Samplyr

Disclaimer Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's: Claude helped me find up-to-date documentation links. No other disclaimers for this article. The message that found me in Thiès It's Saturday, around 1pm. Usually I'm lying down at that time on a Saturday, but not this one, I was outside, under the Senegalese sun. With a few good friends, I was wandering around Keur Cherif Lo, a small commune situated in western Senegal. It forms part of the Pambal district in the department of Tivaouane (Thiès region). I was looking for a plot of land to buy when I got a Signal notification, a message from my friend and brother Dicko. He asked me to proofread some slides he'd written for a talk he's giving at the useR! 2026 conference. We're really proud of him. I wasn't in front of my computer, and it was unbearably hot, so I replied that I'd read everything calmly once I got home. Which I did, of course, I'm a man of my word, but mostly because Dicko rarely writes, and when he does, it's always…