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Scott
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Python, Ruby, R
Software dev @ Fred Hutch Cancer Center Data Science Lab https://ocdo.fredhutch.org
Also at https://hachyderm.io/@sckottie
web: https://scottchamberlain.info
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morloc-project.bsky.social
The new #morloc getter and setter patterns are the most radical of the new changes in v0.57.1. They offer a succinct syntax for generating functions that access or update data. They replace the many little helper functions #morloc previously required. Here are a few examples:
November 13, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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morloc-project.bsky.social
*multi-line strings* allow triple-quotes to enclose strings that span multiple lines and automatically trims whitespace. See example below where the trimmed whitespace is highlighted:
An image of code showing a multi-line string and describing the rules used to trim whitespace: 1. If the first character in the string is a newline, it will be removed 2. If the final character in the string is a newline, it will be removed 3. An equal number of leading whitespace characters is removed from each line such that the line with the fewest leading whitespace characters is flush left.
November 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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morloc-project.bsky.social
*string interpolation* allows #morloc expressions to be substituted into strings. Currently the behavior is quite minimal and works only for expressions that evaluate to strings. In the future more formatting options will be added.
The expression `hellowWorld x = "Hello #{x}"`, which shows how morloc expressions can be substituted into string expressions.
November 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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morloc-project.bsky.social
*placeholder syntax* allows expressions with underscores to be translated into lambas expression. For example:
Show the expression `map (sub _ 1) [1,2,3]` which produces [0,1,2] and the expression `map (_,42) [1,2,3]` which generates the list of tuples [(1,42),(2,42),(3,42)].
November 13, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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morloc-project.bsky.social
Releasing Morloc version 0.57.1! There are 5 major new features: placeholder syntax, string interpolation, multi-line strings, and getter and setter patterns. I'll introduce all of each of these in dedicated posts.
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
sckott.bsky.social
#rstats 🤷🏼 changelog.fm/665#t=53:40
The world of open source metadata with Andrew Nesbitt from ecosyste.ms (Changelog Interviews #665)
Andrew Nesbitt builds tools and open datasets to support, sustain, and secure critical digital infrastructure. He's been exploring the world of open source metadata for over a decade. First with libra...
changelog.fm
November 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
sckott.bsky.social
[blog] writing to linked tables in a transaction recology.info/2025/10/data...
Writing to linked tables in a transaction
I recently had a use case at work (a LiteStar app) where I needed to write to two linked tables (see below) in a transaction in our PostgreSQL database. In the models for the two tables was included a...
recology.info
October 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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steveklabnik.com
About to give this talk now! (Lots of context that’s going to be said and not written down anywhere so you can find the source of this in the rue repo but it’s not being recorded so.)
A screen showing my title slide, “rue and the beauty of compilers”
October 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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oregonian.com
Oriana Korol, a clarinetist with the Unpresidented Brass Band, was arrested after a man and federal agents barreled into band members who were standing across the street from the ICE office and playing the theme from “Ghostbusters.”

Read more: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
October 16, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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joss-openjournals.bsky.social
Just published in JOSS: 'forcis: An R package for accessing, handling and analysing the FORCIS database' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.09217
October 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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oregonian.com
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
October 10, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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yellowduck.be
🐥 Why using uv run --frozen matters in production

#devops #python #terminal #tools
Why using uv run --frozen matters in production
#devops #python #terminal #tools
www.yellowduck.be
October 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
sckott.bsky.social
vite doc on now www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmWQ...
October 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
sckott.bsky.social
Notes on FastAPI, LiteStar and HTMX
recology.info/2025/10/fast... #python #htmx #litestar #fastapi
Notes on FastAPI, LiteStar and HTMX
I recently wrote about Picking a web framework for a project at work. We’re moving from an R Shiny app to something else. We weren’t sure what that something else should be so I rebuilt the app (in pa...
recology.info
October 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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hugovk.dev
Just released! 🚀

Please install and enjoy Python 3.14! 🥧

discuss.python.org/t/python-3-1...

#Python #Python314 #release
Two snakes enjoying a pie with 3.14 on the top and π crimping.
October 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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archive.org
Join web pioneers Sir Tim Berners-Lee & Brewster Kahle in conversation about building and preserving the internet.

📅 Thurs, Oct 9 @ 7:30 PM PT
🎟️ IN-PERSON & VIRTUAL
Details ➡️ blog.archive.org/event/buildi...
Headshots of Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Brewster Kahle.
September 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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hrbrmstr.dev
Maine's governator makes COVID-19 💉 available to anyone.

"At Governor Mills' Direction, Maine CDC Issues Standing Order Expanding Access to COVID-19 Vaccine Amid Federal Roadblocks"

content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MEG...

💪 MAINE!
September 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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karawoo.com
I've given several talks at posit conf, but I've never gotten to give the "here's the super awesome new thing I worked on that I now get to share with you" kind...until this year! Come to the commercial products session to hear me talk about building container images with Connect, it is so coooool 😁
September 5, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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steveklabnik.com
Hey Austin, CVS has new Covid vaccines. Go get ‘em
September 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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mitsuhiko.at
Premiere of the Python documentary in 15 minutes. Hanging out in the premiere chat :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4...
Python: The Documentary | An origin story
YouTube video by CultRepo (formerly Honeypot)
www.youtube.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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longreads.com
In our Weekly Top 5:

* The legend of the levee boss @theamscho.bsky.social
* Identity in the age of AI @harpers.bsky.social
* The rules of Rave Club @thefence.bsky.social
* Studying philosophy in prison @aeon.co
* French fry why @torontolifemag.bsky.social

longreads.com/2025/08/22/t...
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week - Longreads
Showcasing stories from Eric McHenry, Michael W. Clune, Patrick Galbraith, Jay Miller, and Harley Rustad.
longreads.com
August 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Some incredibly good news:

One year ago this week, The Onion returned to print.

In that one year, we’ve grown to the 13th largest print newspaper in the United States, just ahead of the Boston Globe, and growing fast.

In short, it’s working.

So… thank you. Thank you for helping save this thing.
Exclusive | The Onion Brought Back Its Print Edition. The Gamble Is Paying Off.
Publications turn to the old-style products to appeal to nostalgic readers and stand out in a crowded digital-media landscape.
www.wsj.com
August 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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brandonfriedman.bsky.social
On Cracker Barrel, it's amusing how conservatives seem to believe they're attacking woke liberals. The people they're most likely to hurt by damaging the company are its employees — who are generally residents of red states. In fact, 84% of Cracker Barrels are located in red states. I counted.
Map of Cracker Barrel locations in every state 2024 electoral map
August 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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frodsan.bsky.social
I've added a few new features to {grateful}, the package that facilitates citation of #rstats packages, and I'd love feedback before submitting to CRAN 🧵
grateful: Facilitate citation of R packages The goal of grateful is to make it very easy to cite R and the R packages used in any analyses, so that package authors receive their deserved credit. By calling a single function, grateful will scan the project for R packages used and generate a BibTeX file containing all citations for those packages. grateful can then generate a new document with citations in the desired output format (Word, PDF, LaTeX, HTML, Markdown). These references can be formatted for a specific journal, so that we can just paste them directly into our manuscript or report. Alternatively, we can use grateful directly within an Rmarkdown or Quarto document. In this case, a paragraph containing in-text citations of all used R packages will (optionally) be inserted into the Rmarkdown/Quarto document, and these packages will be included in the reference list when rendering.
August 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM