mastodon 4.7.2Author of Practical R for Mass Communication & Journalism
Still ❤️ R after all these years #RStats
Bluesky @smachlis.bsky.social
Can't imagine life without writing
Having fun with #GenAI
Learning #ASL
(Mostly) retired after a long career as a tech journalist. Eagerly exploring my next chapter.
Passionate about vibrant aging
Other interests: #Photography #DigitialDarkroom #Running #Bicycling #Crochet Pedestrian/bike-friendly cities
#NoBridge
"Quarto 2 will include a built-in collaborative editor. . . . The design of those integrations is still taking shape. It is very early in the project. . . . We don't expect to have a public release of Quarto 2 for at least 6 months."
https://quarto.org/docs/blog/posts/2026-04-06-whats-next-quarto-2/
#QuartoPub
blockr is “a framework for data analysis, using a web-based point and click user interface. Use blockr to create web apps that perform visual programming, leveraging the power of R.”
Includes tools for #RStats developers who want to create more blocks. Already features dplyr, pharma & other blocks.
Backed by Bristol Myers Squibb
https://bristolmyerssquibb.github.io/blockr.core/
From Dr. Albert Rapp (via LinkedIn) "It took me waaay too long to learn about str_view(). 🫨 It's one of the best helper functions to understand regular expressions. It shows you exactly where the matches to your regular expression are with ."
Me: How did I not know about this until now???
In the U.S., only Congress has the power
"To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises . . .
"To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; . . .
"To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;" - United States Constitution
Rule of law? Anyone?
Browse, search, and filter all the Bluesky posts about next week's NICAR 2026 data journalism conference - even if you're not on Bluesky. App collects all the posts with the #NICAR26 or #NICAR2026 hashtags
App: https://apps.machlis.com/shiny/nicar2026/
#RStats code: https://github.com/smach/bskyconf
#RShiny
[Did this for Twitter years ago back when their API was free and their algorithm was, um, different. Now updated. Sorry not also doing it here, but I didn't see anyone else posting about that conf here besides me.]
Should be a festive day on global financial markets tomorrow
Claude Code just fixed a screw-up in my Python uv installation. Maybe generative AI is what I needed all these years to actually run Python code on Windows 🤣
