Being a geek of a certain age, I really enjoy this bot's posts. Sometimes, though I wonder: who thought it was a good idea to make a Winamp skin to celebrate the Fiat Doblo?
https://botsin.space/@winampskins/112846545251055420

King of the Mountain: using R to bag a Strava KOM

https://quantixed.org/2024/07/20/king-of-the-mountain-using-r-to-bag-a-strava-kom/

#computing #cycling #maps #Rstats #running #Strava

My Mastodon bot @albums has been failing to post occasionally. While investigating this issue I made the exciting discovery that the album list that it uses to form posts was accidentally abridged. Instead of 2 years worth of album posts, there should be ~5 years worth. This explains why certain artists had conspicuously not featured much.

The non-posting issue seems to be something to do with the album artwork being rejected when the post is formed. Will try to fix everything soon. 🎵❤️

This weekend's adventures in data science are on hold due to #Strava API locking out my app for making too many requests. Boo.

Slacker II: archiving information from a Slack workspace

https://quantixed.org/2024/07/07/slacker-ii-archiving-information-from-a-slack-workspace/

#computing #python #slack

My preprint template got a surge of stars and forks on #GitHub in the last week or so. I wish I knew why. Presumably someone has used it and publicised the template.

It's currently at 57 stars and 37 forks. If these were citations, this repo would outperform many of my papers :/

Best computing tip I've received is the mnemonic to remember the best flags for rsync.

alien versus predator

as in:
rsync -avp source/ destination/

-a, --archive, archive mode; equals -rlptgoD (no -H,-A,-X)
-v, --verbose, increase verbosity
-p, --perms, preserve permissions

#commandline