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TL;DR: Please help me extend this GitHub repo by adding your own base R programming idioms: https://github.com/nanxstats/r-base-shortcuts.

Many outstanding researchers and labs have created visualizations of their research using word clouds.

As part of my JavaScript learning journey, I created a fork of Jason Davies’ word cloud generator and added some new features with a few adjustments to the default parameters.

The release checklist generation function described in this post is also available in this GitHub Gist.

Rubber duck debugging.

Photo by Amy Shamblen.

The code to reproduce the results in this post is also available here.

Majesty Palm.

Cassette collection.

A visual comparison between Latin Modern (blue) and MLModern (red) at the same size.

3D render from Rodion Kutsaiev.

I built a GPU selector for deep learning workflows at nanx.me/gpu/, based on the recommendations from the blog post written by Tim Dettmers.

The link checker code in this post is also available in this GitHub Gist.

TL;DR: I published my first VS Code extension/theme on Visual Studio Marketplace, with the source hosted on GitHub.

Photo by DeepMind.

The code in this post is also available in this GitHub Gist.

The gene embedding training code is available from https://github.com/nanxstats/exp2vec.

The R code in this post is also available in this GitHub Gist.

I constantly feel lucky to witness the growth of the R web framework, Shiny, in the past ten years.

The R and JavaScript code to reproduce the results in this post is available from https://github.com/nanxstats/r-readability-parser.

The R code in this post is also available at this GitHub Gist.

Photo by Thomas Reaubourg. gtsummary The other day, I looked into Daniel Sjoberg’s gtsummary package for summarizing tabular data and regression models.

The R code to reproduce the results in this post is available from https://github.com/nanxstats/r-serialize-timemachine.

The Shiny app template is available from nanxstats/shiny-loading-skeleton.

The R code in this post is also available as this GitHub Gist.

The R code in this post is also available as this GitHub Gist.

The R code in this post is also available as this GitHub Gist.

Photo by Mateo Giraud.

The Shiny app skeleton is available from nanxstats/shiny-fcp-loader.

Photo by Katie Treadway.

TL;DR: If you use the native font stack (the default in Bootstrap 4+), check the numbers displayed in tables, especially on Apple’s platforms.

The R code to reproduce the results is available from the GitHub repo nanxstats/cran-file-exts.

Photo by Will Porada.

A new hex sticker wall of my R packages.

The R code to reproduce the results is available from GitHub Gist.

TL;DR: I have rewritten the Hugo Tanka theme entirely using Bootstrap 4 while still keeping its original look and feel.

Good software requires even better testing.

Safari 14 introduced a new UI component that I cannot love more: a privacy report detailing all the third-party trackers blocked by WebKit’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP).

“Diversity is essential to happiness, and in Utopia there is hardly any.”

Photo by @uniqueton.

After procrastinating for some time, I finally set up a dedicated self-hosting server, nanx.app, for my public shiny apps.

On the journey of achieving reproducibility in genomic data analysis projects, one often faces challenges with documenting workflows and computations systematically.

The R package built for this post is available on GitHub: nanxstats/logreg.

Photo by Elena Prokofyeva.

In 2018, I built a PC to train models with GPU.

Like cameras, online trackers are everywhere.

“Everything looks official with tiny leaves around it.”

For a long time, I have been maintaining my homepage and the portfolio pages (software, papers) with HTML purely written by hand.

“They’ll take your soul if you let them — don’t let them.”

A roadmap may tell how you can get there but doesn’t tell you where to go.