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Development, Games, and GNU
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Computational Complexity ☛ Computational Complexity: Guest Post on Why Coding Style is Important
Does coding style matter? We teach students how to write code and about algorithms. But, do we discuss coding style? Some people may say that style is just personal preference. But, there is undoubtedly good style and bad style, both for prose and for code. Following is a guest post by David Marcus that is a book review of a book that focuses on coding style.
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Hackaday ☛ The Case For Pascal, 55 Years On
The first version of Pascal was released by the prolific [Niklaus Wirth] back in 1970. That’s 55 years ago, an eternity in the world of computing. Does anyone still use Pascal in 2025? Quite a few people as it turns out, and [Huw Collingbourne] makes the case why you might want to be one of them in a video embedded below.
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Rlang ☛ Effective and useful feature engineering workshop
Join our workshop on Effective and useful feature engineering, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series!
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Rlang ☛ Do you need a custom R package or Shiny dashboard for your team?
Because of delays with my scholarship payment, if this post is useful to you I kindly ask a minimal donation on Buy Me a Coffee that shall be used to continue my Open Source efforts.
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Rlang ☛ Create reports and tutorials with generative Hey Hi (AI) from R
Create reports and tutorials with generative Hey Hi (AI) from R
Several Hey Hi (AI) model providers have integrated web search capabilities into their large language models. I was attempting to use these features via the R ellmer package.
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Rlang ☛ Tidy Tuesday – Frog Distributions in Time and Space
Graphical and Cartographic Distributions
I’m working my way into Tidy Tuesday, and I wanted to do something that combined both spatial and temporal data. The frogID dataset from week 35 of 2025 has both, so let’s take a look. -
Games
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Godot Engine ☛ Godot XR update - August 2025
Upcoming XR game jam, using the XR editor, new release channels and the new Render Models API
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GNU Projects
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FSF ☛ FSF Blogs: August GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali featuring eleven new GNU releases: Emacs, Mes, and more!
Eleven new GNU releases in the last month (as of August 31, 2025): [...]
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Amin Bandali: Free software activities in August 2025
Welcome to my first free software activities report, a monthly series in which I aim to summarize my activities in the free software projects and communities I participate in.
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FSF ☛ FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, September 5, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC)
Join the FSF and friends on Friday, September 5 from 12:00 to 15:00 EDT (16:00 to 19:00 UTC) to help improve the Free Software Directory.
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