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21 September
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
Three New Debugging Aids in knitr Note This is one of a few posts on new features from a recent four-day knitr triage sprint; see that post for the full details of the sprint. When a document fails to knit, the worst part isn’t the error—it&…
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Tangling Gets Smarter in knitr Note This is one of a few posts on new features from a recent four-day knitr triage sprint; see that post for the full details of the sprint. Tangle is the old Literate Programming (e.g., WEB/Sweave) term for pulling th…
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spin() Improvements in knitr Note This is one of a few posts on new features from a recent four-day knitr triage sprint; see that post for the full details of the sprint. The concept of spin() is like the reverse of purl(). Instead of pulling code…
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+ 2 more More Capable Cache in knitr Note This is one of a few posts on new features from a recent four-day knitr triage sprint; see that post for the full details of the sprint. knitr’s chunk cache is one of those features that may have quietly save…
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The knitr SQL Engine Grows Up Note This is one of a few posts on new features from a recent four-day knitr triage sprint; see that post for the full details of the sprint. knitr’s sql engine lets you write a SQL query in a code chunk, run it a…
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20 September
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
18 September
Forecaster, founder of FiveThirtyEight, author of The Signal and the Noise and On the Edge. Writes Silver Bulletin, where the predictions come with numbers and the numbers are later checked against what happened.
American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.
Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.
I'm going to come right out and say it: statistical extrapolation is *fine*. One of the most useful ways to understand the present and anticipate the future is to measure the things that happened in the past, find the correlations among them, and extrapolate likely future outcomes from those correlations. - If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read/share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/18/surprise/#wow-signal 1/ Related
16 September
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
15 September
British comics writer and novelist (Transmetropolitan, Planetary, The Authority, Gun Machine). Keeps a public daily notebook logging what he reads, watches and listens to.
15sep26 New pens have arrived. Pigma Microns, Pentel Energels, a Uni-ball Signo 207, WRITECH Space-Up, and a new Drehgriffel gel pen. OPERATIONS: sprint week continues READING:
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4 September
Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.
This question... I have spent far too many hours contemplating it. I have discovered multiple answers depending on how deep you want to go. The most pragmatic answer: you want to win a marathon, not a sprint. Too much sprinting makes you worse at marathons. The hard part, of course, is knowing how much is 'too much sprinting.' But in my experience, if the person thinks they need a break, they need a break (or, more extremely, they are not a good fit for the company.) Related
13 May
Danish software engineer and Microsoft technical fellow, creator of Turbo Pascal and Delphi and lead architect of C# and TypeScript.
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You know, there's open source and there's open development. And and and we were technically open source in the beginning, but it was not open development. We would sort of lob the source code out in this repository and scrape the issues off of that and put it into our internal issue tracker.
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7 January
Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.
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Another book by the authors of Sprint, this one focusing on the Foundation Sprint: how to identify your target customer and understand their problem
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From my former partners in GV Design—how to cut through the crap, identify a problem, and test it in only one week.
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4 September 2025
Palaeontologist at Queen Mary University of London; studies dinosaur behaviour and writes about what the fossil record can and cannot tell us.
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They're relatively efficient compared to a lot of other things, and particularly compared to the herbivores, so that means they're probably looking at long distance rather than speed.
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25 March 2025
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
19 January 2025
Growth advisor and operator who has led growth at Miro, Amplitude, Dropbox and SurveyMonkey.
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I try to focus 20% 20 to 25% of growth team's time annually, not every given sprint, not every given quarter, but annually, to introduce a new growth loop.
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6 March 2023
Front-end developer and writer on Svelte, Vue, CSS and WordPress; blogs at joshcollinsworth.com.
5 January 2023
Front-end developer and writer on Svelte, Vue, CSS and WordPress; blogs at joshcollinsworth.com.
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