Year: 2025

Here are a few brief reviews of some of the things I have been watching and reading lately. Movies/TV series A Goofy Movie (1995): I read that this movie is now a cult classic. A slapstick-driven road trip movie with Goofy and Max Goof exploring father-son dynamics in the most predictable way. It is not […]

In a recent blog post I made the argument that you should consider implementing the function base::use() into your workflow. Following the blog post, there was an interesting discussion on Reddit with some important caveats and limitations of use(). Here, I will summarise three interrelated points that I believe are important additions to my previous […]

In random order. 1. ’Centrumpladsen i Vester Aaby’ (2017) by Ulrik Møller. 2. ‘Mt. Angelus’ (2021) by Seth Armstrong. 3. ‘The Dramatist’ (1945) by Brigit Ganley. 4. ‘Apelles schildert Campaspe’ (1630) by Willem van Haecht. 5. ‘The Sower’ (1888) by Vincent van Gogh. 6. ‘Gas’ (1940) by Edward Hopper. 7. ‘Natura morta con zucca’ (1939) […]

In a technology feature in Nature, Jeffrey M. Perkel provides a guide for early-career researchers to help them make “the right choice” in terms of the best programming language to use. In this post, I will try to provide a few brief answers to the question. This post is more of a response to the […]

What can possibly be worse than a 3D chart or a pie chart? A 3D pie chart. In this post, I will argue that it is actually okay to make 3D pie charts. Or, at least not as bad as some people believe and are happy to make you believe. I have never made a […]