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Programming: Godot 4.1, Pokology, and More

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 29, 2023

Release candidate: Godot 4.1 RC 1

After 4 months of development, Godot 4.1 is only days away. To make sure it doesn't miss the mark, here's the first release candidate for your testing!

Applied Pokology: Array boundaries and closures in Poke

Poke arrays are rather peculiar. One of their seemingly bizarre characteristics is the fact that the expressions calculating their boundaries (when they are bounded) evaluate in their own lexical environment, which is captured. In other words: the expressions denoting the boundaries of Poke arrays conform closures. Also, the way they evaluate may be surprising. This is no capricious.

The ave() Function in R

In the world of data analysis and statistics, grouping data based on certain criteria is a common task.

Tidy Tuesday: US Populated PlacesToday’s TidyTuesday is about place names as recorded by the US Board on Geographic Names. The dataset has been cleaned to include only populated places. This week will involve more libraries than normal, since I am going to play with mapping.

Python Convert List of Strings to Ints

To convert a list of strings to integers various methods such as the “for” loop, “List Comprehension”, “eval()”, and “map()” function is used in Python.

Major Hayden: Deploy a containerized Ghost blog 👻

Ghost delivers a great self-hosted blogging platform that deploys well in containers. Let’s deploy it on CoreOS along with Caddy. ️📝