Computational thinking – Ven Popov

Reduce friction for creating Quarto blog posts

I teach myself how to code simple shell scripts to automate some annoying tasks

workflow

shell

2024

My relationship with blogging is complicated. I made my first blog about 15 years ago, fresh out of high school. WordPress was the dominant platform at the time, and my blog wasn’t anything particularly interesting - I shared some vapid attempts at poetry and short story writing, some travel logs…

Rethinking my approach to computational projects and reproducibility

There has to be a better way

workflow

reproducibility

R

git

targets

project management

2024

I have to finally admit it to myself - my research workflows have been breaking down and it’s time to get serious about change. I’ve been trying to incorporate better coding practices, modern reporting pipelines, and reproducible workflows into my research projects, but it’s been a struggle. The…

Taking a stand on open peer review

I will no longer review for journals that do not publish reviews alongside the work

academic publishing

peer review

open science

2024

I have spent the last few months thinking about academic publishing and the peer review system. The whole thing is rotten and no sane person would design the system we have today. Now that I find myself in a professional position where I don’t have to worry about my future, I realize I can take…

Introducing the Bayesian Measurement Modeling R Package (bmm)

Making Bayesian measurement modeling in psychology accessible, reliable & efficient

R

modeling

bayesian

R package

2024

I am excited to announce the first official release of the Bayesian Measurement Modeling R package! bmm makes Bayesian measurement modeling in psychology accessible to all. Over the past two years, Gidon Frischkorn and I worked closely together on this package and we are thrilled to finally share…

Locally Ignoring Git Files Without Affecting Others’ .gitignore

How to exclude files from version control without affecting other developers’ .gitignore configuration

git

GitHub

reproducibility

workflow

collaboration

2024

I often collaborate on git projects and I find that I want to have a folder or some files stored locally in the repo but that I don’t want to be tracked by git. Obviously I could add them to .gitignore, but then I have two options:

Working with multiple versions of an R package

After being dissatisfied with existing solutions, I wrote a package to do that

R

reproducibility

package management

R package

2024

Have you ever wanted to test whether your code works with multiple versions of an R package? Or compare how the behavior of certain functions has changed? There are several ways to do that, each involving a lot of setup.