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This is my personal blog. While I may showcase some of my professional work and learning, any opinions expressed are mine alone!

 
CPD for July 2025
7 min
Python
Advent of Code
Advent of Code 2024
Polars
uv
A grab bag of stuff
Jul 11, 2025

7/17/25, 11:15:30 PM

Accessing R HTML help pages from outside a container
5 min
R
Quarto
Python
Neovim
Container
Docker
Podman
Solved by an R legend (not me)
May 9, 2025

7/11/25, 5:35:15 PM

A containerised Neovim dev environment for R and Quarto
12 min
R
Quarto
Python
Neovim
Container
Docker
Podman
I got nerd-sniped.
May 1, 2025

5/2/25, 12:42:53 AM

Learning Neovim is Hard
7 min
R
Python
Neovim
VS Code
Trying to orient myself in the Neovim landscape proved harder than I anticipated
Mar 24, 2025

5/1/25, 9:35:36 PM

A VS Code window showing the R dataset 'mtcars' open as a standalone csv file. The Rainbow CSV extension is installed and enabled, applying a series of alternating colours to the columns of mtcars.csv

VS Code for R on macOS
15 min
VS Code
Visual Studio Code
R
More or less everything you need to know to get started
Dec 20, 2023

1/20/25, 11:36:10 AM

Green text streaming vertically down a black background. It looks like the code seen in The Matrix movies.

Day 3 - Advent of Code 2023
9 min
R
base R
Advent of Code
Advent of Code 2023
Commitment to a data structure
Dec 15, 2023

1/20/25, 11:36:10 AM
 
Day 2 - Advent of Code 2023
15 min
R
base R
Advent of Code
Advent of Code 2023
In which we compare multiple solutions.
Dec 10, 2023

1/20/25, 11:36:10 AM
 
Day 1 - Advent of Code 2023
5 min
R
Advent of Code
Advent of Code 2023
Harder than I thought it would be. Much harder.
Dec 4, 2023

1/20/25, 11:36:10 AM

Making the terminal zsh-tosh on macOS
5 min
terminal
zsh
command line
macOS
bat
eza
ohmyzsh
My favourite command line tools with zsh
Oct 12, 2023

1/20/25, 11:36:10 AM

Comfy keyboard shortcuts for RStudio
7 min
R
RStudio
Aimed at beginner and intermediate users
Aug 4, 2023

1/20/25, 11:36:10 AM

A cropped photograph of the eyes and surrounding fur of a cat's face. The cat is a chimera with green eyes, the left side of her face coloured black and the right side orange. The cat's name is Damsel.

Publishing content in Quarto using conditionals and if/else code flow
6 min
Quarto
R
knitr
A selection of simple methods using the knitr engine and HTML output
Apr 24, 2023

1/20/25, 12:20:09 PM
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