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In this tutorial/howto I show you how to run a docker container on a schedule on gitlab. Docker containers are awesome because, once made, they run everywhere! It does not matter what type of computer (Though I believe there is a problem with ARM based vs other CPU’s). you have. Once I build a container you can run my container on a linux box, windows machine or mac. This is also why people love containers for production, you can finally truly pick up a container from development and hand it over to production. [Read More]

In this tutorial I have an R script that runs every day on github actions. It creates a curve in ggplot2 and posts that picture to twitter. The use case is this: You have a script and it needs to run on a schedule (for instance every day). Other ways to schedule a script I will create a new post for many of the other ways on which you can run an R script on schedule. [Read More]

In this tutorial I have an R script that creates a plot and tweets it, it runs every day on gitlab runners. The use case is this: You have a script and it needs to run on a schedule (for instance every day). Other ways to schedule a script I will create a new post for many of the other ways on which you can run an R script on schedule. [Read More]

In this tutorial I have an R script that runs every day on heroku. It creates a curve in ggplot2 and posts that picture to twitter. The use case is this: You have a script and it needs to run on a schedule (for instance every day). In 2018 I wrote a small post how to run an R script on heroku. The amazing thing is that the bot I created back then is still running! [Read More]

In this explainer I walk you through the steps I took to create a twitter bot that tweets daily about people who died on that date. I created a script that queries wikidata, takes that information and creates a sentence. That sentence is then tweeted. For example: A tweet I literally just send out from the docker container I hope you are has excited as I am about this project. [Read More]