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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...

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R: Tomáš Kalibera Family Fund

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John Coene @john-coene.com · 06/08/2026

stb_top_secret! The Epstein files had less black highlighter :)

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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...

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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

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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...

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

I asked Claude to fix the tests (expectations) after minor modifications, it ran for minutes then went sth along the lines of "I noticed the code changed, hence the tests no longer passed, I reverted the changes: now it's all good"

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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!

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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 […]

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

Surely an impartial decision with absolutely no outside influence...

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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...

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

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

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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

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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!

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

haha, yes, I remember, thanks again! In my mind you're classified as the `NA` expert: Lukas, the NA-guys, Jung.

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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???

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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

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

Great time to host a world cup.

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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.

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John Coene @john-coene.com · 27/05/2026

But when your order a beer you get a pint and when you order wine a bottle:)

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John Coene @john-coene.com · 21/05/2026

You don't have to register to try it out.

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

Finally, it also uses builder: a preprocessor for #rstats it enables a flurry of things I always wanted R to feature. github.com/devOpifex/bu...

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GitHub - devOpifex/builder: Preprocessor for R

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

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

There's a bit of Javascript which is handled by {packer}: the package makes it easy to bundle Javascript into your #rstats projects. github.com/JohnCoene/pa...

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GitHub - JohnCoene/packer: webpack + npm + R = ❤️

webpack + npm + R = ❤️. Contribute to JohnCoene/packer development by creating an account on GitHub.

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

The front-end is done with styler: github.com/devOpifex/st... Styler is the tailwind.css of the poor: it's extremely lightweight but covers 95% of what you need.

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GitHub - devOpifex/styler: Lightweight CSS Utility

Lightweight CSS Utility. Contribute to devOpifex/styler development by creating an account on GitHub.

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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 👇

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Limericks

A website for sharing limericks

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

"Artificial intelligence is changing how software gets written. It can help developers move faster, autocomplete routine code, explain unfamiliar functions, generate tests, and lower the friction of learning a new API." lol no, they don't use it like that...

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John Coene @john-coene.com · 18/05/2026

What's-->wrong; with->>mermaid?; loop what the--->fuck is: happening here? end

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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

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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?...

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Builder - a preprocessor for R

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

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

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John Coene @john-coene.com · 29/04/2026

What's this?! I thought I could just come on this social network and make strong claims without any proof or receipt like we do elsewhere! Can't people on here just comment "Agree" like people over on LinkedIn? (I will try to write an example that demonstrates what I mean)

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

God may have a compiler but here I meant Go's compiler*

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

It makes the code vastly more robust. I can, at long last, easily refactor even the most central pieces of logic safe in the knowledge that R CMD check will catch errors (like God's compiler). Fixes one of the greatest shortcomings of dynamic languages vapour.run/blog/vapour-...

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Vapour Alpha Release | Vapour

Initial release of Vapour!

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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!

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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

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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.

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

I can't with these encoding issues man

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

"may be eaten at lunch or as a dessert," you absolute monsters.

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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...

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