Dr. Mowinckel's

I had never ported a Rust crate to R, and I wanted more control over link checking than I was getting.

I’m an R person who somehow shipped two cross-platform desktop apps in a Rust + Tauri + React stack I don’t speak natively.

My Hugo blog renders Quarto-generated figures with my own theme’s image render hook, which means I want figures to come out as plain markdown image syntax — not the verbose <figure> HTML that Quarto’s hugo-md format produces by default.

It’s been two years since I started tracking my Long Covid with the Visible app, and a year since I last sat down with the data here on the blog.

The Norwegian Directorate of Health published draft guidelines for ME/CFS that recommend graded activity over pacing — the opposite of what NICE 2021 concluded and what the biomedical evidence supports.

My dotfiles repo has evolved from basic shell configs to a full system that keeps my AI coding agents in sync.

Stop playing “diagnostics ping-pong” with your users.

A year of deliberate work despite post-COVID recovery: API explorations with httr2, the R Package Development Advent Calendar, ggseg improvements, and looking ahead to 2026.

A comprehensive guide to modern R package development, covering setup, documentation, testing, CI/CD, and CRAN submission, a summary of a social media advent calendar.

Deep dive into apply() for matrices and high-dimensional arrays.

Make your own glowing, wiggly ghosts in R with a dash of randomness and a lot of neon.

Learn when and how to use mapply for applying functions with multiple varying arguments.

Explore the dynamics of Hugo modules and Git submodules in managing site dependencies efficiently.

Learn how to automate LinkedIn carousel creation with R and the free Gemini API.

This post details the process of setting up an OAuth2 Machine-to-Machine (M2M) client using the httr2 package in R.

This blog post delves into the my personal Long Covid data, collected via the Visible app, using Principal Component Analysis (PCA).

This post dives into a year of tracking Long Covid symptoms and progress using the Visible app.

After 6 months, Positron’s modern interface, polyglot support, & viewers are loved.

In this post I explore local large language models (LLMs) with R for code assistance, using tools like chores, ensure, gander, and continue in Positron.

I share my experience integrating R with the LinkedIn API, focusing on personal authentication and posting processes.

A deeply personal reflection on a challenging year with long COVID, highlighting the journey through illness, rehab, support from loved ones, and small victories.

With the recent mass exodus from Xitter, Bluesky has emerged as a new home for the R community.

Learn how to use apply-functions in R to read multiple files efficiently.

Optimize your blog’s SEO and Zenodo metadata with automated summaries using Hugging Face’s text summarization models.

Making your blog FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) by archiving posts on Zenodo and adding DOIs.

Positron, an IDE developed for data science, combines the best features of RStudio and Visual Studio Code.

Improve your GitHub profile with these tips.

Customize your R startup experience by modifying the R startup message, adding useful system information, and fun elements like a praise or colour bar.

Explore my programming IDE journey, from MATLAB and gedit to RStudio and VSCode.

Learn how to handle git mistakes and recover lost work with simple solutions.

Learn to create model matrices for Freesurfer Linear Mixed Models (LMM) in R using built-in functions.

Teaching is rewarding, especially in coding workshops.

Reflecting on the past years, I’ve focused on significant career milestones, volunteer work, and a new website revamp.

This is a theme for creating a website theme for the Hugo static site generator.

Revamping a website and organizing content can be challenging.

Attending Posit::conf (formerly RStudio::conf) in Chicago was an exhilarating experience filled with learning, speaking engagements, insightful workshops, and connecting with the R and Data Science communities.

Explore 15 essential pieces of R code to streamline your data analysis and visualization workflow.

Learn to replace loops with vectorized apply functions in R for efficient data manipulation.

Workshop: How to work efficiently with datasets in R using the Tidyverse, a Carpentries-style workshop.

Generate automated reports in Rmarkdown by creating reusable child templates.

Switch from Disqus to Giscus for comments on your Hugo site using blogdown.

Learn to build Hugo websites using GitHub Actions and deploy them with Netlify.

We released a new version of the ggseg R-package for visualizing brain atlases.

Here’s a ggplot2 holiday card wishing you a better 2021!

This year, I started a Twitter advent calendar showcasing one R-package per day, each of which I find essential for my work.

Workshop: A 6 hour introduction to Quarto for report generation in R.

R-Packages: A set of packages for visualizing brain atlas data in R.

Linear regression is essential in psychology, often disguised as t-tests or ANOVAs.

Updating my hugo setup on netlify took over a year of delays due to complexities.

For neuroimaging, toggling between R and imaging software like FSL or Freesurfer is common.