iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by John Coene

The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We invite #RStats users to contribute to a fund dedicated to helping the family of Tomáš Kalibera following his untimely death in April. Find out more and donate here: www.r-project.org/foundation/k...

r-project.org

R: Tomáš Kalibera Family Fund

04434

John Coene @john-coene.com · 26/07/2026

I love seeing #rstats in the wild, here a ggplot in a Wikipedia article on the Denarius. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denariu...

0181

Reposted by John Coene

Jumping Rivers @jumpingrivers.com · 13/07/2026

We're hiring an Engineer! Newcastle Upon Tyne, or full remote. You'll deploy and look after data science software (Posit) across AWS, Azure and GCP. Ideally 2+ years in DevOps or infrastructure. Apply: jumping-rivers.welcomekit.co/jobs/enginee... #Hiring #DevOps

152

John Coene @john-coene.com · 12/07/2026

Stop comparing LLMs to junior developers. It's a marketing ploy meant to humanise the LLM and dehumanise developers. No developer, junior or otherwise, would have acted that way...

010

Reposted by John Coene

coolbutuseless @coolbutuseless.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Introducing {rdoom} - Play Doom in #RStats (in time for #UseR2026 !) github.com/coolbutusele... This is a demonstration that {tigerfb} + {nara} can do realtime interactivity in R! Includes: keyboard & mouse control, audio, cheat modes!

410132

Reposted by John Coene

Jonathan Carroll @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

A long shot, but the local opportunities seem a bit thin at the moment. I'm available for hire if you're looking for #rstats package development, maintenance, translation, etc... Need some help implementing a solution? Want to productionise a script into a robust package? Wish a third-party […]

fosstodon.org

Original post on fosstodon.org

049

John Coene @john-coene.com · 05/07/2026

Why yes Amazon, I want to follow Marcus Aurelius; I wouldn't want to miss the release of his next book...

030

John Coene @john-coene.com · 23/06/2026

Meet {tooey}, a minimal TUI framework for #rstats github.com/devOpifex/to...

1203

Reposted by John Coene

R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

After years of creating #quarto revealjs slides (and having tons of fun doing it), I created my first template: The Quarto Terminal theme! Preview: rpodcast.github.io/quarto-revea... GitHub: github.com/rpodcast/qua... I'll be using this theme in my new live streams coming soon ... 😉

Screenshot of a slide from the Quarto RevealJS Terminal theme using the cyan-navy palette

33711

John Coene @john-coene.com · 17/06/2026

They believe LLMs are superhuman tools that generate correct and performant code that require no supervision or review so they decide to use those "superhuman" tools to generate... Python and JavaScript!

152

John Coene @john-coene.com · 09/06/2026

Fine #rstats built-ins NAs are great but I genuinely don't think they make any sense for booleans: it's in the name ffs, it's a boolean, it can be one of 2 values. And this doesn't make sense either. as.logical("1") $> NA as.logical("true") $> TRUE I've got TRUE, FALSE, and MAYBE???

100

Reposted by John Coene

Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Please enjoy this graph from a FT article explaining that AI hasn’t added any value (no, debt and circular investment isn’t value) It has produced More Stuff, it’s just the Stuff isn’t useable or fixable. Welcome to the age of everyone making apps no one uses

321823525

John Coene @john-coene.com · 02/06/2026

Great time to host a world cup.

120

Reposted by John Coene

Peter Dalgaard @pdalgd.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I actually forget how environments factor in but in the S origins (w/o lexical scope), functions were isomorphic to lists. The first n-1 elements was a named list corresponding to argument names and defaults, and the last element was the body expression. So ls[2] would be like function(pos=-1) NULL.

162

John Coene @john-coene.com · 20/05/2026

Built this a while ago but forgot to share: limericks.site 🚫 limericks are obscene It was about building something fun using as many of the internal tools I've developed over the years 👇

limericks.site

Limericks

A website for sharing limericks

283

Reposted by John Coene

Andras Bacsai @heyandras.dev · 13/05/2026

We made a fake repo with fake bounties, and the bots are applying fake PRs, so we know who is fake, and we can ban them from the Coolify repo. IQ over 1000

462379439

John Coene @john-coene.com · 12/05/2026

Watch me ramble about #rstats in an attempt to introduce my "builder" preprocessor. Word count: - "heh" - 56 - "ah" - 47 - "hmmm" - 34 - "..." - 23 - *inaudible - 17 youtu.be/VBj6Q8Ad6aU?...

youtu.be

Builder - a preprocessor for R

YouTube video by John Coene

0104

John Coene @john-coene.com · 02/05/2026

"Methods [...] are picked up automatically"🎉

030

John Coene @john-coene.com · 28/04/2026

Oh boy do I love S7! Treat new_class() as struct, props now have their types, and everything is a method 💯🎉🔥 I use it to write #rstats code like I write Go code; it's verbose, nothing like idiomatic R, it'll make your hair curl but I love it!

150

Reposted by John Coene

Charlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · 23/04/2026

Just released mori 0.1.0 on CRAN — a new R package for shared memory across processes. Parallel R no longer has to mean duplicating your dataset in every worker's RAM. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04... 🧵 1/3

opensource.posit.co

mori: Shared memory for R objects

mori is a new R package for sharing R objects across processes via OS-level shared memory. Parallel workers get zero-copy, lazy ALTREP access to the same physical pages — share once, read anywhere.

917662

John Coene @john-coene.com · 14/03/2026

I can't with these encoding issues man

0278

John Coene @john-coene.com · 01/03/2026

I love you Poland, your people, your culture, I'm sorry you had to suffer so much during WWII and under the Soviet Union and I'm extremely happy you get to host #rstats UseR 2026 But come on...

260

Reposted by John Coene

Carl Boettiger @cboettig.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

folks, please don't submit LLM-generated PRs to open source projects. It makes no sense. If the maintainers want to use an LLM to fix an issue, they can use Claude or whatnot directly. They don't need you as intermediary, that's just silly. If they don't want to use LLMs, they have reasons.

07113

Reposted by John Coene

Mwavu Kennedy @mwavu.com · 28/02/2026

{hypertext} is a DSL for building HTML in R. it's similar to {htmltools}, but with 2 deliberate differences: - it is *framework-agnostic* - it has *zero dependencies* we now have more web frameworks in R than ever before. {hypertext} works with all of them, and independently of them. #rstats

library(hypertext)

page <- tags$html(
tags$head(
tags$title("hypertext")
),
tags$body(
tags$h1("Hello"),
tags$p(
class = c("lead", "mb-2"),
"Server-side HTML."
),
tags$input(
type = "text",
placeholder = "enter your nickname"
),
tags$button(
"Click"
)
)
)

render(page)

0192

Reposted by John Coene

Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 27/02/2026

THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUE WAY TO CODE AND IT IS TIDY. All others will perish on the altar of messiness. MUAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

1235

John Coene @john-coene.com · 26/02/2026

This is pretty neat actually; using builder (builder.opifex.org) to translate #rstats {dplyr} code to {data.table} code **at build time** so you get zero overhead. ⚠️ it's an llm-generated POC plugin github.com/devOpifex/fa...

github.com

GitHub - devOpifex/fassplyr: dplyr to data.table

dplyr to data.table. Contribute to devOpifex/fassplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.

710211

John Coene @john-coene.com · 24/02/2026

This #rstats project coming together really nicely. We've now got build profiles, assertions, dev dependencies, bug fixes, performance improvements, and more. github.com/devOpifex/bu...

github.com

GitHub - devOpifex/builder: Preprocessor for R

Preprocessor for R. Contribute to devOpifex/builder development by creating an account on GitHub.

053

Reposted by John Coene

Peter Gray @pgdataviz.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Me? I'm just happy to be here #rstats

Everyone fighing over TIbble versus DF

>| vs %>%

Me: googling what mean means

312823

John Coene @john-coene.com · 13/02/2026

If you want some impostor syndrome you can go watch Sean Barrett live code for 8 hours without syntax highlighter (code is black, comments are green), without LSP, no autocomplete or anything mildly convenient. www.twitch.tv/nothings2

twitch.tv

nothings2 - Twitch

Voxel Friday devstream

020

John Coene @john-coene.com · 11/02/2026

Happy to release builder: a preprocessor for #rstats. You get a build step with macros, conditionals, directives, preflight, etc. along with new language features like fstrings, a deconstructor, and more. github.com/devOpifex/bu...

github.com

GitHub - devOpifex/builder: Preprocessor for R

Preprocessor for R. Contribute to devOpifex/builder development by creating an account on GitHub.

2103

Reposted by John Coene

Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 08/02/2026

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

bluesky-map.theo.io

Bluesky Map

Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

66572502154

Reposted by John Coene

Charlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · 04/02/2026

New post: the design behind secretbase, a 40KB streaming hash package I maintain. The entire source package is smaller than most hex sticker PNGs. Hash large objects with constant memory. Powers targets pipelines. Plus CBOR encoding comes to R. shikokuchuo.net/posts/28-int... #RStats #OpenSource

shikokuchuo.net

shikokuchuo{net}: secretbase: The 40KB Hash Package

Streaming cryptographic hashes for R

0113

John Coene @john-coene.com · 29/01/2026

Men only want one thing and it's...

030

John Coene @john-coene.com · 27/01/2026

The most engaging and interesting video on software engineering I've seen in years, I highly recommend it. Casey really deserves his reputation, he never disappoints, the other lectures are all interesting too. youtu.be/5IUj1EZwpJY?...

youtu.be

The Only Unbreakable Law

YouTube video by Molly Rocket

000

John Coene @john-coene.com · 25/01/2026

I genuinely had no idea #rstats technically has a module system. my_module <- new.env() source("helpers.R", local = my_module) my_module$add(1, 2)

512211

John Coene @john-coene.com · 18/01/2026

When I was an intern in China I once got asked to test a Java application written by a senior, knowing hardly anything at all I assumed the manager meant the UI. So I visited the app, created an account, logged in, clicked around, everything seemed to work fine, went to logout.

120

John Coene @john-coene.com · 18/01/2026

Tsoding's videos and streams are really worth watching: they're full of humour, cynicism, but they're also sharp and interesting: you're always bound to learn something. This is certainly one of them!

010

John Coene @john-coene.com · 25/12/2025

Works for months then stops for some fucking reason...

040