Carlos Scheidegger
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Carlos Scheidegger
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Principal Engineer at Posit (fka RStudio), technical lead at quarto.org

Learning Brazilian Choro and the 7-string guitar
Leave it to me to spoonerize a shitpost
- it’s the other way around. Oh well
November 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
yup - I think this straightforwardly falls out of (a point I believe you've often made!) the democratic party being genuinely captured by Bain et al. That kind of stuff (... maybe?) works for companies. But politics is not the same as companies competing. It's a category mistake!
November 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I remember being in my prime
November 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Magical realism is the end state of “fiction carcinization” or something
November 13, 2025 at 11:17 PM
“Tangle” or what are we even doing
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I'm not entirely proud of having thought "oh no, can this asshole be better cited than me?", followed by checking out his Google Scholar and breathed a sigh of relief.

Feels bad to still have this particular toxic academic instinct, but I don't know, man... embarrassing CV from which to write that
November 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
this book _rules_
November 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
where's Chotiner when we _really_ need him
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
For me at least, maybe not the people around me lol
November 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Very cool. Now I'm daydreaming a CubeCon-like event.

Everyone brings their own shared deck/graveyard deck. Deck and starting player for game 1 is decided randomly and independently of each other; loser of previous game chooses deck and starting player for next game
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
(the whole thing is :chefskiss:) but what a sick-ass manabase
November 8, 2025 at 4:48 AM
We wish we had the technology to observe the passage of time in a device we could carry on our wrists or in our pockets. Sadly we haven’t invented that yet
November 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM