whispering VSCode plus a couple of extensions is a really nice environment for writing markdown.

Had a great time hanging out, learning, and getting inspired by things at #csvconf the last couple of days. Go 🦙!

Any micro.blog users who are into the nb bookmarking/note taking tool? I recently started to experiment with it and am wondering if there is some good blogging/write ups out there about it. It’s pretty cool.

I stacked the clacky keyboard on the MacBook for some Sunday morning RStudio time.

I can have some new keycaps, as a treat.

Can confirm that getting into cool mechanical keyboards has made me at least 60% more productive, where productivity is measured in talking about mechanical keyboards in unrelated settings.

There’s probably a pretty good talk/paper for somebody to write on the comparative trajectories of R-Help’s evolution to today’s R community, as compared to the FSF’s brief rejection and subsequent bear-hugging of RMS.

Big technology weekend for my kiddo: Yesterday he walked through the instructions to set up a new Minecraft server on my little NUC running Ubuntu. And, today, he gets his very own 1Password vault. They grow up so fast.

My .vimrc could probably use a lot more cleanup, but I adjusted it just enough yesterday that I think it appears easy enough to grab for any new machine or server I would happen to use.

I’m just a simple country sociologist, but this fawning pro-NFT article seems quantitatively unsteady with assertions like “assume you instantly zero out 50% commission to double your revenue,” and “just slice your art infinitely to capture more revenue under the demand curve.”