I vastly prefer writing and working with R to Python, but marimo is a really interesting tool and addresses the thing I’ve always disliked most about jupyter notebooks – the awful json file format that stores state in the document itself. Its browser-based editor feels pretty nimble and modern, too. I’ll explore it some more.
Over at the datablog, I wrote up some details on producing my 2024 workout summary from Peloton and Apple Health data. This was a fun little project to tinker through over my holiday break.
Last Peloton ride of 2024 went quite a bit harder than I was expecting. I’ll go out sweating hard because I can, and I’ll try to start 2025 the same way.
It must be winter vacation time, because I’m Screwing Around With My Roon Server Again.
We rewatched Severance s1 this week, ahead of the second season finally dropping next month. Remembering most of the twists let me watch the performances and art direction even more closely. What a banger show.
My wife got me a special Christmas gift: Espresso class at Anchorhead! This was so fun and educational for me. We started with a tasting exercise and then dug into the mechanics of espresso extraction, and I got to practice on the Big Kid Machine in the lab. I have lots to practice on my own (but not today; I am absolutely blitzed with caffeine). Gifts of neat experiences are the best!
Just a couple of coffee photos. This was a tasty cup.
I picked up Arco for myself to play this long winter’s holiday, and, wow is it good! Highly recommended.
I volunteered to do some copyediting of the web page for my kid’s school, and naturally the best way to do that was to spend a couple of hours learning how to use {rvest} and writing a short script to scrape the site into a set of Quarto files. I’m right on track to get started with the copyediting in early 2025, give or take.
