Mara Averick

If you hate it, @Elijah_Meeks was agent in command… “Beyond the Tip: a data-driven exploration of Archer” buff.ly/2jkvHmO #dataviz

@rick_pack2 @posit_pbc Chugging along as funemployment summer comes to a close and I bunker down to the business of finding a new job! If nothing more, Toro is ready for me to have obligations that preclude my riding every day 😆

@dataandme @posit_pbc How are you doing over there @dataandme?

🫤 Unfortunately, I was affected by last week's layoffs at @posit_pbc along with a handful of other talented colleagues. 🖤 I’m bummed, but so grateful for the 5½+ yrs w/ my incredible team. 🔍 Taking some time to recoup, but will be on the hunt for new opportunities soon!

@SolomonKurz @ChelseaParlett If asked to give a virtual talk my entire rider consists of someone agreeing to have their camera on and nodding so I know I'm not speaking into the abyss.

@ChelseaParlett Also true in zoom lectures

god bless the students who make eye contact and nod during lecture

@EmilyRiederer I am extremely jealous! ❤️‍🩹

Feels so good to be re-convening with #rstats post-pandemic and post-Twitter-as-it-once-was

@roopikarisam Yeah, I took a solid, umm like 15 years off riding, but always knew I wanted to come back to it, and I cherish being an adult beginner. There's something about it that's humbling and rewarding in a way that feels precious and rare at this stage in my life. 🐎🖤

@dataandme I never got on a horse before a month ago, which is hilarious as I grew up right next to a stable!

Have already booked my next horseback riding lesson for the day after I’m back from vacation. Who am I? 🐴

@roopikarisam @Elijah_Meeks Nice!! Grew up riding at Pine Tree (I think in Ipswich), but, yeah, VT/NH much more 💸 friendly for boarding. (Boarding a horse in coastal MA is basically more than my mortgage in Montana)

@dataandme @Elijah_Meeks But for now I’m still in Salem and riding in West Newbury

@roopikarisam @Elijah_Meeks Cool! Yeah, honestly, I just love basically everything with them. Toro (short for Totoro) did NOT like our working equitation (mainly Western) clinic because he loathes standing still (literally the hardest thing in the world for this boy). We're very bad at dressage, but 🤷‍♀️

@dataandme @Elijah_Meeks Omg amazing. I have been riding an American Paint. Only Western because there is the slight detail that I actually have a balance disorder so I prefer the wider saddle. Although oddly unlike riding a bike I haven’t yet gotten weird balance disorder symptoms on the horse.

@roopikarisam @Elijah_Meeks PS I moved from Marblehead (right next to Salem State) and strongly considered Vermont, too, so you're already halfway there 😂

@dataandme @Elijah_Meeks From day one I have said, “I am not buying a horse.” My trainer keeps saying, “Yeah, that’s what your friend with the horse who brought you here said too.”

@roopikarisam @Elijah_Meeks He's an Andalusian Thoroughbred cross. He is a former Mexican Rodeo horse, which has been quite an entertaining experience training him to do dressage and a little cross-country. He's a character and a half.

@dataandme @Elijah_Meeks Is your horse a percheron?

@Elijah_Meeks @roopikarisam My sister and her family are visiting and I haven't been to the barn in four days, and am starting to suspect that the correlation between time spent with horses and the maintenance of the last vestiges of my sanity is even stronger than suspected.

@Elijah_Meeks @roopikarisam You 12 months from now... "Why'd you move to *insert location here*?" "Umm...definitely not because I wanted to live somewhere where I could afford to own a horse because that would just be absurd..."

@heyjayhuffman @biologistimo DO IT!!!

Putting this into the universe in hopes it gets to the right audience: we’re looking to buy a house in Missoula, Montana this fall! Let your friends know!

🟦 Trying to find your bird site friends on blue sky? @Luca@social.luca.run's Fedifinder's got you covered for that now, too! buff.ly/3IOksA5

@astroeringrand @posit_pbc Thanks, Erin 🖤

@dataandme @posit_pbc So sorry to hear this. Sending long distance hugs to you and everyone else laid off

@RobertAllison__ Anything that means living with the upside down “natural” track pad on a MBP would be sheer torture for me

@dataandme This is always why I always try to live with the defaults, rather than setting up a customized environment! :)

Tough day, but you know what they say: “Don't cry because it's over. Cry because your laptop is about to be factory reset, and despite saving all the dotfiles and configs, you just know that it's gonna take you forever to get your dev environment right.” 😭

@jdatap I would tell you, but now that my laptop thinks it’s a newborn, I’d have to look on GitHub from my phone 🫣

@dataandme Curious, I never got that, I've formatted my laptop Christ knows how many times, switched computers countless times, etc. I just have a .vimrc and .bashrc and I'm good to go. What dotfiles do you have? Am I not configuring anything? xd

@wmlandau @github Oh, whoops, eating my words, looks like it’s so cool that YOU figured out how to do this (would def be great if the feature was built into GH).

I used github.com/wlandau/dotfil… to enable temporary interaction limits and open informative issues. Would be great if @github UI had an easier built-in vacation mode. Developers need to pause sometimes, and unplugging should be effortless.

I am heading out on vacation soon, so I put 1-week temporary interaction limits on my most active GitHub repos. This will reduce backlog while I am gone and help me take a break. Thanks for understanding. I will return on July 10.

@wmlandau Have a great vacation, Will, and thanks for all the amazing work you do. Very cool to hear about this GH feature.

@malco_barrett @romain_francois For some reason, the email telling me I’ve been removed from the GitHub org made it feel really legit ☠️

@gshotwell Here’s hoping that’s the case for me! 🤞

@brodriguesco I’m not sure (it’s possible). For some reason, I literally remapped my command, control, and options keys on my Mac years ago, and now have to redo it every time I get a new one basically through trial and error. I know I should just stop, maybe I’ll do it this time.

@dataandme Are Rstudio keyboard shortcuts defined in a configuration file?