That's John Frusciante surely

Because bulk S3 operations should be fast and easy. A simple R wrapper to rclone: cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

supports most object stores, should be much faster paws/aws.s3 I think.

(also an alternative to minioclient since minio decided to become AIStor...)

Oh speaking of did you see robstore: github.com/hypertidy/ro...

GitHub - rustfs/cli: A S3-compatible command-line client written in Rust. A S3-compatible command-line client written in Rust. - rustfs/cli

rustfs has `rc` S3 client?! It even matches the minio mc syntax? wow this is a good day. github.com/rustfs/cli

definitely true that most LLMs do better with SQL (though not perfect). Particularly curious to see how well open/local models do in grokking this new DSL or if they just hallucinate syntax.

ggsql: A grammar of graphics for SQL Introducing ggsql, a grammar of graphics for SQL that lets you describe visualizations directly inside SQL queries.

🤯 @posit.co launches ggsql 🤯

- yes it is precisely what it sounds like.
- rust based stand-alone, needs vscode or jupyter (or merely wasm) to run

opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04...

Recently @karinorman.bsky.social , @ctrlalttim.com @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social + I argued it's time we ecologists pay more attention to the carbon footprint of our tools. doi.org/10.1002/fee....

In this spirit: I give you the footprint of our local LLMs on NRP.ai carbon-api.nrp-nautilus.io

I’m not afraid to say it: lentils are underrated

I am beginning to understand the temptation to put tabular data into NetCDF. I am working my way through my 4th unique format in 4 NOAA datasets and this one is not only

YEAR J F M A M J J A S O N D

instead of

Year Month Value

*but* it doesn't use separators, just (variable) column width!

Noooooooo

History will ask: why did no one send armies to liberate Palestine?

It's complicated isn't an answer.

Prince passed away 10 years ago today.

RIP, your music lives on.

It amuses me to see commentators talk about Iran not adhering to International Law or Law of the Seas.

They didn't fucking start anything. America adheres to nothing ever, same with Israel. Israel has never signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

Iran's not the problem. Never was.

GitHub - yihui/crandalf: Check all reverse dependencies of your R package with Github Actions Check all reverse dependencies of your R package with Github Actions - yihui/crandalf

12 years ago I created crandalf at github.com/yihui/crandalf to check reverse dependencies of R packages on Travis CI and switched to GHA later. If your pkg has < 400 revdeps, you can do a simple edit in a .yaml file and submit a PR to let GHA do the hard work. More info: yihui.org/en/2021/06/c...

GitHub - yihui/latex-pass: Help you pass the LaTeX compilation by telling you which LaTeX packages are missing to compile your documents Help you pass the LaTeX compilation by telling you which LaTeX packages are missing to compile your documents - yihui/latex-pass

I find it interesting and a little surprising that (occasionally) people still use github.com/yihui/latex-... to figure out missing LaTeX packages: yihui.org/en/2021/06/l... Obviously TinyTeX still hasn't won the world, which sounds like a major bug that I'm unable to fix. github.com/rstudio/tiny...

The grift never ends. Most corrupt regime in history

Loved his music, an intelligent man.

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell could not have sold children for sex without rich perverts buying them for sex. I feel this needs to be emphasized much more than it is.

Humanity's epitaph

CARS GOT BIGGER

Netanyahu has removed 40 thousand homes in Lebanon in less than a month . This war criminal needs to be brought to final Justice.

Anne Hathaway bought the rights to a novel about a tradwife influencer who wakes up in 1855 and has to actually live the life she's been selling online. The book is called Yesteryear. It came out 3 days ago. The film rights were already sold to Hathaway, who will produce and star.

Holy shit, I have NEVER been more excited for a movie.

NASA astronaut Christina Koch sits in an U.S. Navy MH-60S Seahawk attached to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 on the flight deck of the San Antonio Class amphibious transport dock USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) after returning from space on Apr. 10, 2026.

This picture of Astronaut Christina Koch after the Artemis landing is frankly incredible and beautiful.

Still lots of testing and tinkering to do so any feedback would be most welcome!

Noice

GitHub - belian-earth/spacelaser: An R package for cloud optimised partial reading of GEDI and IceSat data. An R package for cloud optimised partial reading of GEDI and IceSat data. - belian-earth/spacelaser

Still a WIP but I've been building a new #rstats 📦 for cloud optimised reads of #GEDI and IceSat-2 data. It's 20 x quicker than direct download and saves 10-100s of GiB on disk. The #rust powered hdf5 parser is crazy fast - with help from the 🤖.
belian-earth.github.io/spacelaser/ #rspatial #rextendr

Flour comes from a plant, sugar comes from a plant, and chocolate comes from a plant.

So, basically a chocolate chip cookie is a salad.

Thank you for coming to my
Ted talk

Introducing Great Docs: Beautiful Documentation for Python Packages Great Docs is a new documentation site generator for Python packages. It auto-discovers your API, builds a modern site with Quarto, and ships with LLM-friendly features and one-command deployment.

We just released a blog post about something I'm very excited about: Great Docs. Post is in the *new* Posit Open Source site:

opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04...

Great Docs is a #python pkg for creating beautiful Python package websites. We make it easy to use but also give you lots of options.

Um yeah cool I use it 😀 🙏 will do

I'm planning on a GIANT roxygen2 release in the near future (tons of bug fixes, improved R6 support, new S7 support, ...) so if you use for your packages, I'd really appreciate you trying it out and letting me know if you see any problems! github.com/r-lib/roxyge... #rstats