Carlos Scheidegger
@cscheid.net
Engineer at Posit (fka RStudio), technical lead at quarto.org
Learning Brazilian Choro, the 7-string guitar, and to deal with the Minneapolis winter after 10 years in Tucson
Learning Brazilian Choro, the 7-string guitar, and to deal with the Minneapolis winter after 10 years in Tucson
(My brain decided to not show up for work this afternoon, so you’ll get videogame updates instead)
Hytale’s world gen is pretty good! The caves in it are disorienting, but in a fun way. You get that “one more room” exploration vibe.
Hytale’s world gen is pretty good! The caves in it are disorienting, but in a fun way. You get that “one more room” exploration vibe.
February 9, 2026 at 8:17 PM
(My brain decided to not show up for work this afternoon, so you’ll get videogame updates instead)
Hytale’s world gen is pretty good! The caves in it are disorienting, but in a fun way. You get that “one more room” exploration vibe.
Hytale’s world gen is pretty good! The caves in it are disorienting, but in a fun way. You get that “one more room” exploration vibe.
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Hey, my name is in the Epstein files! I've told the story before, but should probably re-up.
TLDR: never met the guy, never took (or asked for) any money from him, never visited the island. I was invited to the island, and said no.
It's not that hard to just say no.
TLDR: never met the guy, never took (or asked for) any money from him, never visited the island. I was invited to the island, and said no.
It's not that hard to just say no.
February 9, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Hey, my name is in the Epstein files! I've told the story before, but should probably re-up.
TLDR: never met the guy, never took (or asked for) any money from him, never visited the island. I was invited to the island, and said no.
It's not that hard to just say no.
TLDR: never met the guy, never took (or asked for) any money from him, never visited the island. I was invited to the island, and said no.
It's not that hard to just say no.
use-mention problems rule everything around me
February 9, 2026 at 4:15 PM
use-mention problems rule everything around me
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You can write your @ieeevis.bsky.social papers in @typst.app (fast, modern, and accessible alternative to LaTeX)! To make it easier, here is a template I helped make typst.app/universe/pac....
ieee-vgtc – Typst Universe
Templates for IEEE VGTC conferences and TVCG journal papers.
typst.app
February 9, 2026 at 2:34 PM
You can write your @ieeevis.bsky.social papers in @typst.app (fast, modern, and accessible alternative to LaTeX)! To make it easier, here is a template I helped make typst.app/universe/pac....
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good of example of the way that Gen Ai harms art is not through really replacing capital a Art but by replacing human slop with robo slop, and the dirty secret is that slop pays the bills and subsidizes actually good art.
fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
The New Fabio Is Claude
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:19 PM
good of example of the way that Gen Ai harms art is not through really replacing capital a Art but by replacing human slop with robo slop, and the dirty secret is that slop pays the bills and subsidizes actually good art.
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Just put me on a flaming raft and push it out to sea.
February 8, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Just put me on a flaming raft and push it out to sea.
Trying to get back into (some sort of) aerobic shape is undignifying af, send ibuprofen
February 8, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Trying to get back into (some sort of) aerobic shape is undignifying af, send ibuprofen
This ain't it, chief.
February 7, 2026 at 8:35 PM
This ain't it, chief.
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GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
February 7, 2026 at 5:01 AM
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
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Revising the dataviz book is an opportunity to remind enthusiastic beginners of the bitter realities that lie ahead of them.
February 7, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Revising the dataviz book is an opportunity to remind enthusiastic beginners of the bitter realities that lie ahead of them.
Yeah ima rep the home team here, but Wagner Moura would bring the house down
Who do you want to guest host a potential revival of The Muppet Show?
Here’s Who We Want to Guest Host ‘The Muppet Show’ If It’s Revived
February 7, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Yeah ima rep the home team here, but Wagner Moura would bring the house down
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Do you have to be a social scientist to know how funny this is?
February 3, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Do you have to be a social scientist to know how funny this is?
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bro it's your MP. it's your MP. i can see your gauge is flashing. i know you're feeling healthy and well rested but that's a different thing. it's your MP. that's why you're posting bad. try procrastinating an important work task
February 6, 2026 at 4:07 PM
bro it's your MP. it's your MP. i can see your gauge is flashing. i know you're feeling healthy and well rested but that's a different thing. it's your MP. that's why you're posting bad. try procrastinating an important work task
Even conditioned on living in Feb 2026, the vibes are just completely off today in here, huh?
February 6, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Even conditioned on living in Feb 2026, the vibes are just completely off today in here, huh?
I'll take the recommended med vacations and a week in I'll think "oh, maybe this is fine as is". Then I go back and jesus christ, y'all's brains work this well usually? Must be nice!
February 5, 2026 at 11:37 PM
I'll take the recommended med vacations and a week in I'll think "oh, maybe this is fine as is". Then I go back and jesus christ, y'all's brains work this well usually? Must be nice!
Watch this.
Okay, you guys wanted some fun tea on Richard Dawkins? Here you go: one reason he may have gotten super duper angry about me talking about misogyny in atheism
skepchick.org/2026/02/epst...
skepchick.org/2026/02/epst...
Epstein Files Reveal How Pathetic Richard Dawkins & Other Men Are
Transcript: Well, it happened again. I’m mentioned in the Epstein files. Again. You probably saw my first video on this topic and you came away thinking that I’ve spent the past decade being as awe…
skepchick.org
February 5, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Watch this.
The new gelernter-Epstein disgusting stuff is going to cause some folks to lose their minds in a new way once they look into his past huh
February 5, 2026 at 5:24 PM
The new gelernter-Epstein disgusting stuff is going to cause some folks to lose their minds in a new way once they look into his past huh
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past is prologue (which is fucking creepy, please tell ken white to find a new podcast good lord)
February 5, 2026 at 1:03 PM
past is prologue (which is fucking creepy, please tell ken white to find a new podcast good lord)
What’s frustrating is that the hardware is outstanding. This laptop is otherworldly fast. “What Andy giveth, bill takes away” doesn’t go nearly far enough to explain it though. macOS 25 was no 10.7, but it was passable! It didn’t lag for .5s to show icons on Finder with 48GB of ram. Wtf
You scroll down the finder window and it takes half a second for icons to load. Are you genuinely fucking kidding me right now?
Holy cow the new macOS truly is atrocious. I’m 20% through the *welcome* setup steps and I already ran into 3 separate ui issues
February 4, 2026 at 8:00 PM
What’s frustrating is that the hardware is outstanding. This laptop is otherworldly fast. “What Andy giveth, bill takes away” doesn’t go nearly far enough to explain it though. macOS 25 was no 10.7, but it was passable! It didn’t lag for .5s to show icons on Finder with 48GB of ram. Wtf
You scroll down the finder window and it takes half a second for icons to load. Are you genuinely fucking kidding me right now?
Holy cow the new macOS truly is atrocious. I’m 20% through the *welcome* setup steps and I already ran into 3 separate ui issues
February 4, 2026 at 6:23 PM
You scroll down the finder window and it takes half a second for icons to load. Are you genuinely fucking kidding me right now?
Holy cow the new macOS truly is atrocious. I’m 20% through the *welcome* setup steps and I already ran into 3 separate ui issues
February 4, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Holy cow the new macOS truly is atrocious. I’m 20% through the *welcome* setup steps and I already ran into 3 separate ui issues
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For more than a year I have been working on a brand new Jupyter Notebook editor for Positron. This is a ground-up build of a new Jupyter Notebook experience built to leverage all the knowledge and tools Posit/Positron brings to the data science table. 🧵#jupyter
February 4, 2026 at 12:54 PM
For more than a year I have been working on a brand new Jupyter Notebook editor for Positron. This is a ground-up build of a new Jupyter Notebook experience built to leverage all the knowledge and tools Posit/Positron brings to the data science table. 🧵#jupyter
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Can anyone suggest a good guides for using lab notebooks? (Like the traditional pen and paper bench scientist ones, not computational). Like I want to know what you're expected to write down, how you capture and transform the really important stuff, how you refer back to them etc etc
February 3, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Can anyone suggest a good guides for using lab notebooks? (Like the traditional pen and paper bench scientist ones, not computational). Like I want to know what you're expected to write down, how you capture and transform the really important stuff, how you refer back to them etc etc
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a book recommendation!
There Is No Antimemetics Division: a no spoiler recommendation
YouTube video by acollieralso
youtu.be
February 2, 2026 at 1:18 PM
a book recommendation!
Look. It's simple. To first order, you should not ever, *ever* think you can square up against game engine engineers
spader.zone/engine/
spader.zone/engine/
Claude Code's renderer is more complex than a game engine
spader.zone
February 2, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Look. It's simple. To first order, you should not ever, *ever* think you can square up against game engine engineers
spader.zone/engine/
spader.zone/engine/