Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org

@scottwilson @b0rk I remember when people who wrote in Visual Basic were scoffed at but there was a lot of industry-specific software written by subject matter experts that wouldn't have been written at all without access to easy-to-learn and understand languages.

If you are drafting figures for a scientific paper or presentation, remember that https://scidraw.io/ exists: a repository of free SVG cartoons for science.

#SciDraw is supported by the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre.

All content on SciDraw is shared under creative commons license (CC-BY) unless stated otherwise.

#inkscape #SVG #science

Vaults are the most mysterious things inside the cell. This profile of Leonard Rome - the Vault Guy - is fascinating.

#cellbiology

https://www.science.org/content/article/biologist-aims-solve-cell-s-biggest-mystery-could-it-help-cancer-patients-too

Check it out, the #Shiny extension for #VSCode now supports both Shiny for R apps *and* Shiny for Python apps in everyone's second favorite IDE!

Along with the updates come a few neat features for deploying your Shiny apps as serverless ShinyLive apps using https://shinylive.io, or for saving a ShinyLive app as local #RStats or #Python files.

Learn more and see the extension in action in our release post: https://shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/shiny-vscode-1.0.0/

I am so deeply, deeply tired of every god damned "can be answered with a tutorial" technical question search being overwhelmingly flooded with videos. I don't want videos. I don't want to *listen* to something I can read. I am at least 50% deaf. GIVE ME WORDS DAMN YOU. WOOORDSSSSS!

I collected all my writing on PCA into a free long-form math book.

https://peterbloem.nl/publications/unraveling-pca

It's called "Unraveling principal component analysis" and it contains a narrative explanation of PCA all the way down to the foundations.

That means it discusses eigenvectors, singular value decompositions, the spectral theorem, low-rank decompositions and much more.

The solar eclipse inspired our new puzzle design! It's double-sided: the sun on one side and the moon on the other. By flipping pieces over, you can gradually eclipse the sun turning day to night https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9636

I put Breakout (aka Brick Breaker) inside Google Calendar! It lets you decline any meetings you shatter.

blog info + chrome extension link in thread!

Few things bring home how much big tech caring about diversity was a zero interest rate phenomenon like Women Who Code shutting down due to lack of funding.

https://womenwhocode.com/blog/the-end-of-an-era-women-who-code-closing

Wow, after 25 years of Unix experience, I learned that you can filter output in #less.

Press ampersand (&) and enter a regex to show only lines matching the regex.

Press ampersand (&) and then exclamation mark (!) to apply an inverse filter.

I have programmed a small #rstats script combining the web-based #API of our SolarEdge #photovoltaic system with the local API of our go-e #wallbox.

If the car charges, the script looks up the production of the PV system and increases/decreases the charging current for the car accordingly. This makes the most of the collected #solar power. What now runs on an old #Raspberry Pi would’ve easily cost us 500 EUR + installation costs – and I have full control over everything! 🤓🤩

Because they bring me such joy, I will share with you all the software testing videos I share with my Software Design and Development students.

Video 1/3: “We don’t need user testing! We already know our users”