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Some reflections on setting up a dry-aging fridge at home and experimenting with my first 45-day aging.

A curated, non-exhaustive list of tech content I’ve really enjoyed and shared with friends and colleagues. Includes thoughts on life as a programmer, technical leadership, career advice, technical topics, and more. Updated periodically.

A casual Q&A with Libby Heeren on all things R in production

A quick example of reading through automated deploy logs, finding the relevant errors, and triaging a fix - transcribed from the DSLC Slack Community help channels

Free idea: the beginner book that doesn’t exist yet (but should) is one that introduces programming via language-agnostic, domain-specific case studies that complement existing resources on learning programming.

A talk given at Shiny in Production 2024 about DynastyProcess and all the things it has taught me about scaling apps in production.

A tidyr tip for extracting data from column names that I’ve used and shared a lot, now transcribed from Twitter

A talk given at Jumping Rivers’ Shiny in Production 2023 conference on effective logging strategies for R and Shiny.

A talk given virtually at Shiny Conf 2023 on some effective patterns for debugging Shiny apps

A talk on improving your R projects by leveraging GitHub for package hosting, automated compute (via Actions), and free data storage (via piggyback + Releases)