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#RStats #Python #QGIS #RSpatial #SQL 🌐💻📊🐕| Environment and climate🌦🌿🦔| Veganism 🌱🐾| Music, film, books, cycling. All views my own. #noindex 🌉 bridged from ⁂ hachyderm.io/@cd_newton, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
Any #rspatial folks ever encountered an issue like this with leaflet.extras when using addSearchFeatures()? The zoom parameter doesn’t seem to work as expected when multiple groups with the same geometry are used, but seems fine with different geoms […]
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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
The Eternal Daughter was the most affecting film I’ve seen in a while. The cinematography and general atmosphere might be suggestive of a ghost/horror film but it’s much more subtle and understated than that; more of a meditation on loss/grief and the fact that other’s inner worlds can be […]
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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
Dogs Trust (UK) are looking to hire a data officer in the Data Science and Analytics team (team I’m in! My colleagues are great; I try my best). Remote role (with occasional travel) using #Rstats or #Python with #SQL - full details below […]
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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
Took an old, not very fancy guitar amp in for a service somewhere prior to selling it, thinking that “recently professionally serviced/checked” would be a good selling point and cost more than the amp’s worth and has come back not working _at all_ 🫠
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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
Encountered a geometry column called ‘the_geom’ today, that was a first… #RSpatial #GISchat
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Stefano on littleFedi @stefano.rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
This post received _a lot_ of comments and reactions, which is great! It also proved that my little Raspberry Pi Zero W, powered by NetBSD, could handle the load. Now - to help me test how much load it can tolerate - **please boost and react to this post!** 🚀 #FediTest #littleFedi #OwnYourData […]
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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
It’s a drizzly weekend ahead, but if you’re vaguely in the vicinity of Whitminster (UK) and want to get outside and support a dogs and cats rehoming centre, Teckels Animal Sanctuary have an fair on Saturday and Sunday 11:00-16:00 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]
A pink and blue poster for Teckels Animal Sancturies’ summer fair this weekend:

ENTRY £4 (Kids go free)
SATURDAY 29th &
SUNDAY 30th AUGUST 2026
11AM - 4PM
FROMEBRIDGE MILL, 
FROMEBRIDGE LANE, 
WHITMINSTER, GL2 7PB
PLENTY OF FREE PARKING AVAILABLE ON-SITE
Variety of stalls, delicious refreshments, games for children, exciting raffles and much more!
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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
My search skills are failing me - is anyone aware of anywhere I might be able to download boundaries for Districts in Wales used between 1974 and 1996? #GISchat #RSpatial #GIS #Wales
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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @hrbrmstr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026
ZOMGOSH #DUICKDB 2.0 IS COMING SOON WITH TRIGGERS AND A REAL SERVER MODE AND EVEN MORE CRUNCHY GOODNESS! duckdb.org/2026/08/17/duckdb-20-hig…
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A Preview of DuckDB v2.0
DuckDB v2.0 is coming this fall. In this post, we preview its headline features: DuckDB as a server, triggers, the VARIANT type, asynchronous I/O, a new SQL parser, a new storage format, and much more.
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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026
If I gambled on both NFTs and the metaverse to the tune of millions and millions of dollars and even renamed my company accordingly I would be so canceled I’d be farming potatoes, but people are still quoting Zuck AI predictions on my daily news feed.
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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
Dogs Trust (UK) are hiring for a “senior insights officer”: careers.dogstrust.org.uk/en/posting…
careers.dogstrust.org.uk
Senior Insight Officer
Job Opening: Senior Insight Officer at Dogs Trust in Dogs Trust site with hybrid working.
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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026
Hey, folks! Do you know of any unisex/open toilets? Add them here! I just went on and added my work building, which is fully open to the public during business hours, and has single-sex toilets on the ground floor, but two single-occupancy unisex rooms on the upper floors. (There's a space to […]
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I’ve just responded to the government’s consultation by saying NO to Heathrow’s climate-wrecking third runway. Have your say here @friends-earth.bsky.social action.friendsoftheearth.uk/target/say-n...
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Stop Heathrow's climate-wrecking third runway
Take action We're in a climate crisis, with out-of-control wildfires in the UK, France and Spain and an ongoing battle to clean up the air in our cities. So why is Andy Burnham's government backing pl...
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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026
In the 2 times I’ve contacted them in the last 6 years, #Novation have the best customer service/technical support I have ever encountered from any organisation, especially considering my only purchase from them has been a 2nd hand synth.
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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026
Checking log files and correcting Quarto paths on a server is not my favourite way to start a Saturday morning. Note to self: don’t set up scheduled tasks at the end of a 12 hour day in future ☕ :neofox_laptop_notice:
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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026
Nice evening for a bike ride (admittedly to pick up some meds for Willow the cat). Could do with some rain. #BikeTooter
A photograph of a yellow, arid field with a stony road in the foreground. You can just about see Lydney in Wales over the river Severn in the distance. There are a few small clouds in the sky.
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Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @underdarkgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026
I never thought of #QGIS as a PDF viewer 😂 ... but, honestly, by now everything beats #Adobe Reader
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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026
Hey #UK friends. Do you get annoyed by fireworks? Do your pets find them distressing? Do you think anyone should be able to buy them? The UK Government is running a consultation and want your views […]
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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026
Spent most of this evening cleaning a bike (not mine) that I don’t think had _ever_ been cleaned judging from the caked-on mud :neocat_facepalm: #biketooter #INeedAShower
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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026
First time using the #TFLGo app in quite a while. I remembering it being pretty good before but finding the updated version pretty unusable, the interface is weird and buggy now and I keep having to close it and start again…
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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026
Pigeon continues to do pigeon equivalent of “chop wood, carry water” in spite of everything. Inspiring stuff.
A slightly blurry photo of a pigeon in flight who has just launched themselves off the roof of a blue car. They have a small twig in their beak. In the background is a dense leafy hedge, where they are building, or possibly repairing/improving their nest.
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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026
:blobfoxconfused: Reading a review, specifically for the purposes of researching power requirements, unsure if reviewer is from the UK and thus can be reasonably assumed to mean what I think they mean re. cable types :revblobfoxdealwithitfingerguns: Seeing them use the word “gubbins”
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Konstantin Weddige @weddige.gruene.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@campuscodi/1167209… "The ruff Python linter caught formatting and lint violations in the malicious code and blocked the CI build -- twice. The attacker gave up." 🤣
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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026
Any bslib or Quarto wizards have any insight into this odd bslib::navset_*() issue I'm experiencing? stackoverflow.com/questions/7995444… #bslib #quarto #RStats
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bslib navset_*() rendering elements twice
In a Quarto dashboard, I'm trying to use bslib::navset_*() to create tabset panels showing a single different leaflet map or plot when each option is selected. Whichever variant of bslib::navset_ca...
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Alexis Bushnell @alexisbushnell.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026
Petition regarding the proposed data centre I posted about the other week. Sign and share if you can, especially if you or someone you know lives in the affected areas! And boost, boost, boost: acornuk.good.do/cymru #Wales #Cardiff
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Join me in supporting the Wales Campaign
ACORN Cymru contains the Cardiff branch of ACORN the union, as well as many other members in other towns and cities across Wales, all fighting campaigns on the issues that matter to them. Join in with an action near you so we can win. We are stronger together.
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Elio Campitelli @eliocamp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026
Hey, #RStats folks, what's your take on the box package to organise the code inside a project? I've been using it a bit for a while: I put functions in an R folder similar to a package and then load them with box::use() instead of source(). klmr.me/box
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‘box’: Write Reusable, Composable and Modular R Code
A modern module system for R. Organise code into hierarchical, composable, reusable modules, and use it effortlessly across projects via a flexible, declarative dependency loading syntax.
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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026
Senior Cybersecurity Engineer role going at Dogs Trust (UK): careers.dogstrust.org.uk/en/posting… #GetFediHired
careers.dogstrust.org.uk
Senior Cyber Security Engineer
Job Opening: Senior Cyber Security Engineer at Dogs Trust in London.
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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026
This is a very ignorant question as my front end knowledge is pretty minimal, but is anyone aware of any free tools for helping plan out CSS grids from an image sent by a designer? I’m currently being sent designs for a Quarto dashboard as PowerPoint slides, and trying to use PowerPoint grids is […]
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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026
Saddened to read of the death of Sonny Rollins. Got into his stuff probably 25 years ago after reading Henry Rollins (yes, another Rollins, unrelated of course) saying how much of a masterpiece “The Bridge” is. Will be giving that one a spin later on for sure. #SonnyRollins
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Fiona Gregory @fionag11.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026
The official source of truth is sentinels.copernicus.eu/web/sentine… but this involves downloading KML files for each satellite for every 2 week period - a daunting prospect if you want to forecast a whole field season. Anyone got an expedited […]
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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026
Just heard the first #Swifts of the year!
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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026
No spare parts available, no problem. #WhyFixItProperlyWhenARubberBandWillDo
A photo of an aged vacuum cleaner head which is held together with a black rubber band. We’ll see how long this lasts…
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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026
Niche #LinuxAudio question: has anyone ever had any success getting the #Boss IR loader software to run on Bottles or Wine? #BossIR200 #BossIR2
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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026
Has anyone ever managed to make a #Quarto dashboard with drop downs within the navbar, e.g. www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_d… ?
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W3Schools.com
W3Schools offers free online tutorials, references and exercises in all the major languages of the web. Covering popular subjects like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Java, and many, many more.
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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2026
#BikeTooter folks, anyone know much about recumbents? My dad (RIP), obtained this Ice Trice (TNT?) many moons ago but never got round to fixing it up sadly. I know nothing about recumbents, but it looks like it needs a LOT of work/replacement parts. Anyone have […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]
A black and grey recumbent tricycle, which has definitely seen better days!
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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2026
Finally spent my birthday book tokens at a new bookshop in Stroud. I must have unintentionally walked in and done a search for “The.*of.*”. #WernerHerzog #UrsulaLeGuin #Stroud #Regex
A photo of 2 books - The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin, and The Future of Truth by Werner Herzog. The Herzog one features and image of a distant penguin, presumably a reference to the mysterious penguin “going it alone” in Herzog’s excellent film “Encounters at the End of the World”. Above them is a bookmark for the shop “Borderless Books”.
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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2026
Migrate UK civil service to open-source software for data sovereignty & security petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76… I want the government to develop a plan to migrate all civil service IT systems from proprietary software to secure open-source alternatives. This should setting clear […]
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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026
"Matthew Swindells was, until recently, a joint chair of four NHS trusts, having previously been deputy CEO of NHS England... He was still the joint chair of those NHS trusts when Global Counsel recruited him as an adviser in 2019, and only stood down last month after the Financial Times […]
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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026
#BikeTooter folks, can anyone recommend any small rear-view mirrors that would attach to drop bars ok? I’m losing a bit of flexibility in my neck thanks to arthritis so it’s probably a good idea for me now annoyingly.
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elle @e11e.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026
added a little sign on my homepage with tips for personal site making ^-^ sometimes i get emails asking for advice on how to approach starting a homepage so i thought i'd write it on my page. i point to some more technical resources in my blog post about […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026
[UK NHS/Palantir] Debate in parliament about activating the break clause for the FDP/ Palantir coming up on April 16th. If you’d like to email your MP to share your thoughts/urge they attend, Foxglove have a template/sending service here […]
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026
The UK has allowed AI slop nonsense to be made into laws... > Writing a law is not something for which there is a technological solution. It is not a perfectible process, it is a moral act that requires belief and responsibility. It is a process of debate. [...] Reading is thinking, and writing […]
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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026
[UK NHS/Palantir] Debate in parliament about activating the break clause for the FDP/ Palantir coming up on April 16th. If you’d like to email your MP to share your thoughts/urge they attend, Foxglove have a template/sending service here […]
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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026
Does anyone know of any good solicitors in/around #Bristol (UK) for dealing with #probate / #conveyancing ? Sadly, I have a need for one and any recommendations would be very welcome.
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Everyday Cyborg @digitalraven.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026
Quote in September last year for a high-memory compute server. £28,000. Quote today for the _exact same machine_. £90,500 This is for medical research. Saving lives. When I say LLMs are killing people by killing research computing, this is what I mean. @davidgerard.co.uk @edzitron.com
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The precedent is eerily, chillingly precise. What the current Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is doing to immigrants and refugees today is almost a carbon copy of what Sir William Joynson-Hicks was doing 100 years ago. And that's not a good thing. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot
Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot
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Mike Lawton @mlawton.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026
Finished reading “Erasure” by Percival Everett. “Monk”, a largely overlooked black academic author, rages at the publishing industry & writes a deliberately offensive ghetto-lit parody. They love it, offering serious money. Satire collides with financial necessity. A savage rebuke of […]
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𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
{sfnetworks} question... I want to blend points to a graph network derived from OSM road data that includes `highway=path` linestrings but don't want the points to be on these paths. I need the points to be on an actual road. Continued... #rstats
Code:
blend_points_to_sfnetwork <- function(source, 
                                      targets, 
                                      roads = roads_buff){
  points <- bind_rows(source, targets)
  roads <- roads |> activate("edges") |> arrange(desc(edge_length()))
  road <- st_network_blend(roads, points, tolerance = Inf) |> 
    activate(nodes)|> 
    mutate(id = 1:n())
}

# with example filtering required:

roads |> activate("edges") |> filter(highway != "path")
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