The Global FOSS4G conference in Auckland is just a few weeks away! I'm sorry I forgot to share this here, but I'm excited to be speaking about the state of GeoArrow **on the web**.

21th November, 11:00–11:25
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savvy v0.8.13 is released!🎉 This version contains a small improvement to handle a scalar NA nicely. This is what I felt a bit boring when I ported a package from extendr to savvy.

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I created a small DuckDB extension to choose file interactively using native file open dialogs. Now you can install this via Community Extensions repository!

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Today was my first day at MIERUNE Inc., a GIS company in Hokkaido, Japan. Very excited to dive into the world of open source GIS 🌏!

A real example of lines with non-full-width glyphs. You can see these are slightly misaligned.

Here's the sneak-peek.

A slide which I decided to delete from tomorrow's presentation at #JapanR because I just found I know too little about graphics to talk about ggplot3.

From a while ago, {string2path} package can parse color emoji fonts (COLRv1) 🐯 I already posted this on Fosstodon, but let me post an animation again because this looks fun. #rstats

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Experimental feature: now my R graphics device can render Lottie animations 🐯

savvy 0.8.0 is released! savvy is a framework to use Rust from R.

Like anyhow, now you can use `?` to propagate any error that implements the `std::error::Error` trait 🎉

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