Just learned of {httr2} (https://github.com/r-lib/httr2), a rewrite of R’s httr package, and am excited to try it out! The pipeable API looks like a nicely improved way to build complex requests.

I spent a good chunk of my Sunday playing the brilliant Citizen Sleeper. It has this amazing balance of insightful and moving writing, tense mechanics, and gradually revealed countdowns to critical gameplay events. It’s really great!

Any friends have firsthand experience comparing the Magic Trackpad and Magic Mouse? I’d like to get some gestures back now that I’m using a Mac for work at my desk.

I: Spend days carefully curating config files, reinstalling homebrew and trying variations of arm and x86 binaries

RStudio: Do you even ODBC, bro?

I: Just profanely put the path to the driver in the dbConnect call, disregarding all documentation and common sense.

RStudio: Yah here’s your SQL Server.

Dearest Ada, it has been two days since I began editing odbcinst.ini, and still SQL Server repels me. Tomorrow, we will sudo brew reinstall FreeTDS. With our persistence, someday, odbc::odbcListDrivers() shall yield results and I will be at peace.

/wistful violins

Yesterday in a busy Discord I suggested that what it really needed is a digest function, and then realized I was just describing listserv.

Making adjustments to kiddo’s Minecraft server and am continuously grateful that the answer to “how did I do that?” is almost always found in the fish shell history.

SourceCodeSyntaxHighlight is a great drop-in plugin to enable syntax highlighting in the MaxOS finder’s quick view. Just what I needed to improve the experience of scanning json files in the finder!

Inside blogball technical note: using Drafts along with the new, better-integrated photo upload and posting method I put together this weekend is game-changing. I underestimated, in part, how absolutely great it would be to have a cross-platform scratch pad that hooks everything together so well.

Apropos of just sitting here with it tinkering things in with RStudio, this M1 MacBook Pro still feels extraordinarily good, a month+ in.