Development

In this section we are looking at PowerShell fundamentals so you can better understand and leverage some of the best hidden PowerShell features.

The most complete WMI Reference for PowerShell

You most likely don’t need this thread to find new plugins (you should first check the community plugins page in the settings), but just in case I’ll keep updating this from time to time. If the plugins available in the community plugins page don’t fit what you need, feel free to search for existing proposals in #plugins. This a meta post to collect and share plugins that are using the new API! The old Plugin directory will be kept as an archive for the Volcano (RIP) and console hacks. Feel...

This page tracks all the Shortcuts I have created for my blog and YouTube channel. I will try my best to keep it updated but remember you are using them at your own risk. Have a play with these and…

I share my thoughts about blogging. I talk about how it can help you become a better developer, expand your horizons, lift your career and learn.

Interact with basecamp api in R. Contribute to yonicd/basecamper development by creating an account on GitHub.

Staying organized as a programmer can be tough! Here are the best note-taking apps designed with coders and developers in mind.

Here's the workflow and tech stack I use for personal knowledge management (PKM). It's a bit of Tiago Forte's PARA with a bit of Luhmann's zettelkasten (via Sönke Ahrens).

Markdown editors are a simple way to organize your writing in a clean and efficient way and save yourself from a desktop full of Word documents.

Suppose you are starting a new data science project (which could either be a short analysis of one dataset, or a complex multi-year…

This is my ‘review’ of Obsidian. It’s fragmented as fuck but I’ve not yet seen another blog post that contains as much shit as mine.

JBuilder, Eclipse, WebStorm, Atom, VS Code - The evolution of my development IDEs before I moved to the cloud. Learn why I did and how you can too!

Microsoft today announced the release of Windows Terminal Preview 1.4 with new features.

Error catching can be hard to catch at times (no pun intended). If you’re not used to error handling, this short post might help you do it elegantly. There are many posts about error handling in R (and in fact the examples in the purrr package documentation are not bad either).

Supercharge your Development Workflow

It all starts with sandboxes. Development sandboxes are dedicated safe spaces for experimentation and creativity. A sandbox is a place where you can go to test and break things, without the ramifications of breaking the real, important things. If you’re an analytic administrator who doesn’t have access or means to get a sandbox, I recommend that you consider advocating to change that. Here are just some of the arguments for why sandboxes are a powerful tool for the R admin that you may find helpful.

How to load geospatial data into your workspace and prepare it for visualization.

You don't need to go to university to get a world-class computer science education. Let's go over all the resources and tips you'll need to get a job as a software engineer, and you can do it without leaving your room.

There is a new Extensions Menu available in the latest Microsoft Edge Insider Dev build. As noted in a post by Bleeping Computer, this new extensions menu can currently only be enabled for the Edge…

Converting Word docx to markdown

How to create scale-to-zero Shiny apps on Google Cloud Run: pitfalls, how and why

Some examples of running R applications on Google Kubernetes Engine

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GitHub is where people build software. More than 56 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 100 million projects.

A new interest at the moment is engineering through various data privacy requirements with some of the new tools Google has available. With respect to my guiding principle of blogging about what I wish I could have read 6 months ago, I thought it worth writing about what is now possible. Data privacy engineering also requires clear thinking about the legal and technical details and so this will also help organise my communication around the subject.