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New #RStats blog post

ggplot2 4.0.0 is coming and why ultimately it’s on 🫵YOU🫵 to ensure your environments are reproducible

https://brodrigues.co/posts/2025-06-21-ggplot4.html

Every time I lock my bike to a wall loop I fear a topologist will appear and prove my bike is not attached to the loop, or in fact, not even locked

#cycling

Find why your devShell, package, etc depends on something interactively!

`nix-tree --derivation .#devShells.x86_64-linux.default`

https://github.com/utdemir/nix-tree

#Nix #NixFlakes #NixOS

GitHub - utdemir/nix-tree: Interactively browse dependency graphs of Nix derivations.

Interactively browse dependency graphs of Nix derivations. - utdemir/nix-tree

GitHub
You Can Choose Tools That Make You Happy

Stop falsifying your motivations.

Fernando Borretti

Ziglang is based!
Writing Issues using LLMs results in ban

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Writing-Issues-with-Copilot-and-Other-LLMs

#zig

Writing Issues with Copilot and Other LLMs

General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software. - ziglang/zig

GitHub

library(tidyverse)
hist(penguins$body_mass_g)

#rstats #ggplot2

me: I need a dev env I can deploy anywhere
Nix: yes
me: I need many different tools for my projects
Nix: gotcha
me: my data analysis pipeline must run reliably
Nix: sure
me: I’d also need a tool to configure my entire OS declaratively
Nix: buddy, you’re not gonna believe this
It is all #rstats fun and giggles until the dataset is too big to fit in memory. Then, it is time for the database servers and #SQL to save the day.

March 2025 in Reproducible Builds

* Debian bookworm live images now fully reproducible from their binary packages
* "How NixOS and reproducible builds could have detected the xz backdoor"
* LWN: Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility
* Python adopts PEP for specifying package dependencies
* OSS Rebuild real-time validation and tooling improvements
* SimpleX Chat server now reproducible
* 3 new papers
* "Supply Chain Attacks on Linux distributions"

https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2025-03/

Reproducible Builds in March 2025 — reproducible-builds.org

I have been waiting for this book for 28 years (see the first version of https://third-bit.com/ideas/not-on-the-shelves/) - thank you @TartanLlama
The Third Bit: Not on the Shelves