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Jan 3

My Best Reads of 2022

reflection on the best books I read last year — Here’s a reflection on the best books I read in 2022. Included is a lesson or two I learned from each of the self-help books (in the bottom section). Technology The Lazarus Heist: From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea’s Global Cyber War by Geoff White Privacy Is Power: Why…

Best Books

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My Best Reads of 2022
My Best Reads of 2022
Best Books

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Dec 23, 2022

On the Importance of Learning Out Loud

go document your journey — This is a short post I wanted to make to encourage some friends or readers to embrace documenting their journey. Let’s get into it. This needs to be said: It’s okay to share your work, even if it’s not perfect. The benefit to you is that it helps you collect…

Document

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On the Importance of Learning Out Loud
On the Importance of Learning Out Loud
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Dec 18, 2022

Contributions to Open Source Projects in 2022

a short reflection on contributing to open source — I read Don Jones’ Own Your Tech Career book this year and one of his suggestions about being part of a technology community stuck with me. It was something along the lines of: “Don’t be a parasite. Find a way to contribute.” Originally, I had a mindset that I didn’t…

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Contributions to Open Source Projects in 2022
Contributions to Open Source Projects in 2022
Contribute

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Dec 15, 2022

How I learned web development

great resources to learn javascript — My main language of choice is R, but I’ve used simple CSS or JS to enhance a few Shiny apps in the past. That meant usually going through FreeCodeCamp and W3Schools tutorials or searching Stackoverflow when I have questions requiring it. I didn’t feel confident about my web development skills…

Learn

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How I learned basic web development
How I learned basic web development
Learn

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Oct 31, 2022

Spooky coding playlists

It’s Halloween! 🎃 I enjoy having some instrumental music playing while I code. I like to think it helps keep me calm and focused. Here are a few spooky music playlists on Spotify to listen to today. Lovecraft vibes Who’s Lovecraft, you might ask? Well, he’s only one of the best horror writers. We wouldn’t have Bloodborne (the video game) or Hellboy (the comic book series) if it wasn’t for his work.

Spooky

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Spooky coding playlists
Spooky coding playlists
Spooky

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Spooky coding playlists

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It’s Halloween! 🎃 I enjoy having some instrumental music playing while I code. I like to think it helps keep me calm and focused. Here are a few spooky music playlists on Spotify to listen to today.

Lovecraft vibes

Who’s Lovecraft, you might ask? Well, he’s only one of the best horror writers. We wouldn’t have Bloodborne (the video game) or Hellboy (the comic book series) if it wasn’t for his work.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0bmVJTxMMF3OUGc9lPBbmU

Keep it lofi

Like lofi hip hop radio but spooky.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3H8bXrMIOQgxGkSYFCjqgS

Only for the most serious

Let’s get metal.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4gJQtVR4clDSvY8Uui4UDU

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Oct 16, 2022

11 R packages I’ve enjoyed using in 2022

The year’s almost up. Close enough. Here are eleven R packages I’ve enjoyed using this year, in no special order: Automate repetitive tasks {searcher}— provides a search interface directly inside of R for Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Startpage, Ecosia, rseek, Twitter, StackOverflow, RStudio Community, GitHub, and BitBucket {usethis} — provides many useful functions to…

R Package

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R Package

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Oct 10, 2022

Contributing to {targetsketch}

a shiny app companion to the targets R package — Just realized I missed a blog post last month. 😲🤭 Here’s a short one on a project I’ve been working on for fun. {targetsketch} is a R/Shiny app companion to the targets R package. I found out about it in early September and decided to be a contributor in my…

Targetsketch

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Contributing to {targetsketch}
Contributing to {targetsketch}
Targetsketch

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Aug 29, 2022

Make your life easier — use keyboard shortcuts and the command palette

To my surprise, since I don’t think I do, I’ve been asked a few times how I code so fast. To be helpful, I’ve pointed to keyboard shortcuts as the reason. It’s more efficient to use them and I’m shocked by how many people don’t. Nowadays, to make things even…

Command Palette

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Make your life easier — use keyboard shortcuts and the command palette
Make your life easier — use keyboard shortcuts and the command palette
Command Palette

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Aug 14, 2022

Rendering R books to EPUB using Quarto

Here are the steps I followed to render the Quarto version of Hands on Programming with R into an EPUB for easy use with Apple Books (my reading app of choice). …

E Book

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Rendering R books to EPUB using Quarto
Rendering R books to EPUB using Quarto
E Book

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Aug 7, 2022

Switched over to Alfred from Spotlight

Last week I switched over to Alfred. I’ve used the native Spotlight on my Mac for years and I thought that it was good enough to get the job done. Basically, I didn’t feel the need to switch over before but then decided to experiment with some new project workflows…

Spotlight

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Switched over to Alfred from Spotlight
Switched over to Alfred from Spotlight
Spotlight

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Sam Parmar

Sam Parmar

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Data Scientist. Opinions are my own. https://github.com/parmsam

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