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Describes how to create and use a PowerShell profile.

It's easy to focus on the front end of web development, but what about the back end? Learning about...

A "work bench" to manage projects from within R.

This blog delves deep into Google Cloud Run, its key advantages for developers, and how they can deploy the Shiny app on Cloud Run.

How I research, outline, and draft articles in Obsidian

As an update to this post, here's a list of the major events in R history since its creation: 1992: R development begins as a research project in Auckland, NZ by Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka 1993: First binary versions of R published at Statlib 1995: R first distributed as open-source software, under GPL2 license 1997: R core group formed 1997: CRAN founded (by Kurt Hornik and Fritz Leisch) 1999: The R website, r-project.org, founded 1999: First in-person meeting of R Core team, at inaugural Directions in Statistical Computing conference, Vienna 2000: R 1.0.0 released (February 29) 2000:...

After starting to use spaced repetition more actively and being more consistent with my journaling, now I've tackled improving my note taking skills. Over the last couple of months, I've read about various note-taking methods, different approaches and diverse goals for them and they helped me change my perspective on

JS and R, what a clickbait! Come for JS, stay for our posts about Solaris and WinBuilder. 😉 No matter how strongly you believe in JavaScript being the language of the future (see below), you might still gain from using it in your R practice, be it back-end or front-end. javascript is rly the future and it's evolving closer and closer to some of my cherished older languages . it will outlive python (and R) by a long shot.

In this article you'll learn how to make the right choices when it comes to setting up your development environment on Windows.

Before we start learning how to make websites, we need to know how the Web works. That's one of the m...

Get ready for a surprise! Creating things with letters and characters gives people joy. This is especially true when working with HTML and CSS. Now after you pick your jaw up off the floor let me explain what gives me joy in this process. A long time ago, over twenty years in fact, a younger […]

Make your designs pop with these four tips that apply to almost any project you may be working on.

While using Obsidian, if you press CTRL-SHIFT-I (option-cmd-i for mac) then it will bring up the developer window. In the developer window, at the top left is an icon with a pointer in a box. This allows you to select elements on the screen and see how to refer to them and what styles. I will occasionally update this post with more pictures of how to do stuff. You can hover over items to see what they do and then click on an item to select it. Then go down to the styles section at the bottom...

Process information, plan & execute tasks during the day, and keep track of content and recommendations

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Manage your code snippets, developer notes and interactive samples using GitHub Gists and repositories.

If you just jot notes down, you’re probably not getting as much value out of them as you can. Refactoring them can help unlock the potential of your digital notes to drive new insights and ideas.

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...

Finally a list of things every web developer needs in order to call themselves a good developer!

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

A comprehensive guide on the basics of cloud computing

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.

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.

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.