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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 28/09/2026

It continues to be disheartening to be the first human to read the code in a PR when I'm supposed to be *reviewing* it. 🙃 That PR has *your* name on it, not Claude's! Have at least a LITTLE pride in your work!

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Gabby Palomo, PhD @gabspalomo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hope you all enjoy this week's #TidyTuesday dataset. It's a good one! Lots of Qs to explore regarding hospitals and pharmacies proximity to urban centres. Also, now that I think I am getting the hang of it on how to submit a database, I will continue to explore other potential databases. It's fun!

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 28/09/2026

I have 5 728-day-old hydroponic tomato plants which I use more for meditation than cultivation. 1 of them (closest in the photo) is barely holding on. I'm trimming the one next to it fairly hard to get the poor little guy some light, but it only has a few small leaves left to try to absorb it 😢

An Aerogarden hydroponic system with 5 tomato plants. The plant closest to the viewer is mostly bare of leaves.

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Anna Fergusson @annafergusson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is the week in my intro data science course where students learn that runif() is said r-unif not run-if, & they are like "duh" but no one had ever said it out loud before so they didn't know. Def read/watch more about this from @amelia.mn & of course @felienne.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, links⬇️

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 23/09/2026

Doh! I just noticed that the #TidyTuesday poster actions were disabled! Some people definitely found the datasets, but I'm getting the posts out now...

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 22/09/2026

This doesn't feel like a thing you do if you expect to have to face voters in free and fair elections: wapo.st/4hmb3QY They've won plenty of elections, so I don't think we can just assume they're out of touch.

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Trump officials plan to cut hundreds of thousands from ACA, claiming fraud

Vance targeted ACA enrollment as part of a broader administration crackdown on suspected fraud.

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 22/09/2026

I've had some helpful/hopeful replies in this thread (eg bsky.app/profile/hadl...). I also finally read this blog by @hadley.nz substack.com/home/post/p-... , and I wish he'd done part 1 of that talk one more time at #PositConf2026! It would've helped to offset some of the other AI. #RStats #dataBS

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y code when ai?

A talk on AI and coding

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 21/09/2026

remember when Biden replied to some right-wing bait question about how many genders there are with, "at least three. don't play games with me, kid." and then got elected president? that was their last winning strategy. dems: "you're a dipshit. fuck off" was your last winning strategy.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026

"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 21/09/2026

I've been feeling pretty down. When I found #RStats, I kinda fell in love, and decided to become as much of an expeRt as I could be. In the age of AI, that's not a good idea; why make the bots program in a language they don't really understand? #dataBS

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 17/09/2026

My #PositConf2026 was an accidental sequel to this 2019 @hadley.nz talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qne8... He used the Design of Everyday Things metaphor, introduced {vctrs}, and admitted it might be too strict. That's why I made {stbl}. I hadn't seen this talk when I submitted my abstract! #RStats

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[DSC 4.0] What Makes a Good Function - Hadley Wickham keynote

YouTube video by Data Science Conference

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 17/09/2026

I'll be stalking {stbl} a bit on CRAN and github, but please let me know if you use {stbl}, and if you find anything that could work more smoothly. And I guess it'd probably also be great to hear if you use it painlessly! #RStats #PositConf2026

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 16/09/2026

Ahhh, no more looping through The Design of Everyday Things at 2x to prep for my talk! It's a good book, but it definitely getting to be a bit annoying 🙃 #PositConf2026

The audio book "the design of everyday things" in the audible player, set at 2x playback speed. Currently 39 minutes into the book, with 5 hours remaining at 2x.

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 16/09/2026

Dammit my stbl hex stickers that I meant to mention in my talk and make available in the room are still in my pocket. Grab me after the closing if you want one! They look like this #PositConf2026 #RShiny

A stack of hex stickers for the stbl R package. They look like the name of the package carved into stone.

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 16/09/2026

I made it through my #PositConf2026 talk! The Design of Everyday #RStats Functions. Slides here: stbl.wrangle.zone/slides/every... The underlying 📦 {stbl} is on CRAN!

stbl.wrangle.zone

The Design of Everyday R Functions

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This week's #TidyTuesday data is from the Dead Sea Scrolls digital library 📖 I created an interactive Voronoi diagram showing the number of images of manuscripts found in different locations 📊 #DataViz #ggplot2 #RStats

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026

True story.

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 16/09/2026

@hadley.nz do you have an order-of-magnitude estimate of when the data-dict spec will reach 1.0? I'm considering switching to it for #TidyTuesday dictionaries but that will take lots of touches, so I want to make sure it's at least stable-ish first.

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 15/09/2026

Had to leave... Which is good, cuz it looks like rain's coming for the next couple hours. Glad to be watching talks from my hotel during that time, then I can walk back for the party. #PositConf2026

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Jared Knowles @jaredknowles.com · 15/09/2026

Hey #positconf2026 here's a data source you might find useful to connect with or for your next training! If you want to learn more about the way public money has been used in your community over time - check it out!

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 15/09/2026

Staying in Ballroom A-F as long as I can for these talks but jeebus it's freezing in here when the room isn't full. Gonna have to remember to bring a jacket tomorrow #PositConf2026

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Barret Schloerke @schloerke.com · 15/09/2026

🎤 Just presented “shinyreact: Building Custom Shiny UI with React” at posit::conf(2026) 🤔 Ever written JS or CSS inside an R string? shinyreact moves your UI to React: two hooks on the client, reactive_output() on the server. 📚 bit.ly/posit-2026-shinyreact #rstats #shiny #reactjs

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 15/09/2026

Well dammit. I didn't take a {commons} sticker yesterday cuz I didn't know what it was and I try to stick to things I use or plan to use... But, now that @simonpcouch.com introduced it, I can't find a sticker 😭 #PositConf2026

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CRAN Updates @cranupdates.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Updates on CRAN: adas.utils (1.4.1), calibrator (1.2-9), CopulaGAMM (0.7.4), dexisensitivity (1.0.4), glmtlp (2.0.3), heplots (1.8.5), historicalborrowlong (0.1.1), rasch (1.12.1), rayimage (0.27.1), stbl (0.5.0), td (0.0.7)

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 14/09/2026

When I use agentic coding on my side projects, it's fun & effective. It feels like I'm still doing work I enjoy and producing quality code, just faster. When I use agentic coding for my actual job, it often drains me. It feels like my job has fundamentally changed for the worse. I'm not sure why.

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 14/09/2026

I'm in Houston for #PositConf2026 but not attending any workshops, and am trying to remember that practicing my talk counts as doing something (even if I take breaks between runs-through). Stop trying to give yourself extra homework, Jon!

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 13/09/2026

#PositConf2026 (via the #RPharmaSummit2026 pre-game) has already been worthwhile for introducing me to Kimi K3 in Posit AI Pass! So far it's good, fast, and relatively cheap. This is what I get for skipping any of @simonpcouch.com 's blog posts! opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-08...

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Kimi K3 and GLM 5.2 are now in Posit AI

A new batch of open weights models in Posit AI show impressive capabilities at a fraction of the price.

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Tan @tanho.ca · 13/09/2026

Pro tip for #positconf: lanyards naturally hang your nametag rather far from your face, which can lead to an awkward downwards scan for someone who is looking at your face to read your name. You can either a) shorten the lanyard by tying a knot in it or b) bringing a different nametag holder!

Picture of me illustrating where name tags tend to sit when hung from a lanyard, which is basically around my belly button, as compared to the normal spot of being in the upper chest area

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 13/09/2026

#RStats 📦 {stbl} 0.5.0 is now on CRAN! This release has huge collection of mostly #JSONSchema -related functions (stabilize_any_of(), stabilize_all_of(), stabilize_one_of()), plus a bunch of quality-of-life improvements to make things cleaner in my #PositConf2026 talk. stbl.wrangle.zone

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Stabilize Objects

A set of consistent, opinionated functions to quickly check objects, coerce them to the desired configuration, or deliver informative error messages when that is not possible.

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 13/09/2026

I just cleaned up the news for #RStats 📦 {stbl} 0.5.0 (coming soon to CRAN), and wow, I've done quite a bit more in the last 6 weeks than I realized! Talk-driven development really pushed me along, even though my #PositConf2026 talk focuses on stuff that was already done in July!

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I sincerely hope that the people who have begun following me recently via Data Viz starter packs are following Nicola, as someone putting out current originally written thoughts into the world.

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 11/09/2026

My old leaky dog is off to the boarder this week so my spouse can go to the office while I'm @ #PositConf2026, and Dante is very upset that he didn't get to go to "camp". He's whining and watching the door for the boarder to come back for him. I love that they enjoy running around at her place!

A great dane watching something off screen with his ears "at attention" as he listens for someone to come to the door for him.

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Posit @posit.co · 11/09/2026

Virtual workshop registration for posit::conf(2026) closes tonight at midnight. A three-hour hands-on intro to Positron, Posit's new AI-ready code editor for R and Python. Three time slots, no installation required. $99 add-on to the virtual pass. posit.co/conference

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 08/09/2026

Date yourself with a snap of your first ever computer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_P...

A tv with strange characters and an Atari 2600 with the Basic Programming cartridge and weird controller.

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 04/09/2026

Someone mentioned they're new to #TidyTuesday, so I wanted to help them load a random dataset, but that revealed a bug in tt_available() in {tidytuesdayR}, so I had to fix that, so I have to do a CRAN release, so I have to wrap up my work in a dependency... #RStats #DataBS

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Sherman @sure-man-obie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I just discovered #tidytuesday and had an awesome time making this map of German castles + their relative elevation. Fair warning. I am still super new to Rstudio (and coding generally). That being said, I can't wait for next Tuesday!

A map of Germany featuring castles, fortresses, palaces, and ruins. Each point is colored to represent elevation.

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 04/09/2026

And you should do that cleanup BEFORE you ask someone to review the slop you had Claude write for you, please!

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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The R Consortium is now accepting submissions for the second 2026 technical grant cycle. We fund projects that strengthen R’s technical and social infrastructure! Applications close Oct 1, 2026 Submit your proposal: r-consortium.org/posts/r-cons... #rstats #opensource #grants

graphic with text that says "Technical Grants"

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Posit @posit.co · 31/08/2026

Can't get to Houston? The posit::conf(2026) virtual pass streams every keynote and session Sept 15 - 16, plus talk tracks on the 14th. New this year: live captioning in FR, DE, IT, PT, ES. From $99, free needs-based tickets available. conf.posit.co

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