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@jeffreystrauss .@martinfowler has put together some useful information and ideas here: martinfowler.com/articles/explo… For me fosstodon.org looks like a good fit.

For all my friends considering looking at (or already on) #Mastadon, is there a particular instance that seems to be the go-to place for #DeveloperCommunity and #DevRel folks? I know next to zero about the platform. Learning... 🐘

@AndreaJPhillips Try moving the `fill =` outside of as.factor.

#RStats: Any ideas? "Strict" has two distinct values: 4 states have a value of "1," the rest "2." Can't figure out why I can't get the colors to show up. This is code I have used before (with a different data set).

Reminder: Mailed absentee ballots must be received by your county auditor by Nov. 8 at 8 p.m. to be counted. Postmarks no longer count.

@CSchmert mstdn.social & mastodon.social are two different instances.

Layoffs are a fact of life - this isn’t the only one today and it’s far from the first at Twitter. But it’s the inhumanity of this one that strikes such a chord.

Very strong opening to a math video. Ok, you have my attention.

This piece by @AndyKroll helped me be a little less bewildered by our current politics. The Rise of the Republican Apostate nytimes.com/2022/10/31/opi…

Mailed your completed absentee ballot back to your county auditor? Check to ensure it was received by your county auditor sos.iowa.gov/elections/abse… Mailed ballots must be received by November 8, 2022 at 8 PM to be counted. Postmarks and intelligent mail no longer count.

RIP to Professor Kathleen Booth, inventor of assembly language and author of the 1958 book, Programming for an Automatic Digital Calculator, which may have been the first programming book written by a woman. @lproven theregister.com/2022/10/29/kat…

Just want to underscore @donwinslow’s good point: Progressives and moderates abandoning @Twitter prematurely does nothing to improve the political conversation. Maybe the time for doing so will come. It’s not now. Important to know a lot more about where this is all going.

If you are curious how to build the Pumpkin with the plot library, Alex has provided a step-by-step guide: alex-hhh.github.io/2022/10/pumpki…

I voted today! Iowa voters find out how you can too: voterready.iowa.gov

Frustrated With Polling? Pollsters Are, Too nytimes.com/interactive/20…

The U.S. Just Lost 26 Years’ Worth of Progress on Life Expectancy #COVID19 and overdose deaths have sharply cut U.S. life expectancy scientificamerican.com/article/the-u-… U.S. Just Lost 26 Years' Worth of Progress on Life Expectancy via @sciam

Good luck to everyone running the Des Moines Marathon, Half Marathon, and related races today!

Here is an educational implementation of git (init, add, rm, status, commit, log) in 503 lines of Python. wyag.thb.lt via @b0rk

This Python data validation library (pandera) looks like it could be useful for some data processing pipelines. pandera.readthedocs.io/en/stable/inde…