Fun fact: I saved a database from Stata 15 in old format (i.e., compatible with Stata 13). I cannot view unicode characters in Stata GUI, but it works perfectly fine when run through Emacs/ESS! #stata

Back to a fully functional Spacemacs, after a complete reinstall. Some minor annoyances with MELPA actually, but nothing serious; fixed a weird bug with the ocaml layer, since I learned that the syntax-version layer should come before ocaml, but otherwise everything is fine. Also, I’m trying to go all Helm instead of Ivy. #emacs

Death Cab for Cutie, Thank You for Today. Just streaming the Apple alt’ radio:

I am not very lucky with Spacemacs these days. Now, SPC-/ to search project for text (aka, spacemacs/search-project-auto) is no longer working. Not funny, trust me. #emacs

  PJ Harvey, Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea.

A recent tweet reminded me of gtools, a Stata package that aims to speed up built-in command for data wrangling. I should give it a go. #stata

Hacker Tools: A user-friendly introduction to various command line utilities, editors and VCS. (via @newsycombinator)

Apache Arrow and Feather are two interesting projects that I think should be available in data science-related PLs. Recently, Rust joined the list, at least regarding Arrow: DataFusion: A Rust-native Query Engine for Apache Arrow. #rust

📖 Zoé Valdés, Une habanera à Paris (Gallimard, 2005)

Magithub (soon, forge) is now part of Spacemacs/magit. No need to add further configuration to your init.el. Today I was trying to send an issue for on one of my repo and I figured out that there’s some trouble at the moment. #emacs