Radovan Bast

The VOD for my BSC2026 talk "The Root of The Root of All Evil" is now available! It's the spiritual successor to last year's "The Big OOPs", so if you enjoyed that one, join me for one more adventure into the history of computer science: computerenhance.com/theroot

⬡ Today, we become the Institute for Research Software. For 15 years, we've worked as the Software Sustainability Institute to make research software more sustainable and properly recognised.

"The technical improvements were ultimately a side benefit of this agentic rewrite. The real business function was publicity. It helped Anthropic tell the story it needs to tell, the story that “AI is enough”." Brilliant piece by @raymyers.bsky.social raymyers.org/post/zed-cre...

If you really need to visit an x/twitter URL without having an x account and without giving that site your data, replace `x.com` by `twiiit.com`. More info: twiiit.com - thanks to @chr15m.bsky.social for this tool which finds an available nitter instance.

I'm porting Quake to 3D CSS, so it runs in the browser without WebGL. It's open source 👹 Play it! cssquake.com Repo: github.com/LayoutitStud...

Something awesome about Bluesky: 1. I see a post I'd like to load in my agent. 2. "wouldn't it be nice if I could give it the atproto link?" 3. Wait, markdown would be better, let's try renaming the domain to bsky.md on the off-chance… 4. It works 🤯

🎉 JOSS turns 10 today! Ten years, 3,500+ papers, 11,000+ authors, 4000+ reviewers, and a community that built something remarkable together. Thank you to everyone who's reviewed, edited, authored, or cheered us on along the way 💚 joss.theoj.org #openscience #opensource

Last week, I gave a keynote at appliedml.us/2026/ on machine learning and engineering. Like a lot of us, I've had questions and anxiety around software development today. The talk covers why good engineering is still important (and 🌷). vickiboykis.com/2026/04/20/b...

This week on Counting Stuff, how I approach reviewing other people's code and work! tl;dr the point is to make stuff that's already going out be slightly better as it leaves the door, not be a gatekeeping jerk #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/code-review-...

The peril of laziness lost bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/t...

alright tanglers, it's back to shipping 🛳️ 🌐 Tangled Sites is here: serve websites straight from your repo. grab your `tngl.io` domain at tangled.org/settings/sites. already have a `tngl.sh` handle? that's your domain—ready to go! 📄 docs.tangled.org/hosting-webs...

Few days before @coderefinery.org workshop, Spring 2026! This year, on top of the usual hands-on teaching of git, GitHub, reproducibility, good coding practices we have something new: "Responsible Use of Generative AI in Assisted Coding"! The workshop is 100% free and happens entirely via TwitchTV

As a connoisseur of online color tools, it’s such a delight to discover a new funky take on the palette generator experience. I love the Teenage Engineering / Dieter Rams aesthetic here colorpalette.pro

I had some fun pulling OpenAI's mission statement out of their IRS tax filings from 2016 to 2024, loading them into a git repo with fake commit dates and then taking a look at the diffs simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/13/...

TIL that SQLite has R-trees: www.sqlite.org/rtree.html This means that I can have a lightweight and portable "mini-PostGIS" database all in one file for super fast range queries that I can take with me to any other computer.

Here is what I've been doing this past week: git.olaren.dev/Olaren/mapto... A little python program that generates poster for cities! You might have seen stuff like this around lately, but I modified it to put an emphasis on rail infrastructure :3

formats over apps

My #RPackageAdvent2025 recap is live! 📦✨ Get the complete guide to modern R package development: setup, docs, testing, CI/CD, and CRAN submission. All 25 days of tips, tools, and best practices in one place! Dive in! #RStats #RPackageDevelopment Link: https://drmo.site/8ny3eU

so pumped for the ty beta to finally be here, we did so much great work it rules! astral.sh/blog/ty

🎄 ANNOUNCEMENT: R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025! 🎄 Starting December 1st, I'm launching a 25-day journey through modern R package development. here's why you should follow along 🧵 #rstats #RPackageAdvent2025 #OpenSource

Diátaxis is an amazing resource that I recommend to everyone writing documentation or tutorials: diataxis.fr I find myself returning to it every few weeks, and each time I learn something new. #documentation

A bug in my code produced a psychedelic map. This was supposed to look very different but I liked the result. #dataviz

1st episode of 2025 winter season of #code4thought: radovan.xyz, Richard & samumantha.bsky.social explain how the coderefinery.org helps researchers get up to speed with the digital/software skills they all need. Out not on your podcast app, YouTube podcast and codeforthought.buzzsprout.com

Today I watched "The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five Year Mistake" [C. Muratori] - amazing presentation and a carefully researched history lesson about OOP, about where the core ideas came from and where some really good ideas got lost: www.computerenhance.com/p/the-big-oo...

Looking back at years of doing web development with a tiny browser console log window and complaining about it until I learned that I can configure it to use a separate window.

It is such a joy to browse the amazing interactive articles by Bartosz Ciechanowski - like this one (but there is so much more!): ciechanow.ski/mechanical-w...

💡 TIL that G. Voronyi (of Voronoi diagrams) was the doctoral advisor of B. N. Delaunay (Delaunay triangulation) and W. Sierpiński (Sierpiński fractals).

Trying out my first Windows installation in this century - what did I miss?

We at NSF Unidata are pleased to announce that we have now received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the next year of our five-year award. This allows us to end the current furlough of our staff and resume our operations. buff.ly/GafcZts

Due to the current gap in funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program is pausing most operations effective 12 May 2025. Nearly all staff will be furloughed until funds from our existing NSF grant become available. For more information, see buff.ly/d2TC1Oy

US-RSE is here! 🎉 @us-rse.bsky.social

I wrote about how I interface #Fortran and #rustlang: radovan.xyz/blog/fortran...

Having fun typing a blog post about how to call #rustlang from #Fortran. It's all about choosing the right tools.

This amazing space is recharging and inspiring like a visit to a museum or an art exhibition.

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

TIL about this very cool #map of bedrock by the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU): geo.ngu.no/kart/berggru...

Time to archive data. #FiveThirtyEight

Typst is such a pleasure to work with: the usability, the documentation, the Typst Universe, the Open Source - thank you!

Closeread Prize winners are here! 🏆 Want to create engaging, scroll-based stories with your data? See stunning scrollytelling examples made with Quarto: posit.co/blog/closere... Learn more about Closeread and its power to create dynamic narratives. Congrats winners! #Quarto #RStats #Python

I've been collecting guidance, documents, examples for open-source software projects, such as on governance, code of conduct, licenses, etc. in github.com/corsa-center.... Now I would like to add sustainability plans. What projects have good plans? Or even guides about how to write one.

⚒️ CodeRefinery free online workshop on tools and techniques for more reproducible research; six half-days March 25-27 and April 1-3, 2025 More info and registration: coderefinery.github.io/2025-03-25-w... #RSEng #FAIR #researchsoftware #git

Thank you for this brilliant episode! It really brought hope and clarity into these dark ages.

Donate to Wikipedia. Do it today, and every time one of the broligarchs has a tantrum because he can’t buy it

When assisting researchers with #HPC computing and programming, 90% of my effort is spent on reproducing the problem, and only 10% on finding a solution. I used to motivate #reproducibility with "it's good for others". Now: "it's good for you and allows me to help". Others benefit as side-effect.

Big thanks to #kexp for the David Lynch set yesterday! It improved my day in a sad and happy way. kexp.org