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stdlib @stdlib.io · 06/08/2026

We've been taught that being indispensable is a sign of success. In open source, it can also be a liability. The healthiest projects aren't built around heroes. They're built so that others can eventually take the work farther than we could alone. blog.stdlib.io/build-for-in...

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Build for Inheritance

Building for inheritance means ensuring others can carry on the work of open source without you and thrive in your absence.

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Mara Averick @dataandme.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Big ups to @posit.co and whoever’s in charge of quarto-stuff these days (I truly know not 😬). An email warning re. URLs expiring December **2031** gives me much more credit for life plans than I’ve ever earned! 🍻 Cheers for the faith!

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Mara Averick @dataandme.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Not every open-source project wants more contributors right now, and that's fine. Four shapes maintainers run — walled castle, clique, university, hippie commune — and your `CONTRIBUTING.md` is saying the quiet part out loud. No wrong answer, just an honest one. blog.stdlib.io/do-you-want-...

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Do you WANT contributors?

Four ways to run an open-source project—castle, clique, university, commune—and which one you're really running.

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Mara Averick @dataandme.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

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!

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stdlib @stdlib.io · 08/06/2026

For years, open source communities relied on visible friction: people got stuck, asked questions in public, and became part of a community. AI is changing that. What happens when newcomers are no longer visible—and neither side knows the other is there? blog.stdlib.io/ai-and-the-i...

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What We're No Longer Seeing: AI and the Invisible Newcomer in Open Source

How AI is absorbing the visible friction that open-source communities have always relied on to see—and welcome—newcomers.

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 03/07/2023

New blog post! Learn how to use #rstats to load & clean & play with all the location history data Google keeps about you and look at neat plots and tables about our 5,000-mile summer road trip along the way www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2023/07/03…

Map of the US showing our path across 17 states through 13 days of traveling

A timeline showing when we left, stopped, and drove on each day of our trip

A plot showing elevation changes throughout the road trip

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Mike Mahoney @mikemahoney218.com · 28/06/2023

Alright, I'll bite: here's a feed that will collect all rstats posts on bluesky in one convenient spot: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nnvf4hwrvr… No promises about longevity, uptime, reliability, etc! bsky.app/profile/apreshill.com/post…

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Mara Averick @dataandme.bsky.social · 05/05/2023

🥰 Let LittleMissData give you some data❣️ feels… 💌 “My Love Letter to Data” www.littlemissdata.com/blog/data-lo…

Letter that looks kind of like a post card and reads: Dear Data, As you grow and explore new areas, I know you will keep changing the world. Signed Little Miss Data

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Luca Hammer @luca.run · 01/05/2023

fedifinder.glitch.me now finds your Twitter contacts on Bluesky as well. Currently quite basic by checking for bsky.app or bsky.social links. I started with DNS TXT lookups, which worked great until I tested it with thousands of accounts which triggered the DDoS protection.

Screenshot of open browser window with fedifinder:

New: Your contacts on Bluesky

@luca.run (luca)
@aliafonzy.bsky.social (Aliafonzy43)
@staging.bsky.app (Aliafonzy43)
@jay@bsky.app (arcalinea)
@amir.blue (ashevat)
@sjjphd.bsky.social (sjjphd)
@ericajoy.astrel.la (EricaJoy)
@pennyred.bsky.social (PennyRed)
@helmi.bsky.social (helmi)

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Mara Averick @dataandme.bsky.social · 02/05/2023

I haven't used ChatGPT to code much…BUT this 5-min video w/ Matt Dancho is a nice lil' case study/crash course: 🦾 “How to R code faster with ChatGPT” www.business-science.io/code-tools/…

ChatGPT Prompt Guide (for R users). The mistake I was making was not being specific enough in directing chatgpt what R code I want it to write for me. If you look at what I’m doing now… Image shows example ChatGPT prompt: "Using the osmdata R library, write R code to find the locations of all pharmacies in Pittsburgh. Then use mapview to visualize the pharmacies on a map." Arrows point to osmdata and mapview with the annotation "Which R libraries?". Arrows point to the word pharmacies with the annotation "What business Type". Arrows point to the word Pittsburgh with the annotation "Which location?".

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Mara Averick @dataandme.bsky.social · 27/04/2023

I swear this isn't a @tanyashapiro.bsky.social stan account, but if you like dataviz, R, Drag Race…cool things, this convo about her adventures w/ Observable is a great read: Data consultant from the R world uses JavaScript to “bring viz to life” observablehq.com/blog/r-to-javascri…

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Mara Averick @dataandme.bsky.social · 27/04/2023

I know hashtags aren't a thing here (I think), but putting out the #rstats signal just in case so you don't miss this opportunity to learn from one of my faves 👇

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