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I inadvertently derailed a wonderful thread on MOCs a while back, and with the topic coming back up just now in the great thread on the IMF/LYT system, I figured I’d open this topic so as to divert any such discussion from that thread, as well as have a dedicated place to openly discuss/debate such things. This graphic largely summarizes what I was getting at in both other threads It is my sense and observation that in this PKM space (and, frankly, the general world) that people are living ...

This starter kit is designed to get you immediately hands-on with ways to manage your digital notes. Experiment. Learn by doing. See what methods work for you. »» Download the LYT Kit «« Check out the LYT Kit on Obsidian Publish LYT Kit v4 Release Notes: 188 Notes Highly refactored: more “signal” less “noise” Expanded “Evergreen Notes” section. Revised Home Note Revised Home MOCs Caveats for Asperger’s and ADHD Changed acronym to LYT General clean-up Old Version: https://github.com/nick...

Technical details and select highlights of my project to bring RStudio addins to VSCode.

Finally Javascript is making full headway into Object Oriented Programming. Here's a tutorial on how to begin using the features some of the latest updates have put out.

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Both R and distributed programming rank highly on my list of “good things”, so imagine my delight when two new... The post The Evolution of Distributed Programming in R appeared first on Mango Solutions.

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

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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).

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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.

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…

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.