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Radovan Bast
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theoretical chemist turned research software engineer - CodeRefinery, open science, research, software, data, computing, teaching, oceanography, computational geometry, baking, occasional 8-bit stuff - he/him
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A bug in my code produced a psychedelic map. This was supposed to look very different but I liked the result. #dataviz
Screenshot from a buggy data visualization code which produced a psychedelic looking map.
September 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Looking back at years of doing web development with a tiny browser console log window and complaining about it until I learned that I can configure it to use a separate window.
Screenshot from movie "Being John Malkovich" where employees work in offices with very low ceiling.
July 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Having fun typing a blog post about how to call #rustlang from #Fortran. It's all about choosing the right tools.
Image of the draft table of contents which looks like written with a typewriter.
March 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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TIL about this very cool #map of bedrock by the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU): geo.ngu.no/kart/berggru...
Screenshot of the National bedrock database map.
March 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Time to archive data. #FiveThirtyEight
#!/usr/bin/env bash for repo in ap-election-loader \ data \ pym.js \ multi-slider \ uber-tlc-foil-response \ d3-pre-renderer \ d3-pre-cli \ d3-pre \ gulp-d3-pre \ oscar-ads \ react-color \ victory \ victory-chart \ guns-data \ nfl-elo-game \ redistricting-atlas-data \ russian-troll-tweets \ actblue-analysis \ checking-our-work-data \ twitter-overlap \ candidate-emails \ nba-player-advanced-metrics \ covid-19-polls \ WNBA-stats \ superbowl-ads \ police-settlements \ negro-leagues-player-ratings \ election-results \ github-actions \ ai2html; do git clone --mirror https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/${repo}.git done
March 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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CATS: do not install python packages into base
January 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Thanks so much to the developers of jupyterlab-code-formatter.readthedocs.io

This is how the button looks:
screenshot of how the button looks in a Jupyter Notebook
January 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Auto - formatting code in JupyterNotebooks can be
done with a single click!

🖱️✨

Auto-formatting code in #Jupyter Notebooks can be done with a single click!

With this wonderful extension:
environment.yml containing the dependencies: black, isort, and jupyterlab-code-formatter
January 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Bash script which first converts the image to black and white using a threshold, and then in a second step counts connected components.
December 19, 2024 at 10:00 PM
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Today I had fun finding out that #ImageMagick can be used to count objects in an image (my example was to process generated "telescope" images of stars which I use in teaching parallel computing):
Generated image representing a telescope image of stars.
December 19, 2024 at 10:00 PM