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Karolis Koncevičius
Personal blog · karolis.koncevicius.lt/posts · on HN as kkonceviciusprogrammingproductivity
Karolis Koncevičius's personal blog at karolis.koncevicius.lt covers programming and productivity. Since 2019, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 47 times, most often “Porn, Zen, and .vimrc”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this personal blog for its writing about R and simplifying things, and for base R plotting. One commenter points to it as the place to read about base R plot() as an alternative to ggplot2.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Porn, Zen, and .vimrc5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-05-03
- R base plotting without wrappers3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-04-11
- Using redo to manage R data analysis workflow3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-09-27
- Improving GitHub Issue Labels3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-06-13
- On fast navigation in the command line2 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-05-25
- Bookmarks on the Command Line2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-22
- Cleaning $HOME on macOS2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-09-16
What Hacker News says?
http://karolis.koncevicius.lt/ Read it if you want to read something about R and simplifying things. You can also refresh the front page for some random quotes. It's quite new and doesn't have a lot of posts yet.
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on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted Porn, Zen, and .vimrc as a story · 204 points
HN discussionInteresting, let me share two screenshots of what I see: 1. http://karolis.koncevicius.lt/data/google_example1.png 2. http://karolis.koncevicius.lt/data/google_example2.png
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on “Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser”Submitted A half-hour to learn R as a story · 24 points
HN discussionI work with R and not python, so some things might not apply, but this: > [...] it fixes the problem at the time, then it gets thrown away with the notebook only to be written again soon. Is one of the reasons I stopped using notebooks. One solution to your problem might be to create a simple executable script that, when called on the file of your dataset in a shell, would produce the visualisation you need. If it's…
Comment linking /posts/using_redo_to_manage_r_data_analysis_workflow/
on “Fastplotlib: GPU-accelerated, fast, and interactive plotting library”Submitted On fast navigation in the command line as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHere is one additional bookmark solution [1]: export CDPATH=.:~/.marks/ function mark { ln -sr "$(pwd)" ~/.marks/"$1" } mark @name # create a bookmark cd @name # jump to bookmark cd @<tab> # list bookmarks cd @n<tab> # auto-complete cd @name/<tab> # can access sub-directories within bookmarks Works best when bookmarks are prefixed by "@" or other special symbol. Additional advantage is that you can use the same func…
Comment linking /posts/fast_navigation_in_the_command_line/
on “How to navigate directories faster with Bash (2015)”Submitted Cleaning $HOME on macOS as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI don't want to say that the Tidyverse is inferior, because it's not and it works for a lot of people. Hadley will also know much more about R and always be a better programmer than me. However, there are other tools which predate Tidyverse, which I think so a stellar job at their core competency. ggplot2 is great, but it was also around long before the Tidyverse concept. But at the same time base R plot() can also…
Comment linking /posts/r_base_plotting_without_wrappers/
on “R 4.0”Submitted On fast navigation in the command line as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttp://karolis.koncevicius.lt/
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on “Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)”Submitted Cleaning $Home Directories on macOS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm really pleased to see you're using Pander[1] in your tool chain. I think this is one of the most useful literate programming tools in the R ecosystem. Although, having read Part 6 (briefly), it looks like you might only be using it for tables and plots. I think Pander's literate programming functionality, in conjunction with Brew, is worth further exploration[2]. Also, if you're using R-base plots, there's an ex…
Comment linking /posts/r_base_plotting_without_wrappers/
on ““Typesetting Markdown” blog post series by a technical writer”Submitted Fast Folder Navigation in Command Line – Coming Full Circle as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThank you for sharing. Even thou I have a lot fewer projects and majority of my work happens on the projects of clients - I managed to take away some useful ideas and tips. Specifically using "issue" as a place where everything gets tied together and combining all aspects of a feature into a single main-branch commit is something I will try to do more from now on. Since your workflow is so GitHub centered, one place…
Comment linking /posts/improving_github_issue_labels/index.html
on “My process for building a feature”Submitted Using redo to manage R data analysis workflow as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBase R plot() can also be pretty powerful[1] and look great.[2] As an alternative to ggplot2 I would also propose that Vega Lite[3] could be a contender, with an excellent cross language ecosystem. [1] http://karolis.koncevicius.lt/posts/r_base_plotting_without_... [2] https://github.com/KKPMW/basetheme [3] https://vegawidget.github.io/vlbuildr/
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on “Lets-plot: An interactive Python plotting library using ggplot's API”Submitted Fast navigation in terminal: coming full circle as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHere it is: http://karolis.koncevicius.lt/data/old_reddit.png
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on “Aliens in the valley: The complete and chaotic history of Reddit (2014)”Submitted Porn, Zen, and .vimrc as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBad: - Inability to set up your /home/ (which is /Users/ on a mac) the way you like it. There are default folders for Documents, Pictures, Music, etc and they cannot be deleted. If you delete them they are recreated either immediately or on reboot. My hack-of-a-solution was to alias ls to hide them [1]. - Just like with folders, there are also applications that you cannot delete. One such application is Chess - a pr…
Comment linking /posts/cleaning_home_on_macos/index.html
on “Linux vs. Mac”Submitted Porn, Zen, and .vimrc as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI like minimal things that work well without adding complexity. This is more in the "hack" category, but here is a solution for bookmarking directories[1] that I am quite fond of: export CDPATH=.:~/.marks/ function mark { ln -sr "$(pwd)" ~/.marks/"$1" } Then: mark @name # add bookmark called @name for the current directory cd @name # jump to the bookmarked location cd @<tab> # list all available bookmarks It can lis…
Comment linking /posts/fast_navigation_in_the_command_line/
on “Ask HN: Small scripts, hacks and automations you're proud of?”Submitted Improving Default GitHub Issue Labels as a story · 2 points
HN discussionInteresting, I am using a similar convention, but for GitHub issue labels, not commit messages [1]. Then, the commit messages often just refer to the issue number as a reference. [1]: http://karolis.koncevicius.lt/posts/improving_github_issue_l...
Comment linking /posts/improving_github_issue_labels/
on “Conventional Commits: Spec for adding human and machine meaning to commit msgs”Submitted Fast Navigation in the Command Line as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted R base plotting without wrappers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using redo to manage R data analysis workflow as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using redo to manage data analysis workflow as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cleaning $Home on macOS as a story · 2 points
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