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Matt Kerlogue
@mattkerlogue.bsky.social
Freelance data/numbers/pretty charts, typically in #rstats.

He/him, alphabet mafia type 🏳️‍🌈, SE London.

https://github.com/mattkerlogue
https://matt.kerlogue.co.uk
You got the eggs the wrong way round, should have had scrambled eggs today given the book title.
November 14, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Though also very much aware we’re two British men commenting on a subnational election in a country we don’t live in (though somewhere we have a lot of exposure to).
November 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Agreed, but also can’t ignore the effect that such wins might have to re-energise the wider movement which has been very much in the doldrums the last 12 months.
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I revive mail and deliveries for all 4 other properties on my street. I sometimes feel like a mini post office. Though sometimes is the other people’s fault (rather than RM/delivery folk) because they accidentally select my address rather than their own.
October 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Even more frustrating is that while I’m no 4 proper (and upstairs is 4A) there’s also three other number 4’s on my street: two ‘Flat 4, No X/Y’ with the same post code as me, and also one No 4 ‘XXX houses’ but with a different post code.
October 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I think a lot of this is due to utilities companies. I’m no 4 in the PAF, but ground floor flat with at least one utility and ‘lower ground’ with another (even though the flat doesn’t have any space below ground level).
October 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
People always find it weird I have my parents listed with their full names rather than just "Mum" or "Dad".
October 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I unsubscribed the other week after I finished SNW S3 (will resub for S4) with that film still un watched. I doubt I’ll ever watch it. The trailer didn’t make it at all appealing.
September 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Britpop wasn’t awful
June 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
It’s a kindness
June 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
It’s the same with rail nationalisation, which I much more pro, but “GB Railways” just hurts.
June 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
These days I’m not entirely anti-ID cards, but calling it “BritCard” I’m definitely against that.
June 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Or more simply:

quarto head content
_head.html (stuff to include at end of <head>)
_header.html (stuff to include at start of <body>)
quarto body content
_footer.html (stuff to include at end of <body>)

Fragments should start with underscores otherwise quarto thinks they're like a proper qmd file
May 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
This image is my rough understanding of how quarto generates/structures its HTML output.
May 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
No, this comes after `page-footer` which is part of the quarto generated content. This is one of three "includes" that prepend/append to the content. You can specify these either in the page or project YAML.

quarto.org/docs/referen...
HTML Options – Quarto
quarto.org
May 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
format:
html:
include-after-body: _footer.html
May 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
You can supply an HTML fragment to the `include-after-body` to be appended after the content rendered by quarto.
May 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
😂😂😂
April 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
"Llamas are liars"... ah yes, I'm always using that common retort: "You know, you're a real llama, always lying to me"
April 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Reposted by Matt Kerlogue
"Llamas can't tell the truth" apparently means that somebody is being "exceptionally honest"
April 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"Llamas can't tell the truth" apparently means that somebody is being "exceptionally honest"
April 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
there's also tidyxl which returns a data frame whereby each row is an individual cell and provides detailed metadata about each cell, there's an associated package unpivotr which allows you to process complex/messy spreadsheet structures like multi-column/multi-row grouping labels.
April 20, 2025 at 11:39 PM
readxl is my go to for reading in a spreadsheet as a simple data frame. openxlsx2 allows more complex interactions including writing back with formatting etc and constructing a multi-sheet workbook
April 20, 2025 at 11:39 PM