Canada arranged to play on a DEC PDP-1 from 1959. The PDP-1 doesn't have sound, but it does have front-panel light bulbs for debugging, so they rewired the light bulb lines into speakers to create 4 square wave channels

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubk...

Boards of Canada "Olson" on a 1959 PDP-1 Computer

YouTube video by Joe Lynch

www.youtube.com

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Kevin Ushey @kevinushey.bsky.social · 9d

"hello and welcome back to hell"

Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response

YouTube video by hbomberguy

youtu.be

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Kevin Ushey @kevinushey.bsky.social · 15d

clearly i was so upset about this that I couldn't even spell "bug" correctly

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Kevin Ushey @kevinushey.bsky.social · 15d

Filling a big report immediately #rstats

An image from NYT Game's Spelling Bee, erroneously claiming that "tibble" is not a word.

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Kevin Ushey @kevinushey.bsky.social · 15d

I suspect the issues described are fixed in the latest daily builds of RStudio, available at dailies.rstudio.com/rstudio/cucu.... We're hoping to prepare a patch release from this branch within the next couple of weeks.

Cucumberleaf Sunflower

dailies.rstudio.com

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Kevin Ushey @kevinushey.bsky.social · 22d

I can't stop myself from bundling various fixes to other, unrelated issues in my PRs. I start working on a bug fix, find other bugs along the way, and then fix them all together as I go. And suddenly the resulting PR is a confusing mess because of all the unrelated changes.

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Kevin Ushey @kevinushey.bsky.social · 28d

it's me, i'm son #positconf2025

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Kevin Ushey @kevinushey.bsky.social · 28d

"The diagonal is a good place to be."

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Kevin Ushey @kevinushey.bsky.social · 28d

I am appreciating the brutal honesty from @pipinghotdata.com in her talk about {renv} #positconf2025

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Kevin Ushey @kevinushey.bsky.social · 28d

We should have a fix for this in the latest daily builds, and we're planning to prepare a patch release as soon as we can. dailies.rstudio.com

RStudio Latest Builds

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Sep 14

Kash Patel’s FBI puts two pounds of methamphetamine in the incinerator at an animal shelter, sending 14 people to the hospital, and exposing some 75 cats and dogs to the narcotic. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Animal shelter evacuated after FBI incinerates meth at facility

Fourteen staff were hospitalised and 75 cats and dogs evacuated.

www.bbc.com

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · Sep 11

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

www.tidyverse.org

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Kevin Ushey @kevinushey.bsky.social · Sep 11

This gives me hope!

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Washington State Department of Health @doh.wa.gov · Sep 5

We have issued a Standing Order for the COVID-19 vaccine, making it easier for WA residents to get vaccinated. Read more at doh.wa.gov/newsroom/doh...

DOH confirms COVID-19 vaccine position with new Standing Order

For immediate release: September 5, 2025 (25-104) Contact: DOH Communications

doh.wa.gov

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Charlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · Sep 5

tidyverse blog: mirai 2.5.0

www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...

This milestone release delivers enhanced observability through OpenTelemetry, reproducible parallel RNG, and key user interface improvements.

We’ve also packed in twice as many changes as usual!
#Rstats #tidyverse