mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06🧰 #Rstats / research software engineer.
🗒️ Blogger.
📦 Software review editor for @ropensci@fosstodon.org.
💜 #RLadies.
📈 PhD in statistics.
🍋 Nancy, France (let's say this emoji is a bergamot orange).
Because *I* tend to confuse them...
👽 Mutation testing: you run tests on mutated version of the *code*. E.g. https://events.digital-research.academy/event/109/contributions/483/
🚮 Fuzzy testing: you run tests with all sorts of *inputs* to the code. E.g. https://events.digital-research.academy/event/109/contributions/430/
New post! Better Git diff with difftastic by @wilfredh@mastodon.social
A diffing tool that understands syntax and can
- ignore formatting changes
- match delimiters in wrappers
- ...
I 💚 this especially the first one: "The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code" by Ally Piechowski
https://piechowski.io/post/git-commands-before-reading-code/
En las ultimas semanas, @yabellini@rstats.me y yo enseñamos varias sesiones de capacitación para campeones de @rOpenSci@hachyderm.io de la nueva cohorte.
Los materiales están abiertos. 💝
💄 ¡Código hermoso, porque lo valemos!
🧰 Desarrollo de paquetes para principiantes
💩 ¡Miércoles, Git!
📜 Usar y mejorar tu historial de Git
🧰✨ Desarrollo de paquetes avanzado
Yesterday I got to present what I painstakingly learnt about
✨ extending roxygen2 ✨
New #RStats post on the cynkra blog with @schochastics@fosstodon.org & @kirill@fosstodon.org
"Three small dots for more readable code"
Did "Writing R Extensions" go to a beauty salon?!
Did you know that you can specify a pathspec when using Git bisect, if you know what file/folder is responsible for the bug you are chasing?
(Someone asked this during my Git tutorial at uRos)
"Oops, Git! How to recover from common mistakes" 🙈
Come learn some Git with me and {saperlipopette} at Workshops for Ukraine!
Thursday, March 19th, 14:00 - 16:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)
https://sites.google.com/view/dariia-mykhailyshyna/main/r-workshops-for-ukraine#h.r3evto8phau7
Organized by Dariia Mykhailyshyna 🙏
En quoi travailler dans #RStats et vivre à Nancy, c'est pareil et super ?
Découvrez-le dans les diapos de ma présentation plénière aux Rencontres R hier !
https://masalmon.eu/talks/2026-06-18-ecosysteme/
(Merci Lise Vaudor pour la photo !)
"A Gentle Introduction to Open Science"
I love this post by @steffilazerte@fosstodon.org on @rOpenSci@hachyderm.io. Gentle indeed, and pragmatic.
I taught "Oops, Git! How to recover from common mistakes" today at Workshops for Ukraine. 🇺🇦
I learnt a lot from participants' questions! GitLens in Positron is even better than I had realized.
Thank you Dariia Mykhailyshyna for organizing. 🙏
Materials (you can still purchase the recording by donating): https://masalmon.eu/talks/2026-03-19-oops-git/
If you enjoy the coalesce operator %||%, did you know that you can enforce it through
- Jarl https://jarl.etiennebacher.com/rules/coalesce
- {lintr} https://lintr.r-lib.org/reference/coalesce_linter.html
(For older R versions you could use the same operator from {rlang})
I wonder whether all posts like https://alexhwoods.com/dont-let-ai-write-for-you/ are written by people who love writing (I do!). 🤔
