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Sun 17 September 2017

Ughhhh, Computer Shopping

Posted by Marianna Foos in Computing   

I was a lifelong Windows user until 2010 when I was impressed by Ubuntu on my Dell Mini 9. Remember netbooks? They were like crappy, expensive, bulky Chromebooks, but they were ahead of their time introducing mainstream users to Ubuntu. When the laptop I bought when I left for college …

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Wed 09 August 2017

How I Do Shiny

Posted by Marianna Foos in Computing   

I've had a handful of conversations recently with people learning Shiny who all agree that despite the many available tutorials and examples, sometimes it's hard to figure out how to do what YOU want to do. I think this is exemplified by how long it took me to figure out …

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Sun 18 September 2016

Hello, world!

Posted by Marianna Foos in Computing   

It's been on my list of "haunting tasks" (this is a real list I keep) to "make a Jekyll blog on Github pages". However, my experience with Jekyll was: jargon jargon jargon, gem install. Since I try not to type mysterious things into my terminal, I googled around, and eventually …

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