They both are beautiful and impressive artworks.

Personally, your latest render evokes a sense of warm cleanness. I take it as a sort of illumination of a dark but hopeful place.

Your earlier render feels more outdoorsy (but not necessarily more organic, if that makes any sense). It conveys to me more a spirit of perseverance in contrast to the first one.

That is to say, while everyone may have their own opinions, both pieces of art to me, are incredibly complex works, and you’re clearly insanely talented, so you make it hard to have a preference!

Your latest work does seem to have an incredible amount of meticulous work and effort put into the lighting, and this one seems to focus more on the background, but either way, they are stunning!!

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I’ve done a bit more searching and it seems ltex-lsp-plus is the best out there for lsp grammar checking. It’s 1000x better than nothing, though the false negative rate is a bit high for my taste :)

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I’m not sure what kind of diagram you’re after, but Typst has Cetz which is graphing + arbitrary drawing of shapes, paths, splines, etc.

Typst also has fletcher “maker of arrows” for diagrams which is my personal fave for the work I do

https://typst.app/universe/package/fletcher/

Word definitely has its niche.

However, I find for many of my tasks, LaTeX or Typst just make sense. I don’t need to worry about out of date figures. I can customize styling instantly. I can track my changes with Git. Grammar checking is rough tho. lsp-like grammar checking would revolutionize my world lol.

I can personally attest that I transitioned to LaTeX from Word, when Word wouldn’t handle equations correctly, or would crash when I had too many. It doesn’t matter if I can put out 50 word equations faster than LaTeX if I’m breaking my flow state to restart my editor.

They overlap in their ecosystem niches but in no way is one a complete replacement for the other. LaTeX has a larger niche than Word which makes it a really safe default.

“Nobody ever got fired for choosing React”

data.table is so cool! I was shocked to realize it has no dependencies (outside of base), very elegant and very fast for sure.

tidyverse is more than a pandas analogue. It’s more like Pandas (and a little more sugar) + Expression + Altair (or matplotlib) and a few others less used. It’s very beautiful. It aligns well with R and is quite functional stylistically and is usually pretty clean syntactically.

The books are really good, but the docs(tidyverse and R) are kinda poor compared to Python (and Rs documentation tools are very limited — PDFs mostly). R package management is much worse than Python’s.

It’s certainly powerful, it’s certainly elegant, and Wickham is an incredible technical writer.

There’s lots of really incredible research done in the R ecosystem.

Caution: Lots of docs are affiliated with Posit, including Wickham’s. Posit wants to sell their cloud offerings. This often leads to over-optimism in documentation.

The language is definitely capable of serious work, and is pretty good at dataviz, psych, and gis.

I highly recommend giving it a try, if you like functional programming or want to see some cool data science ideas and statistics research.

Yep, my block list is long. It’s updated occasionally. I call it “weeding the digital garden”. Negatively sprouts everywhere and it’s imperative to cull it asap.

The way I see it there’s far too many things in the digital world to care about, so I just care about basically none of them. I’d rather spend energy loving the people I love than being angry at what I see on the internet.

The internet is full of slacktivism and I find it’s more worthwhile to do something good rather than critiquing the bad and doing nothing.

My way is simple and stupid. I hit F12, then search for “rss” in the html and copy the link

If you’re on iOS, feeeed is kinda slick :)

Yeah, I can’t argue with that, it’s a shame :(

All the more reason to subscribe to independently owned ones if they’re available to keep them afloat :)

No specific recommendations, but I highly recommend following your local news orgs assuming you don’t live in a news desert.

The goal of big news companies is to get clicks for that delicious ad revenue and they don’t care about how predatory that is towards you.

Local news is much more community focused in my experience