James Goldie
@jamesgoldie.dev
Data engineer @ countercurrent.ai, former #climatehealth 🌡️ + #datajournalism 🗺️
Building, coding and storytelling with #rstats, #js and #swift for fun and for good 😊
Building, coding and storytelling with #rstats, #js and #swift for fun and for good 😊
Real excited that @vscode.dev can do OS notifications when Tasks finish now. I've been wanting this one for years — plenty of #rstats devs who want to be able to minimise their code editor while a chunky analysis runs!
October 15, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Real excited that @vscode.dev can do OS notifications when Tasks finish now. I've been wanting this one for years — plenty of #rstats devs who want to be able to minimise their code editor while a chunky analysis runs!
Flags like --csv, --json, --html, --markdown, --latex, etc. make @duckdb.org feel like Pandoc for data. Lots of quick data tasks that would either require a dedicated tool or a small #rstats or #python script end up being quick one-liners: duckdb.org/docs/stable/...
June 30, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Flags like --csv, --json, --html, --markdown, --latex, etc. make @duckdb.org feel like Pandoc for data. Lots of quick data tasks that would either require a dedicated tool or a small #rstats or #python script end up being quick one-liners: duckdb.org/docs/stable/...
Love that I'm building a growing family of Teams organisations that I cannot sign into, cannot sign out of and cannot remove with any amount of reinstalling or Keychain-nuking 😮💨 Also great to be kicked back to the login screen every other time I refocus the window, 10/10
May 14, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Love that I'm building a growing family of Teams organisations that I cannot sign into, cannot sign out of and cannot remove with any amount of reinstalling or Keychain-nuking 😮💨 Also great to be kicked back to the login screen every other time I refocus the window, 10/10
TIL that repeat is a control flow keyword in #rstats for a rare form of loop that can only end manually... which means you can't use "repeat" as a column name without backticks 😅
March 4, 2025 at 2:48 AM
TIL that repeat is a control flow keyword in #rstats for a rare form of loop that can only end manually... which means you can't use "repeat" as a column name without backticks 😅
I know there're lots of #ttrpg and #dnd nerds who use @obsidian.md on here! I've been using Canvas for my DM maps for a while, but I recently started using the fantastic Advanced Canvas plugin to hack together canvas cards that appear as icons when not focused. Makes things a lot easier to follow!
January 25, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I know there're lots of #ttrpg and #dnd nerds who use @obsidian.md on here! I've been using Canvas for my DM maps for a while, but I recently started using the fantastic Advanced Canvas plugin to hack together canvas cards that appear as icons when not focused. Makes things a lot easier to follow!
There's still a week left to enter your @quarto.org scrollytelling story in the Closeread Prize and maybe win some swag generously provided by Posit PBC! Entries close Jan 5, Anywhere on Earth.
🏁 Enter here: posit.co/blog/closere...
🎓 Learn Closeread: closeread.dev
🏁 Enter here: posit.co/blog/closere...
🎓 Learn Closeread: closeread.dev
December 29, 2024 at 4:34 AM
There's still a week left to enter your @quarto.org scrollytelling story in the Closeread Prize and maybe win some swag generously provided by Posit PBC! Entries close Jan 5, Anywhere on Earth.
🏁 Enter here: posit.co/blog/closere...
🎓 Learn Closeread: closeread.dev
🏁 Enter here: posit.co/blog/closere...
🎓 Learn Closeread: closeread.dev
Also how do I make whatever this is stop
December 22, 2024 at 6:04 AM
Also how do I make whatever this is stop
I’m giving Apple News Plus a whirl… surely there’s a better way to jump to a specific outlet than making a shortcut 😭
December 22, 2024 at 5:51 AM
I’m giving Apple News Plus a whirl… surely there’s a better way to jump to a specific outlet than making a shortcut 😭
The Closeread Prize has been extended to Jan 5! And scrollytelling with @quarto.org is easier than you think. Aspiring data scientists and data journalists, prize details are here: posit.co/blog/closere...
December 5, 2024 at 2:03 AM
The Closeread Prize has been extended to Jan 5! And scrollytelling with @quarto.org is easier than you think. Aspiring data scientists and data journalists, prize details are here: posit.co/blog/closere...
Ready for that #Melbourne change! Don’t usually get days and nights this hot in November. isithotrightnow.com #wx
November 23, 2024 at 6:11 AM
Ready for that #Melbourne change! Don’t usually get days and nights this hot in November. isithotrightnow.com #wx
I should have led with this excellent @posit.co video, which sells the #Closeread Prize much better 😂 Come try out scrollytelling in #QuartoPub and win some rad prizes along the way! #dataviz #rstats #julialang posit.co/blog/closere...
November 2, 2024 at 4:38 AM
I should have led with this excellent @posit.co video, which sells the #Closeread Prize much better 😂 Come try out scrollytelling in #QuartoPub and win some rad prizes along the way! #dataviz #rstats #julialang posit.co/blog/closere...
We're keen to see what people love about #Closeread, as well as what confuses or limits them!
Build up a complicated plot one bit at a time, take people on an educational journey, or explain something you love.
We have some examples to get you started on the new docs! closeread.dev
Build up a complicated plot one bit at a time, take people on an educational journey, or explain something you love.
We have some examples to get you started on the new docs! closeread.dev
November 1, 2024 at 10:17 PM
We're keen to see what people love about #Closeread, as well as what confuses or limits them!
Build up a complicated plot one bit at a time, take people on an educational journey, or explain something you love.
We have some examples to get you started on the new docs! closeread.dev
Build up a complicated plot one bit at a time, take people on an educational journey, or explain something you love.
We have some examples to get you started on the new docs! closeread.dev
Has the Australian Government considered having… fewer apps
October 14, 2024 at 11:49 PM
Has the Australian Government considered having… fewer apps
💡 TIL that the #rstats {httr2} package has some very nice helpers if you're getting data from API that paginates its responses.
This one paginates responses over 5000 rows. You write a function to check that and give it to httr2's helper, it bumps a query param for you and gets 'em all. Easy!
This one paginates responses over 5000 rows. You write a function to check that and give it to httr2's helper, it bumps a query param for you and gets 'em all. Easy!
October 3, 2024 at 3:12 AM
💡 TIL that the #rstats {httr2} package has some very nice helpers if you're getting data from API that paginates its responses.
This one paginates responses over 5000 rows. You write a function to check that and give it to httr2's helper, it bumps a query param for you and gets 'em all. Easy!
This one paginates responses over 5000 rows. You write a function to check that and give it to httr2's helper, it bumps a query param for you and gets 'em all. Easy!
