https://www.rostrum.blog/categories/meta/ Recent content in Meta on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Mon, 28 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/06/28/pixel-art/ Mon, 28 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/06/28/pixel-art/ It’s dangerous to code alone… tl;dr You can use R’s image() function to convert a matrix to a pixelly graphic. Pixel fixation My last post was about the {emojiscape} package, which makes a little scene out of sampled emojis. Following a similar approach, you could write a matrix by hand and plot it via the base function image(). Here’s a very basic example with a ‘glider’ from Conway’s Game of Life. https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/04/14/gha-readme/ Wed, 14 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/04/14/gha-readme/ Yesterday’s render of the GitHub README for this blog. tl;dr You can use a scheduled GitHub Action to render up-to-date stats about your blog into its README. Happy blogday This blog has been knocking around for three years now. I wrote a post on its first birthday with a simple, interactive 2D plot of the posts to date. Only now, two years later, have I thought to put this info into the blog’s README on GitHub—along with some other little stats, like total number of posts—and have it update automatically on a schedule using a GitHub Action.