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Marty, I’ve been to the future and I have bad news. Wordle is getting harder. Not much, but harder. With millions of people playing the game Wordle online and the recent takeover by the New York times, some speculation about whether the game is getting harder is unavoidable. Since Wordle chooses a different word every day, some players have started to complain recent target words are harder to be guessed: It must be a coincidence, but the NY Times puzzles are hard and suddenly Wordle has questionable words ...

Introduction Unless you have been away for the last month, you, your family or friends have been talking about or playing Wordle. It is a very straightforward game which reminds us (old enough) of the great MasterMind, but with words. The idea is very simple. In the original version by Josh Wardle, we try to guess a (English) word of five letters. After each guess the game shows you what letters are in the answer in the right position (green), in the answer but in a wrong position (yellow) or not in the answer at all (gray). ...

Map art makes beautiful posters. You can find them all over the internet and buy them even framed for your favorite city, area or country. Those posters' beauty relies on the intricate and beautiful pattern of roads, buildings, parks, rivers, etc., which shape our cities and our mobility. In my research I constantly use those maps as the hardware fabric in which humans interact, move or encounter in urban settings. ...

This is Part III of my series of posts about how to setup you blog with RStudio and blogdown. The other parts are: Part I about to setup the blog using Hugo, RStudio and blogdown Part II explains my workflow of creating new posts. Part III (this one) how to modify the theme. In this post I am going to show how I modified the original theme casper-two that I use for my blog. ...

This is Part III of my series of posts about how to setup you blog with RStudio and blogdown. The other parts are: Part I about to setup the blog using Hugo, RStudio and blogdown Part II explains my workflow of creating new posts. Part III on how to modify the theme. Workflow In Part I of this series of post we setup our new blog using blogdown and Hugo. ...

Last month I migrated my blog from Wordpress to Hugo and blogdown. Now I can post from RStudio using R/markdown, which allow me to create interactive posts including R code. It has been such a good experience that I decide to write down how to do it with three posts to help others. This one about to setup the blog. Part II explains my workflow of creating new posts. and Part III on how to modify the theme. ...