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Posit @posit.co · 01/10/2026
Python Polars: The Definitive Cheatsheet condenses a nearly 500-page book into 2 free pages of @pola.rs fundamentals and expressions. It’s built as a quick desk reference for anyone working with DataFrames in #Python. Check it out here: opensource.posit.co/resources/ch...
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Python Polars: The Definitive Cheatsheet
Quick reference guide for transforming, analyzing, and visualizing data with Python Polars.
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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 16/09/2026
"Thou shalt get only as creative with names as thine own skill with regular expressions." I'm really bad at naming files and really good at regular expressions, so everything is fine right @jennybryan.bsky.social ? 😆
Thou shalt get only as creative with names as thine own skill with regular expressions.
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Ian Lyttle @ijlyttle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
today in canadian news www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Lost island in northern B.C. lake located, says B.C. Hydro | CBC News
B.C. Hydro says mini forest bigger than a Canadian football field landed ashore in the Williston Reservoir after drifting some 30 kilometres northwest of its last known location.
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Brandon Rohrer @brandonrohrer.com · 26/07/2026
Heads up ruff users - with the release of 0.16.0 this week the number of default rules went up from 59 to to 413. This means that if you're ruff version auto updates, your CI pipelines might start failing on you all of a sudden.
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George Stagg @gws.phd · 20/04/2026
I've been working on this over the last few months and in my opinion it is just beyond cool. Grammar of graphics for SQL users!
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Ian Lyttle @ijlyttle.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Joe Clark won his majority, it just took 47 years for the votes to be counted (with apologies to George Will) www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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ANALYSIS | Mark Carney enters his majority era | CBC News
There have been a total of 24 prime ministers in Canada's history, but before Monday night only 13 could claim to have led their party to a majority of seats in the House of Commons. Mark Carney is no...
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭
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Kevin Ushey @kevinushey.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Heartbreaking news. 😞
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Ian Lyttle @ijlyttle.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Today in Canadian headlines www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Brazen overnight break-in targets beloved sausage store in town east of Edmonton | CBC News
A man who helps run a store that’s a beloved staple of a town some people call Alberta’s “sausage capital” is speaking out after a brazen overnight break-in left thousands of dollars in damage to the storefront earlier this week.
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Ian Lyttle @ijlyttle.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Today in Canadian headlines: an update www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Fake maple syrup plot thickens: Cans found with label hiding name of implicated company | CBC News
Since Radio-Canada first broke the story last week of fake maple syrup found on grocery store shelves, consumers have since found cans of syrup in stores from the same producer with a sticker hiding the company’s name.
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Ian Lyttle @ijlyttle.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
*this* is what we are capable of
Earthset from the Moon
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Ian Lyttle @ijlyttle.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
today in canadian headlines www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Yukon man grows pineapple at home — and it only took 9 years | CBC News
When Alex Oberg finally cut into the fruit for a taste, it was a bit sour. 'We maybe could have waited a little bit longer,' he said.
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 05/04/2026
Bill’s early work had an incredible influence on my career, especially his studies on perception and coplots. It’s so sad to hear that he passed away. May his memory be a blessing.
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Ian Lyttle @ijlyttle.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Today in Canadian headlines *top story on CBC now* www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Bogus maple syrup from Quebec producer found on grocery store shelves | CBC News
Radio-Canada’s Enquête program has uncovered fake maple syrup being sold on store shelves in Quebec. The lab responsible for testing maple syrup in Quebec says it’s a first. The producer in question i...
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Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Six months from today, YOU could be joining us at posit::conf! A topic I plan to explore is how we best borrow ideas from across different fields (from DS to DE, team-of-one to enterprise, etc.) Ironically, that's also one of the magical things about the conf 1/2
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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
So very exciting and well deserved!
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bryson @brysonm.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
holy shit
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Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Sidebar but this podcast had some really elegant workflows for `git stash` in testing scenarios that had never occurred to me podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...
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236: Git Tips for Testing - Adam Johnson
Podcast Episode · Test & Code · July 30, 2025 · 20m
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Rebecca Brinbury @brinbury.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
This woman is cool as shit already, and then you find out she could staff an entire jazz quintet herself (plays piano, guitar, bass guitar, drums, and trumpet). Excuse me??
Audi Crooks wears a cool all-black outfit sitting in a folding chair in front of a rack of basketballs. She's peeking over the top of some fantastic Paul Shaffer–ass sunglasses and has a big, open-mouthed grin on her face.
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Ian Lyttle @ijlyttle.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
15 minutes in and i am *entranced*
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Ian Lyttle @ijlyttle.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
For no particular reason, I've been reading about the Hanseatic League. TIL that Lufthansa is literally "Air Hansa" 🤯 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseat...
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Hanseatic League - Wikipedia
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Ian Lyttle @ijlyttle.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
nobody tell David Tennant
Picture of the Deadwood bar in Iowa City, where the marquee has the "W" missing so that it spells "DEAD OOD". Perhaps fittingly, above the marquee, a group of stuffies is posed in a window, appearing to stare forlornly at the pavement below.
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Jumping Rivers @jumpingrivers.com · 09/02/2026
Stop fighting with Git. A few .gitconfig tweaks fix the daily annoyances: branch sorting by date, auto remote tracking, work/personal email switching, SSH commit signing. Check out this blog post by Colin Gillespie: www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/recomme... #Git #DevTools
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Building a Robust .gitconfig
Explore how to optimise your Git workflow with a well-crafted .gitconfig file. From commit signing and branch management to conditional includes for work-personal separation, learn the settings that transform Git into a seamless development tool.
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Ian Lyttle @ijlyttle.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
this song keeps hitting differently lately www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gPS...
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David Bowie - Five Years (Live) [Official Video] [HD]
YouTube video by David Bowie
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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
This is the most elite change in #Positron, it's so calming. #rstats #python #databs
Side by side views of the Positron. The left side has the activity bar on the left in the default position. The right side has the activity bar in the top position.Screenshot of the Positron IDE showing that the Activity Bar moved from the default position on the left side to the top where it's much smaller. A right-click menu is open next to the “Explorer” label, with the option Activity Bar Position → Top selected. Annotations highlight where to right-click, next to the word Explorer, then choose Activity Bar Position, and then choose Top.
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Magnificent. Make sure you click on the "1 more reply" link to make sure you read the whole thread. You will not regret it.
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Brian Coulter @philabcoulter.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.
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Ian Lyttle @ijlyttle.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
🎶 get your mind off wintertime you aint goin nowhere 🎵
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Ben Fletcher-Watson @bfletcherwatson.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view.
And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone.

"When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
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Ian Lyttle @ijlyttle.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Today in Canadian headlines: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Can you see Newfoundland from Cape Breton? Online photo sparks debate | CBC News
An online photo has sparked a passionate debate about whether or not it's possible.
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Ian Lyttle @ijlyttle.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Today in "most Canadian headlines":
Screenshot of CBC website with headline, "At 83, Paul McCartney takes Hamilton crowd through longest list of greatest hits any artist ever had"
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Jenny Bryan @jennybryan.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I'm reminded of how handy the usethis::browse_*() functions are and thought I'd remind people they exist. Choose from a menu of links or go straight to CRAN or GitHub. #rstats
Screenshot showing usage of usethis::browse_package(), usethis::browse_cran(), and usethis::browse_github().
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
this dude helping his bro pick up his stick should be highlight of the night but our bloodthirsty sports media only feeds us conflict
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Ian Lyttle @ijlyttle.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
this is the wildest thing I have heard in a while www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMz4...
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Tomorrow Never Knows
YouTube video by Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Bluegrass Band - Topic
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Ian Lyttle @ijlyttle.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
asking for a favorite track is a trap... for me, this is less of an album, and more of an old friend: there when needed
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We Are RLadies+ @weare.rladies.org · 25/09/2025
Want to manage multiple R versions without pain? 🧰 The rig (R Installation Manager) tool makes installing, removing, and switching between #RStats versions simple; works across macOS, Windows, and Linux. 🔧 github.com/r-lib/rig
you should be using rig
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
While I had been using rainbow parentheses for a while, I only recently found out about rainbow indentation thanks to @ijlyttle.bsky.social and @3mmarand.bsky.social 🌈 #rstats
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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily slidecrafting-book.com #quarto
Screenshot of first page of slidecrafting-book.com website
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
RDM Weekly Issue 14 is out! 📬 After attending posit::conf last week, I decided to highlight some recent and past data management related talks from the conference. #rstats - AI Coding Assistants - Spreadsheet formatting - Creating R Data Packages and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
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RDM Weekly - Issue 014
A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.
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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 02/09/2025
🕐 🤔 Timestamps and time zones can be confusing! 😵 💡 To help you make sense of time zones in SQL, Richard Wesley wrote a short guide that covers some typical pitfalls: duckdb.org/docs/stable/...
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Timestamp Issues
Timestamp With Time Zone Promotion Casts Working with time zones in SQL can be quite confusing at times. For example, when filtering to a date range, one might try the following query: SET timezone = ...
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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Does Jenny Bryan #VibeCode? 🤔 She shared on the Hangout that she's been thankful that she gets to learn #rust and #typscript in the age of #AI and these are her thoughts on #LLM use. (We really need a #RubberDuck emoji 🦆) #rstats #databs #VibeCoding #DSHangout #python
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Ian Lyttle @ijlyttle.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Really looking forward teaching again with @3mmarand.bsky.social: all sorts of good stuff, including: 🐝 getting started with functions ⚡️ writing functions with tidy evaluation 🏃‍♀️iterating over columns of data frames 🐈 intro to functional programming with purrr Hope you can join us!
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David Daniel @daviddaniel.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.
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WKRP: Johnny Fever
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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
this is my TS album drop 🤩
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Ian Lyttle @ijlyttle.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
I have drifted from Observable lately, and I could use a distraction today. I've got my morning coffee, let's do this!
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 03/06/2025
At Posit, we love @typst.app: ⚡ Make PDFs in milliseconds, not minutes ✨ The power of LaTeX with today's technologies ✍️ Modern typography (including emojis!) 🧠 Clear mental model So I'm thrilled to announce that we're now supporting its development: posit.co/blog/posit-a... #rstats
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Posit
We’re happy to announce that we’re supporting Typst by funding one of their full-time engineers.
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Ian Lyttle @ijlyttle.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
same energy
Leon Draisaitl taking the Clarence Campbell Bowl back to the Oilers' locker room.Mad Men finalé: Peggy Olsen taking her box of stuff to her new office
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Ian Lyttle @ijlyttle.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Connor McDavid in the elimination game against Dallas, 2024: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-ea...
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Gotta See It: Connor McDavid Shows Off Sweet Moves to Bury Goal
YouTube video by SPORTSNET
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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
This is a fun piece on denominators to share with your friends, written with my @wakeforest.bsky.social colleague Jeff Camm!
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