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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

Banking

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

Banking

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

Banking

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

Banking

2025 State of Rust Survey Results

Hello, Rust community! Once again, the survey team is happy to share the results of the State of Rust survey, this year celebrating a round number - t...

Mar 02, 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

Banking

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

Banking

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

Investing

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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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

Stocks

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

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

Investing

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

Stocks

New Conversion from cgroup v1 CPU Shares to v2 CPU Weight

I'm excited to announce the implementation of an improved conversion formula from cgroup v1 CPU shares to cgroup v2 CPU weight. This enhancement addre...

Jan 30, 2026 • 5 min read

Investing

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

Banking

Cluster API v1.12: Introducing In-place Updates and Chained Upgrades

Cluster API brings declarative management to Kubernetes cluster lifecycle, allowing users and platform teams to define the desired state of clusters a...

Jan 27, 2026 • 5 min read

Investing

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

Banking

crates.io: development update

Time flies! Six months have passed since our last crates.io development update, so it's time for another one. Here's a summary of the most notable cha...

Jan 21, 2026 • 5 min read

Banking

Uniform API server access using clientcmd

If you've ever wanted to develop a command line client for a Kubernetes API, especially if you've considered making your client usable as a kubectl pl...

Jan 19, 2026 • 5 min read