Mara Averick

We've been taught that being indispensable is a sign of success. In open source, it can also be a liability. The healthiest projects aren't built around heroes. They're built so that others can eventually take the work farther than we could alone. blog.stdlib.io/build-for-in...

Not every open-source project wants more contributors right now, and that's fine. Four shapes maintainers run — walled castle, clique, university, hippie commune — and your `CONTRIBUTING.md` is saying the quiet part out loud. No wrong answer, just an honest one. blog.stdlib.io/do-you-want-...

I'm alive *AND* I wrote a blog post?! Unheard of! Much 💖 to @abbycabs.dev, and @grafana.bsky.social's David Allen and Amanda Wagner whose FOSDEM talk's were a huge source of inspo!

For years, open source communities relied on visible friction: people got stuck, asked questions in public, and became part of a community. AI is changing that. What happens when newcomers are no longer visible—and neither side knows the other is there? blog.stdlib.io/ai-and-the-i...

New blog post! Learn how to use #rstats to load & clean & play with all the location history data Google keeps about you and look at neat plots and tables about our 5,000-mile summer road trip along the way https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2023/07/03/using-google-location-history-with-r-roadtrip/

Alright, I'll bite: here's a feed that will collect all rstats posts on bluesky in one convenient spot: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nnvf4hwrvrixzogemf23ntcp/feed/rstats-latest No promises about longevity, uptime, reliability, etc! https://bsky.app/profile/apreshill.com/post/3jx24zs67ek27

🥰 Let LittleMissData give you some data❣️ feels… 💌 “My Love Letter to Data” https://www.littlemissdata.com/blog/data-love-letter

https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ now finds your Twitter contacts on Bluesky as well. Currently quite basic by checking for bsky.app or bsky.social links. I started with DNS TXT lookups, which worked great until I tested it with thousands of accounts which triggered the DDoS protection.

I haven't used ChatGPT to code much…BUT this 5-min video w/ Matt Dancho is a nice lil' case study/crash course: 🦾 “How to R code faster with ChatGPT” https://www.business-science.io/code-tools/2023/04/30/chatgpt-prompt-osmdata.html

I swear this isn't a @tanyashapiro.bsky.social stan account, but if you like dataviz, R, Drag Race…cool things, this convo about her adventures w/ Observable is a great read: Data consultant from the R world uses JavaScript to “bring viz to life” https://observablehq.com/blog/r-to-javascript-shapiro

I know hashtags aren't a thing here (I think), but putting out the #rstats signal just in case so you don't miss this opportunity to learn from one of my faves 👇