Helped build NYS's Forest Carbon Assessment. Currently helping build public water data infrastructure. PhD in Environmental Science. #rstats, ML, Boston and spatial data. Opinions my own. RTs imply causation. https://mm218.dev github.com/mikemahoney218https://bsky.app/profile/mikemahoney218.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikemahoney218.com/post/3mlcc53alsk2rBack when we were standing up APIs for New York's forest carbon assessment, standing up observability tooling was a much harder job than expected, and we relied a lot on (great!) mostly-unmaintained 3rd party packages Really excited to see 1st party o11y arrive for a lot of the #rstats ecosystem! [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 May 2026 22:44 +0000at://did:plc:nnvf4hwrvrixzogemf23ntcp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlcc53alsk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikemahoney218.com/post/3mkvrkusodc2nmy friend misunderstood what Fox's "The Bear" betting guide is about and was convinced The Bear was favored to win the Derby which, a bear being released alongside the horses would certainly change the event! [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 May 2026 23:16 +0000at://did:plc:nnvf4hwrvrixzogemf23ntcp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkvrkusodc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikemahoney218.com/post/3mkkk4hypzs2dI don't think of myself as a high maintenance person but also I do bring a full coffee setup when traveling28 Apr 2026 12:03 +0000at://did:plc:nnvf4hwrvrixzogemf23ntcp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkkk4hypzs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikemahoney218.com/post/3mkgdwrmojs2c [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Apr 2026 20:02 +0000at://did:plc:nnvf4hwrvrixzogemf23ntcp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkgdwrmojs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/mikemahoney218.com/post/3mkejtgpdvs2yseeing all the data center news and I think my main question is "why is commercial electric priced the same as residential" I'm sure there's a good answer, but couldn't aggressive commercial pricing fix a lot of the problems here?26 Apr 2026 02:42 +0000at://did:plc:nnvf4hwrvrixzogemf23ntcp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkejtgpdvs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikemahoney218.com/post/3mjp3hohuik2jsomething I think is very cool is that you can see high level traffic numbers for most gov sites on a single domain something less cool is that 32% of recent traffic to .gov sites is direct traffic from Singapore which doesn't _scream_ organic to me analytics.usa.gov https://analytics.usa.gov/17 Apr 2026 13:59 +0000at://did:plc:nnvf4hwrvrixzogemf23ntcp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjp3hohuik2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikemahoney218.com/post/3mjp3doatmk2jhonest to God this is pretty close to what I do and it seems to work alright [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Apr 2026 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:nnvf4hwrvrixzogemf23ntcp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjp3doatmk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikemahoney218.com/post/3mjfa7iowk22cI am _begging_ standards agencies to provide HTML versions of their documents currently cross referencing five PDFs to try and figure out how to structure a simple json 🫠13 Apr 2026 15:57 +0000at://did:plc:nnvf4hwrvrixzogemf23ntcp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjfa7iowk22chttps://bsky.app/profile/mikemahoney218.com/post/3miwbr32zak2nupdate: if the struct implements serde's deserialize, you can use extendr_api::serializer::to_robj to return an Robj [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Apr 2026 17:15 +0000at://did:plc:nnvf4hwrvrixzogemf23ntcp/app.bsky.feed.post/3miwbr32zak2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikemahoney218.com/post/3mivsncxigk2nHey #rstats -- does anyone have a good example of how to serialize a struct from a 3rd-party rust crate using extendr to make it available from R?07 Apr 2026 12:44 +0000at://did:plc:nnvf4hwrvrixzogemf23ntcp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mivsncxigk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikemahoney218.com/post/3mineogdijs25I find this bot truly delightful not just because it's glimpses into random places people are likely to be -- but also because the logic used to grab photos doesn't seem to have a great hit rate, and I find that really charming [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Apr 2026 04:13 +0000at://did:plc:nnvf4hwrvrixzogemf23ntcp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mineogdijs25https://bsky.app/profile/mikemahoney218.com/post/3mimc5vppuc2gRelatedly -- you shouldn't maintain an FAQ in your documentation. If you're getting the same question frequently enough to document it, you should look at designing a solution into your system instead [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Apr 2026 17:56 +0000at://did:plc:nnvf4hwrvrixzogemf23ntcp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mimc5vppuc2g