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2025
Adventures In Scaling Shiny: Lessons Learned Building DynastyProcess
·1 min
talks
r-in-production
shiny
videos
r
A talk given at Shiny in Production 2024 about DynastyProcess and all the things it has taught me about scaling apps in production.
2024
Reflections on 2024
·3 mins
reflections
Stopping to think about the year that was.
DSLC Slack: Debugging Netlify Deploys
·2 mins
dslc-slack
q-a
r-in-production
r
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
The Beginner Data Science Programming Book That Doesn't Exist (Yet?)
·5 mins
free-ideas
learning-programming
r
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.
Things I Think You Should Read and Watch
·6 mins
reading
life-in-tech
learning-programming
career-advice
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.
2023
Reflections on 2023
·6 mins
reflections
A year of travelling, grind, growth, and loneliness.
tidyr pivot trick: names_to -> .value
·7 mins
r
r-tips
A tidyr tip for extracting data from column names that I’ve used and shared a
lot, now transcribed from Twitter
Effective Logging Strategies
·1 min
talks
r-in-production
shiny
videos
r
A talk given at Jumping Rivers’ Shiny in Production 2023 conference on effective
logging strategies for R and Shiny.
Debugging Shiny Apps
·1 min
talks
shiny
r-in-production
videos
r
A talk given virtually at Shiny Conf 2023 on some effective patterns for
debugging Shiny apps
2022
Reflections on 2022
·3 mins
reflections
A year of breakthroughs, travelling, and trading off priorities.