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Programming Leftovers
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Rlang ☛ July 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages
Three hundred fifty-three new packages were submitted to CRAN in July.
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Vicki Boykis ☛ Bad code is kudzu
Kudzu is a plant that was once introduced from East Asia to the eastern United States as a way to combat soil erosion.
But, kudzu, once introduced, grows aggressively and can overtake sidewalks, houses, foundations, and even trees.
The only way to kill kudzu is to prune it aggressively, as a concentrated strategy enacted together by all the people who live near where the kudzu grows.
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Seth Godin ☛ Ten steps on the road to efficient
Frederick Taylor taught Henry Ford how to do mass production. Deming brought quality, systems understanding and respect for the worker. And operations research brought insight.
If you have a repeated production process, the method for improving it is almost always the same, regardless of what you and your team produce: [...]
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Python
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Rlang ☛ Skip the R/Python runtime: fast tabular dashboards with Observable Framework
Shiny and Streamlit dashboards depend on a live R or Python process, which makes vanilla deployments slow to load. -
James Bennett ☛ Boring Python: dependency management
This is the first in hopefully a series of posts I intend to write about how to build/manage/deploy/etc. Python applications in as boring a way as possible.
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Hugo van Kemenade ☛ Help test Python 3.15!
The second and final Python 3.15 release candidate is out! 🎉
It’s your last chance to join the cool testers’ club and say that YOU helped test 3.15 before the big day on 1st October! 😎
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Rust
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Rust Blog ☛ The Rust Programming Language Blog: Announcing rustup 1.29.1
The rustup team is happy to announce the release of rustup version 1.29.1.
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Standards/Consortia
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Jason Santa Maria ☛ CSS is Still Awesome
And the real crazy part is that my bad decades-old code still renders fine in today’s latest web browsers! I would be sad if it didn’t, but I also wouldn’t be surprised. How is this stuff still backwards compatible!?
How much of your software from 20 years ago runs on your devices today? I realize CSS is actually “software”, but it is a kind of user interface for making stuff. Most things in tech get worse as time goes on, filled with upsells and ads, or sparkle icons to try out some rad new agent surreptitiously shoved into an app. CSS gets better with age and as more features are added. That’s bananas!
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