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Don't use paste() to handle JSON

A quick note documenting how I went insane working with JSON and what should be the correct way to fix the problem.

On i3(WM)

This is a relatively quick one, again on the topic of tiling window managers.

On Sway(WM)

In order to understand the context of this blog post, I recommend reading the previous blog on StumpWM, AwesomeWM, and xmonad. But a quick summary is that I need a window manager that can only do two things: (1) can use strange emacs-style key com...

readODS 1.8 is released and a hard lesson learned

readODS 1.8 is released actually in January on CRAN 1. It is the first release under the rOpenSci moniker. Last time I wrote about the release of readODS 1.7 was in July, 2020. And man, that’s long time ago. That’s like “a pandemic and a war” ago....

On the replaceability of my job by AI

A genuine DKNY handbag in a discounter TK Maxx store, which I still don't buy

On StumpWM, AwesomeWM, and xmonad

First of all, what I wanted to say is that I am actually a pretty bad software user. I am a software developer myself too. I hate users like me.

On the idea of executable research compendium

Source: Make Open Science Fun & Easy!

Tom's Diner, rang, Bioconductor for nonbioinformaticians, or my preconceptions about dependencies are wrong

Act I: Tom’s Diner

The oldest R version one can still run today

Update: 2023-02-01 2023-02-02

Rust is fast, but how fast (vs R)?

I am currently “learning Rust” 1. Like I have written in a previous post, I originally embarked on a hypothetical adventure of “learning Rust” for the sake of learning Rust. I am reading Rust Programming Language. A good book, but I am bored after...

OKR #8

Previously on this blog: my objectives / adjustment; actual OKR #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7.

Towards descriptive branch names with git

TL;DR: Starting from 2023, I will not use the default branch name “master” or whatever “m”-based alternatives (“main” or whatever).

Projekt 71

The package author (singular) tried very hard to write some C++ to achieve extremely little

Advent of emacs #25: How I write a postscript in emacs

Bob’s your uncle, I’ve finally done it! On Nov 31, I thought, um… writing 25 blog posts about emacs, how hard can it be?

Advent of emacs #24: How I approach emacs

He’s the one, who likes all our pretty songs. And he likes to sing along. And he likes to shoot his gun. But he knows not what it means, knows not what it means

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