Hello World! I’m Back to Blogging! | /en/2026/01/hello-world/

giscus 1mo ago

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 …

https://yihui.org/en/2026/01/hello-world/

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9 Replies

MatheMatrix 1mo ago

wow, this is the first comment

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friendly 1mo ago

Thanks for this, Yihui
I've been wondering what you're up to and wishing you well!
-Michael

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yihui 1mo ago

Thank you, Michael!

thedivtagguy 1mo ago

Good to see you back, and looking forward to reading more of you this year! A very welcome addition to my RSS feed.

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dossag 1mo ago

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

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yihui 1mo ago

Thank you very much for thinking of me!

AlbertLei 1mo ago

"humor as a service" sounds fair, and you had me at the crayon & glue joke. Fine, guess I should pay you (not "donate") now

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ningzhang-lab 1mo ago

Gald you are coming back, Yihui Xie. I was waiting for a long long time to see your blogs and humors.

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mnunes 25d ago

I am very happy to see that you're doing well : )

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YueeXiang 18d ago

The story about the volcano is so touching🥹 happy new year!

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yihui 17d ago

Thanks! 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 17d ago

Amazing! The volcano and the skyline are that close even in one view. (Secretly opening my RStudio...

rasmusrhl 13d ago

Great to hear from you again. Thank you for all your work! 🎉✨

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