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🎮 Character sheet

┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  COLIN FAY                                    class: R dev    │
├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  R / {shiny}          █████████████████████████████░   lvl 99 │
│  Package dev          █████████████████████████████░   lvl 99 │
│  JS & webR            ████████████████████░░░░░░░░░░   lvl 74 │
│  Data engineering     ████████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░   lvl 60 │
│  Docker & CI          ██████████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░   lvl 68 │
│  Kilometres per week  ██████████████████████████████   lvl 100│
│  Decibels tolerated   ███████████████████████████████████████████
├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  quests  » shipping {shiny} apps that survive production      │
│  loot    » a book, a bunch of packages, way too many talks    │
│  weakness» Needs Black Metal and coffee to ship code          │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

🧬 whoami

colin <- list(
  builds = c(
    "R packages",
    "{shiny} apps that go to prod",
    "books"
  ),
  ask_me_about = c(
    "R",
    "Web apps",
    "software engineering",
    "open source"
  ),
  pronouns = "he/him",
  offline = c(
    "ultra running",
    "black metal"
  ),
  status = "complaining about computers"
)

• 🔭 Open-source R tooling, mostly around getting {shiny} into production
• 📚 Wrote Engineering Production-Grade Shiny Apps — free to read online
• 🎤 I speak about R & software engineering all over the world: slides · videos & talks
• ⚡ Fun fact: I run a lot, eat only plants, and love weird metal genres

🧰 Weapons of choice

🏆 Loot drops

	Project	What it is
📦	{golem}	An opinionated framework for production-grade {shiny} applications
📚	Engineering Production-Grade Shiny Apps	The book that goes with it
📱	Rlinguo	A native mobile app that actually runs R
🕸️	webrcli & spidyr	A toolkit for working with NodeJS & webR

_{👉 …plus a long tail of packages, talks and blog posts. Dig through the repos, there's treasure in there.}

📊 Stats

📫 Say hi

I blog on a gloriously irregular basis on colinfay.me, and I'm always up for talking R, Shiny in production, long stupid runs, or blast beats. Need a hand with something? Ping me.

_{🤘 Thanks for stopping by. May your builds be green, your coffee black, and your riffs heavy. 🤘}