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Headlamp in 2025: Project Highlights

This announcement is a recap from a post originally published on the Headlamp blog. Headlamp has come a long way in 2025. The project has continued to...

Jan 22, 2026 • 5 min read

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Experimenting with Gateway API using kind

This document will guide you through setting up a local experimental environment with Gateway API on kind. This setup is designed for learning and tes...

Jan 28, 2026 • 5 min read

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Introducing Node Readiness Controller

In the standard Kubernetes model, a node’s suitability for workloads hinges on a single binary "Ready" condition. However, in modern Kuberne...

Feb 03, 2026 • 5 min read

Crypto

Spotlight on SIG Architecture: API Governance

This is the fifth interview of a SIG Architecture Spotlight series that covers the different subprojects, and we will be covering SIG Architecture: AP...

Feb 12, 2026 • 5 min read

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Before You Migrate: Five Surprising Ingress-NGINX Behaviors You Need to Know

As announced November 2025, Kubernetes will retire Ingress-NGINX in March 2026. Despite its widespread usage, Ingress-NGINX is full of surprising defa...

Feb 27, 2026 • 5 min read

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Announcing the AI Gateway Working Group

The community around Kubernetes includes a number of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Working Groups (WGs) facilitating discussions on important top...

Mar 09, 2026 • 5 min read

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January 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

Two hundred forty-one of the new packages submitted to CRAN in January were still there in mid-February. Here are my Top 40 picks in nineteen categori...

Feb 27, 2026 • 5 min read

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Zut, Git ! Porting {saperlipopette} to the terminal with Claude

A while ago, I decided to learn some Rust. I bought a book, opened it months later and started a small side-project: porting my R package saperlipopet...

Feb 27, 2026 • 5 min read

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Pacific island population pyramids (again) by @ellis2013nz

This post is the fifth of a series of seven on population issues in the Pacific, re-generating the charts I used in a keynote speech before the Novemb...

Feb 28, 2026 • 5 min read

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Declaring generative AI use in research and university studies

I often find requests to ‘declare use of generative AI’ frustratingly vague. There’s so many different potential uses. And use can be reported at so m...

Mar 01, 2026 • 5 min read

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How to Fit Hierarchical Bayesian Models in R with brms: Partial Pooling Explained

Hierarchical Bayesian modeling (also called multilevel modeling) is one of the most reliable ways to build predictive and inferential models when your...

Mar 01, 2026 • 5 min read

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rOpenSci Dev Guide 1.0.0: Trilingual and Improved

Read it in: Español.Read it in: Português. rOpenSci Software Peer Review’s guidance is gathered in an online book that keeps improving! This blog post...

Mar 02, 2026 • 5 min read

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Getting to the bottom of TMLE: the (almost) vanishing nuisance interaction

In the previous post, I argued that understanding TMLE starts with understanding how estimation error behaves. In particular, we saw that influence fu...

Mar 02, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

A Few Claude Skills for R Users

If you’re like me, you might be feeling a bit overwhelmed by all the new AI tools for coding. So, this post may be adding one more thing to your plate...

Mar 02, 2026 • 5 min read

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Agentic coding with R workshop

Join our workshop on Agentic coding with R,  which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series!  Here’s some more info:  Title: Agentic coding with...

Mar 02, 2026 • 5 min read

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Why did I create ESR (my thoughts on ESS)

Ever since I was using a text editor for R I have been using ESS. That makes it 10 years now. And so, I have decided that it is enough. I started usin...

Mar 03, 2026 • 5 min read

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Data Visualization, Second Edition

I’ve written a second edition of Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction, which ideally should come out with Princeton University Press later thi...

Mar 06, 2026 • 5 min read

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eSports Analytics in R: Predicting Dota 2 Matches

eSports analytics is still an underexplored area in the R ecosystem, which makes it a great niche for practical, original work. While football, basket...

Mar 06, 2026 • 5 min read

Crypto

DuckDB + dbplyr: When Your Pipeline Gives Different Results Every Time It Runs

You can read the original post in its original format on Rtask website by ThinkR here: DuckDB + dbplyr: When Your Pipeline Gives Different Results Eve...

Mar 08, 2026 • 5 min read

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Learning PK/PD Simulation: A Beginner’s Monte Carlo Analysis With mrgsolve in R

🧪 Diving into PK/PD for the first time — simulating ceftriaxone with mrgsolve in R. Free drug levels were… surprisingly high? Even pushed it to q48h...

Mar 09, 2026 • 5 min read