- As someone who used Linux exclusively for years, and now has to use Windows mainly for work, I am interested in any possible “best of both worlds” solution. Windows Subsystem for Linux (now on version 2) allows you to install one of several versions of Linux alongside Windows. I previously looked at WS1 and was a bit disappointed. I played around with WSL2 this afternoon and it seems to have a lot more potential. It would still be easier to use Linux alone, but WSL2 could be a really useful adjunct for analytical or development work. You can use the Linux command line from RStudio, or run RStudio from Linux. I even managed to get Podman containers working after a bit of experimentation.
- Started to see what you can do with Observables in Quarto earlier this week - not sure how much use it is going to be for me, and it seemed like a lot of work to get a simple bar chart, but it seems to be very capable in the right hands - see the tadpoles example (are they really tadpoles?)
- In spare moments I have been copying over notes from other places where I have been keeping notes. Most of it is already Markdown and easy to move over, but I also have extensive Vim Outliner notes from a previous period, and also even some Evernote stuff from way back, which I will need to sort out at some point. I am tagging it all stuff for the moment; bits of code are tagged snippet. So this is partly blog, partly wiki and partly digital garden at the moment.
- See the Reading page for what I’m currently reading.