Gabor Csardi

I just pushed a better hint system for rstickr.dev. You get the first letter of every word, sorted alphabetically. You also get two tables, one that shows how many words start with each letter and one that shows how many start with each 2-letter combo; and both count down as you go. #rstickr

New on the @posit.co open source blog: if you step away from your coding agent long enough to make a coffee, your next message could cost ~16x as much☕ @sara-altman.bsky.social and I wrote about token caching and AI costs: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-10...

I made an AI video about genzplyr and I lowkey love it. It's also 100% slop. In this post I dig into what makes something slop, when it's ok to share it, and how to avoid it in work that matters. Read more at: substack.hadley.nz/p/what-is-slop

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These courageous testimonies are very much worth knowing about, and also worth keeping in mind (as the author pointed out to me) as we consider what it means to take Russia’s side. "Rape as a weapon of war: The voices of Ukrainians" by Sara Cincurova snyder.substack.com/p/rape-as-a-...

💥An Israeli think tank whose "sovereignty index" and studies reached reputable media and academia is actually part of a Russian influence operation. Leaks show the Kremlin's propaganda firm Social Design Agency planned influence ops as early as 2024. VSquare.org

In other words: “You brown people should be grateful to live in a country where the vice-president calls you weasels in public”

Step by step, day by day, Americans experience the big platforms becoming Orwellian political censors. The US needs a federal government that will tax them and break them up; the democratic world needs to learn the lesson and protect itself.

No amount of support for Russia can end the war, because Russia is the criminal aggressor. A modicum of support for Ukraine could, however, end the war, by making it impossible for Russia to continue. This should not be a hard choice.

Third blog post about rig 0.11.0, the new version of the R installation manager, about managing R projects, virtual environments and standalone R scripts: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-10... #RStats

Excited to share my latest blog on Posit Open Source! During my internship, I built 10 apps and 5 computational biology packages using R, Python, Shiny, and Shinyreact to make scientific research more accessible, especially in rare diseases and cancer. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-10...

This is absolutely insane, I just rendered this effectively 3.1 billion triangles 900 frame 16 sample per pixel 960x540 animation in #RStats last night in 6 hours using the M1 GPU and #rayrender -- it would have taken a WEEK with the CPU renderer. Completely game changing for iterative work

Big news: ggsql 0.5.0 reaches beta status! Build publication-quality plots from SQL without moving to #RStats or #Python. Custom renderer outputs PDF/SVG, hybrid mode works with read-only DBs, and built-in markdown text formatting. SQL-native data viz is here ⚡ opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-09...

I made a macOS screensaver that draws the warming stripes one year at a time. It holds all 1,069 locations from showyourstripes.info and nine ways to build each picture. Free download. Stripes by Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org karaman.is/blog/2026/10... #ShowYourStripes #dataviz #macOS

Second blog post about rig 0.11.0: manage R packages with rig. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-10... #Rstats

In case you weren't able to make it, @sara-altman.bsky.social and I wrote up the talk for the @posit.co OSS blog. We talked about the rise of "vibe analysis," the pitfalls of human-in-the-loop, and some new software from Posit. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-10...

I'm trying to get better at making short explanatory videos, using AI to radically decrease production time while hopefully still keeping the human touch. I'd love to know what you think of this video that briefly introduces S7: youtube.com/shorts/C98di...

We released rig 0.11.0, the #Rstats installation manager, this week (and 0.10.0 a bit before). New: a website at rig.r-lib.org, user mode R installations, R package management and R projects. First of three blog posts, on R installations: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-10...

I just rebuilt my website using Quarto 🎉 My publication list generates itself from my Zotero library, and papers include links to materials and OA versions. The website's first post is on how to build your own, featuring an app that does all the coding for you: dsquintana.com/posts/quarto...

Went on live TV news last night talking about AI safety and #biosecurity

i'm dead 💀 opusfived.dev

New aerial footage shows the Wildberries complex in Elektrostal fully engulfed in flames. Firefighting efforts appear unable to contain the blaze, and the building is likely beyond saving. #Ukraine

Inspiring talk from Dariia Mykhailyshyna about teaching and surveying the R community in Ukraine while in the midst of a war. #rstats #useR2026

Air 0.10.0 is out now! - Enforce `<-` or `=` throughout your #rstats code (only one of these is correct though 😉) - Tighter Positron and RStudio integration - pre-commit / prek support - stdin support - Install with uv, mise, or pixi Read all about it! opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

If you manage #Rstats with rig, make sure you use the new rig 0.8.1 to install the new R 4.6.1 version on macOS: github.com/r-lib/rig#id... github.com/r-lib/rig/re...

Excited to present at EEA Dublin in August - until I found two invited presenters affiliated with Russia's Higher School of Economics. HSE has backed the invasion of Ukraine and fundraised for its military. I feel unsafe sharing a room with people raising money to kill my family. #EconSky

Extremely proud and excited that @ropensci.org's community manager @yabellini.bsky.social has been selected for a @sovereign.tech fellowship! It's a much-deserved recognition of her work making #rstats open to all, and a key endorsement of community-building as a fundamental pillar of open-source.

#Rstats package update: zip 3.0.0 with some very cool new things: password protected zip files, vectorized and concurrent unzip(), unzip over HTTP, progress bars. Full change log at github.com/r-lib/zip/re...

I'm alive *AND* I wrote a blog post?! Unheard of! Much 💖 to @abbycabs.dev, and @grafana.bsky.social's David Allen and Amanda Wagner whose FOSDEM talk's were a huge source of inspo!

I updated the gh #Rstats package last week to version 1.6.0. It won't fail with GitHub's new token format now. Full change log at github.com/r-lib/gh/rel...

Really excited to be on today's #DSLab! If you've ever wondered about what Parquet is and why you should use it, join us later today! 🎉 #rstats

💻 RStudio addins now run in Positron through the command palette, including the addins from my annotater package (despite relying heavily on the rstudioapi pkg for modifying open files!) Nice! #rstats

Gribouille v0.1.0: a Grammar of gGraphics for Typst. Modelled on ggplot2, drawn on cetz. Declare plots with aes, geom-*, facet-wrap and themes; compose hoists a shared legend. One toolchain, data straight to PDF. mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2026-0... #typst #rstats #grammarOfGraphics #ggplot2 #cetz

I completely agree with opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05... TOML seemed like a good format, until I learned the gory details while writing github.com/gaborcsardi/...