Meanwhile, I’ve been playing with OpenBSD a bit more, and guess what: Kitty terminal emulator is available there too. I’m impressed by the number of packages that are readily available: Kitty, Neomutt and Neovim work right out of the box. I wish Linux (Ubuntu) was using /usr/local as the default user directory for local programs, this would simplify config files a lot! #unix

What a week (or two, in fact)! Just starting to feel better right now, after three days at the hospital. I should be ready for the next 8 years, hopefully.

New Post: An Ode to Stable Interfaces, and Praise To Base R and R Core

In which I run code I posted fourteen years ago: it works unaltered. That should be cherished, celebrated--and encouraged. We need more examples like this.https://t.co/9khR7TwRk0#rstats #reproducibility pic.twitter.com/BKS0GXjRGs

— Dirk Eddelbuettel (@eddelbuettel) March 20, 2021

I moved out last week, and moved in right away. I just finished unpacking all the boxes. What a journey! I’m exhausted, and I probably need a few weeks to recover. In the meantime, here is the new home office:

Random effects and penalized splines are the same thing. #rstats

Remember this, or this, or even this? I cleaned it up today:

Visualization is a spectrum: from exploratory to explanatory. — 10 Years of Open-Source Visualization

Git is my buddy: Effective Git as a solo developer. #git

Vim text-objects for Python development. #vim

I’ve come to believe that working through something is the only way to explore the idea maze. Everything else is commentary. I’ve mostly stopped sharing unsolicited “helpful” just-a-thoughts and comments at work. — Commenting vs. making