Programming Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 04, 2024

• The New Stack ☛ Etckeeper: Back Your/etc/Files to Git for Safekeeping

  In Linux, the /etc directory is of critical importance because it houses your system configuration files, such as hosts, crontabs,

• MaskRay ☛ Tinkering with Neovim

  After migrating from Vim to Emacs as my primary C++ editor in 2015, I switched from Vim to Neovim for miscellaneous non-C++ tasks as it is more convenient in a terminal. Customizing the editor with a language you are comfortable with is important. I found myself increasingly drawn to Neovim's terminal-based simplicity for various non-C++ tasks. Recently, I've refined my Neovim setup to the point where I can confidently migrate my entire C++ workflow away from Emacs. This post explores the key improvements I've made to achieve this seamless transition.

• Databases

  • Robert Haas ☛ Robert Haas: Why pg_dump Is Amazing

    I wrote a blog post a couple of weeks ago entitled Is pg_dump a Backup Tool?. In that post, I argued in the affirmative, but also said that it's probably shouldn't be your primary backup mechanism. For that, you probably shouldn't directly use anything that is included in PostgreSQL itself, but rather a well-maintained third-party backup tool such as barman or pgbackrest. But today, I want to talk a little more about why I believe that pg_dump is both amazingly useful for solving all kinds of PostgreSQL-related problems and also just a great piece of technology.

• R

  • Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk Eddelbuettel: Rcpp 1.0.13-1 on CRAN: Hot Fix

    A hot-fix release 1.0.13-1, consisting of two small PRs relative to the last regular CRAN release 1.0.13, just arrived on CRAN. When we prepared 1.0.13, we included a change related to the ‘tightening’ of the C API of R itself. Sadly, we pinned an expected change to ‘comes with next (minor) release 4.4.2’ rather than now ‘next (normal aka major) release 4.5.0’.

  • Rlang ☛ Free Data and Hey Hi (AI) Courses with 365 Data Science—Unlimited Access until Nov 21

    365 Data Science opens its doors this November! From November 1 to November 2, 2024 (8 a.m. UTC), enjoy unrestricted access to its entire platform, including a selection of R programming courses and projects. This offer includes expert-led courses, hands-on projects, and interactive exercises on various data science and Hey Hi (AI) topics.

  • Rlang ☛ the polls weren’t wrong [book review]

    While Nate Silver and his colleagues (as The New York Times Nate Cohn) have brought (part of) the general public to adopt a (more) scientific perspective on political polls, the way to combine them, and the need to keep uncertainty fully quantified...