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Radovan Bast @radovan.xyz · 13/09/2025

A bug in my code produced a psychedelic map. This was supposed to look very different but I liked the result. #dataviz

Screenshot from a buggy data visualization code which produced a psychedelic looking map.

Radovan Bast @radovan.xyz · 24/07/2025

Looking back at years of doing web development with a tiny browser console log window and complaining about it until I learned that I can configure it to use a separate window.

Screenshot from movie "Being John Malkovich" where employees work in offices with very low ceiling.

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Radovan Bast @radovan.xyz · 22/03/2025

Having fun typing a blog post about how to call #rustlang from #Fortran. It's all about choosing the right tools.

Image of the draft table of contents which looks like written with a typewriter.

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Radovan Bast @radovan.xyz · 10/03/2025

TIL about this very cool #map of bedrock by the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU): geo.ngu.no/kart/berggru...

Screenshot of the National bedrock database map.

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Radovan Bast @radovan.xyz · 07/03/2025

Time to archive data. #FiveThirtyEight

$#!/usr/bin/env bash for repo in ap-election-loader \ data \ pym.js \ multi-slider \ uber-tlc-foil-response \ d3-pre-renderer \ d3-pre-cli \ d3-pre \ gulp-d3-pre \ oscar-ads \ react-color \ victory \ victory-chart \ guns-data \ nfl-elo-game \ redistricting-atlas-data \ russian-troll-tweets \ actblue-analysis \ checking-our-work-data \ twitter-overlap \ candidate-emails \ nba-player-advanced-metrics \ covid-19-polls \ WNBA-stats \ superbowl-ads \ police-settlements \ negro-leagues-player-ratings \ election-results \ github-actions \ ai2html; do git clone --mirror https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/${repo}.git done$

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Radovan Bast @radovan.xyz · 12/01/2025

Thanks so much to the developers of jupyterlab-code-formatter.readthedocs.io This is how the button looks:

screenshot of how the button looks in a Jupyter Notebook

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Radovan Bast @radovan.xyz · 12/01/2025

Auto - formatting code in JupyterNotebooks can be done with a single click! 🖱️✨ Auto-formatting code in #Jupyter Notebooks can be done with a single click! With this wonderful extension:

environment.yml containing the dependencies: black, isort, and jupyterlab-code-formatter

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Radovan Bast @radovan.xyz · 19/12/2024

Today I had fun finding out that #ImageMagick can be used to count objects in an image (my example was to process generated "telescope" images of stars which I use in teaching parallel computing):

Generated image representing a telescope image of stars.

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