Actually, the cache problem is out of control. Initially everything is fast, but it relies on the cache so much that at the end you wait more due to slowness compared to the initial wait in the non-cache scenario.

Probably stuff like emacs would be also good, but again not for me. I would fell into the rabbit hole of tinkering it and not do any work.

To be fair, Apple Notes works for me too, I use it for quick notes. and I use CotEditor for long term. As long as, I can have folders, sync files across devices, and open it with other applications too. it is fine. CotEditor is just a simple text editor, like notepad with support for folders.

or one can even go one step further and put the following in .Rprofile, and just use randnum.

makeActiveBinding("randnum", function() {
as.integer(system("curl -s 'https://www.random.org/integers/?num=1&min=10000000&max=99999999&col=1&base=10&format=plain&ind=new'", intern = TRUE))
}, .GlobalEnv)

set.seed(as.integer(system("curl -s 'https://www.random.org/integers/?num=1&min=10000000&max=99999999&col=1&base=10&format=plain&ind=new'", intern = TRUE)))

or even better in your case.

set.seed(as.integer(system("get_seed", intern = TRUE)))

bird simulation in R: colab.research.google.com/drive/12i0ay...

a friend of mine wanted to generate data for splines. I was reading papers, and found a bird related one and thought it was funny

makefile for quarto: gist.github.com/utkuturk/a49...

It can build pdf and html from a quarto file, pushes relevant stuff to the github for git-pages publishing and pushes latex related stuff to overleaf if you have a git overleaf link.