Hello World! I’m back to blogging after a long hiatus of two whole years. People have been kindly asking how’s my life going. Since I haven’t written a blog post for so long, some …
wow, this is the first comment
Thanks for this, Yihui
I've been wondering what you're up to and wishing you well!
-Michael
yihui 2026-01-26 03:47:09Thank you, Michael!
Good to see you back, and looking forward to reading more of you this year! A very welcome addition to my RSS feed.
Wow, glad to hear from you. I thought about you three months ago. And realized there was no update yet here. I love the analogy about kids surrounding you. hahaha
yihui 2026-01-27 04:01:47Thank you very much for thinking of me!
"humor as a service" sounds fair, and you had me at the crayon & glue joke. Fine, guess I should pay you (not "donate") now
Gald you are coming back, Yihui Xie. I was waiting for a long long time to see your blogs and humors.
I am very happy to see that you're doing well : )
The story about the volcano is so touching🥹 happy new year!
yihui 2026-02-11 15:18:13Thanks! 新年快乐！
Here is a picture that I took:
You can draw a contour plot in R:
filled.contour(volcano, color.palette = terrain.colors)The place where I took the picture is at the left side of this plot (facing the deep crater).
YueeXiang 2026-02-12 03:21:13Amazing! The volcano and the skyline are that close even in one view. (Secretly opening my RStudio...
Great to hear from you again. Thank you for all your work! 🎉✨
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