I’ve made it to the end of another school. Unlike many faculty members, I enjoy the classes I teach and I enjoy working with my students, who are all great people.
I’ve been playing around with the Quill editor recently. Although I’m usually more of a plain text person, I kind of like what this non-markdown editor has to offer. It’s WYSIWYG with a few nice features.
Let’s start by talking about why building projects with Dub is problematic.
One of the things you have to be careful about with R is the automatically assigned names. It’s usually not too bad, but there are plenty of times you’ll find yourself frustrated. Here’s one of them:
D could have major appeal to academic researchers needing to do numerical computing. The alternative languages I have in mind are R, Python, Matlab/Octave, and Julia. D has some self-imposed limitations that make it a harder sell to academic resea...
I’ve been playing around with SafeRefCounted, a relatively recent addition to the D programming language. It has some nice features. I could see it being useful to work with/port C code.
There’s a lot of talk about how useful LLMs are for programming. In spite of my initial tests, which didn’t go very well, they may be right.
I like using ess (Emacs Speaks Statistics) for editing R code. It was the original IDE for R. While there’s nothing wrong with RStudio, and I do use it for teaching, it’s a bit heavy both in terms of resources and design choices for me to use it f...
Many of the blogs I used to read have disappeared. There have been numerous comments posted all over the internet saying that blogging is a waste of time. According to this story, social media makes it much easier to reach a big audience, so it d...
Quick post today on what you need to manage tasks for GTD. I hate the trend toward complicated task management tools. All you need is a few features. You can even do your task management on paper (though electronic tools work better). Low-fri...