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Andrew Holz

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Engineering manager type -- privileged to get to work with the Shiny, Quarto, mlverse and Tiny (py) Tools teams at Posit towards code first data science nirvana!

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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The animated slides in service of explaining how it works are outstanding!
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
And after ironing out a few things this was actually fun to build!
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Many (most) organizations have overly aggressive goals which are a direct result of wishful thinking masquerading as strategy. Missing goals really grinds people down overtime and actually undermines progress. How to be a voice for "realism" without being painted as "negative" feels important.
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
If you don't subscribe to Glimpse, consider it? Isabella does a great job of rounding up whats up in Posit Open Source and sharing a bunch of links so you can check out the bits you find interesting. posit.co/blog/2026-08...
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posit::glimpse() Newsletter - August 2026
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I am listening and am on book 3. Narrator is soooo good.
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Christophe Dervieux @cderv.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Quarto 1.10 shipped Friday. The highlights page lists one feature. The changelog lists 74. Mostly preview friction: stale pages, _brand.yml ignored until restart, format: changes needing two renders. If you work in Positron, that's your whole day. A boring release. Best kind.
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Tomasz Kalinowski @t-kalinowski.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I'm happy to share `ir`, a new command-line tool for running portable R scripts and Quarto documents. It's inspired by my two favorite parts of `uv`: self-describing scripts and tools you can run without installing first. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...
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ir 0.1.0: self-describing R scripts and Quarto documents
`ir` is a new command-line tool for running portable R scripts and rendering Quarto documents whose package requirements, and optional R selection, live inside the file itself.
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Every time someone pastes a screenshot of a plot into their doc or presentation, an angel _loses_ its wings.
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Code has gotten cheap, and that changes what's worth building. An underappreciated use of LLMs isn't the shipped app — it's the throwaway tool made mid-task, like a carpenter's jig: built to make one cut exact, not to be kept. Cheap code makes a whole new class of project worth making.
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Does it make sense to do a version for the super new R version of uv, ir? github.com/r-lib/ir 😛
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GitHub - r-lib/ir
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Free text has infinite ways to be wrong. A grammar or function call doesn't. That's why tool calling and SQL generation (see shiny querychat) get more from LLMs. Constrain the model to a structured response and trade an open, hallucination-prone vocabulary for a closed, testable one.
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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
New version of quarto-shapes and quarto-revealjs-editable today! shapes now include callouts with custom anchor direction, and editable now have full shapes support! github.com/EmilHvitfeld... github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto #slidecrafting
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Crazy, I started listening to the audiobook with my son on a road trip?!?
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
So much potential in the q2 and quartohub work! Team is killing it!
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Carson Sievert (he/him) @cpsievert.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I'm thrilled to share that #querychat now supports more exploratory visualization powered by #ggsql. We're excited about what this direction can unlock for data scientists looking to curate "tidy" data for others explore. Expect more on this in the coming months. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...
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Ask more of your dashboard with querychat and ggsql
querychat now supports ggsql-powered visualizations — users can ask "show me" questions and get charts rendered directly in the chat, alongside SQL queries and reactive filtering, all without arbitrar...
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Love it! The demo link seems to not go where you intended possibly?
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Engineering used to be the expensive part of building products. It isn't anymore — though cheaper building won't make a spray of projects land. The bottleneck is the story: internal and to users, in their language, so the need is obvious. Always hard; now an order of magnitude more important.
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Would love to hear more about the collaborative editing questions!
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Posit @posit.co · 06/05/2026
Announcing posit::glimpse() May 2026! ✨ Key open-source updates for #RStats, #Python, and now #SQL: 📊 ggsql: Grammar of graphics for SQL 🤖 raghilda: Simplified RAG in Python 🔭 Shiny + pointblank: Built-in OpenTelemetry support 🦀 Quarto 2: A Rust-based future Read more: posit.co/blog/2026-05...
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posit::glimpse() Newsletter - May 2026
We’re introducing new packages like ggsql and raghila, alongside major updates to Quarto and many other open-source packages.
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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Need a little whimsy in your quarto slides? Presenting quarto-revealjs-transitions with 100+ new slide transitions github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
cthulhuian horror poetry.
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Love the spread css! I will be using this! It feels though for say the three bullet item lists I want a bit of extra on the top and bottom… so they fill the space but have a top and bottom padding. The last item is too close to the bottom of the slide. Does that make sense?
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Quarto v1.9 is now out. Release blog post summarizes the new goodies. quarto.org/docs/blog/po...
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Quarto 1.9 – Quarto
Quarto 1.9 adds publishing to Posit Connect Cloud, LLM-friendly website output, major Typst improvements, experimental PDF accessibility standards, and list tables for complex table content.
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 20/03/2026
We have summer internships y'all! Come work at Posit on the PyData, tidymodels, shiny, or Connect teams: grnh.se/tigz810a3us. You will have an awesome time, learn a ton, and help advance our open source and pro tools 🧰 #rstats #pydata
Kermit the frog screaming with excitement
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Really happy that Glimpse is going monthly. Much better timing considering how fast the world seems to be moving.
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Posit @posit.co · 11/03/2026
The March edition of posit::glimpse() is here! 🚀 Key updates include Posit AI, a new assistant in RStudio, Pointblank for synthetic data for #Python, mirai v2.6.0: 50% faster async #RStats ⚡, Positron's PDF viewer + Jupyter support, and more. Read the full roundup: posit.co/blog/glimpse...
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posit::glimpse() Newsletter – March 2026 - Posit
Stay up to date with the latest in this posit::glimpse() roundup, featuring posit::conf(2026) registration, the launch of Posit AI, and updates to Positron, Quarto, and mirai.
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Accessibility is hard and nuanced but oh so important. Quarto takes another step forward thanks to Gordon Woodhull. quarto.org/docs/blog/po...
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Interesting writeup from Rich (of GT fame) on what Wes McKinney has unlocked with rise of LLMs. posit.co/blog/the-pro.... I have thoughts about what this type of development means for teams and processes. Need to share some of them soon! Moving target!
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The Prolific Output of Wes McKinney in the Age of Agentic Engineering - Posit
Wes McKinney is shipping open source projects faster than ever, using AI coding agents to build across Python, Go, Swift, and Rust... and he's having more fun than he's had in years.
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Posit @posit.co · 18/02/2026
The newest edition of posit::glimpse() is here! 🚀 Read a roundup of major #RStats & #Python updates: ggplot2 4.0.0, dplyr 1.2.0, ellmer 0.4.0, Positron native Jupyter Notebook support , and more. 🎟️ Plus, registration for posit::conf(2026) is officially OPEN! Find it here: posit.co/blog/posit-g...
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posit::glimpse() Newsletter – February 2026 - Posit
This edition covers major updates from Posit, including new versions of ggplot2, ellmer, and dplyr.
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I really love querychat as a way to leverage the flexibility of LLMs but in a safe controlled way. Building dashboards in Python? This excellent walk through by Veerle is _worth_ checking out. youtu.be/AntqhLhw4BM?... If you "just wish it had the option to..." PLEASE REACH OUT! WE ARE LISTENING!
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querychat in Python: Query Your Data with Natural Language | Shiny + LLMs | Veerle van Leemput
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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Surprise I wrote another quarto revealjs extension. Now giving you more fragments to use! Easy to use fragments with conventional syntax. Works on headers, whole slides and on a letter-by-letter basis github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I think the Turing test with real world implications is -- can an AI agent _appear_ more productive than an apathetic human in a broken system _appears_.
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Have you used HR systems?!?
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Open source all the things.
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Amazing post on an amazing session. Thank you so much for sharing Emily!
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Models continue to improve at a good clip. Great to see Simon and Sara bring independant, no agenda numbers to the table. I wonder how long this can go on and how many "niches" will get focused attention.
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Posit @posit.co · 11/12/2025
New data from @sara-altman.bsky.social & @simonpcouch.com, using the vitals and ellmer packages, looks at LLM performance metrics for #RStats. 👀 Sneak peek: Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, & OpenAI GPT-5 lead in generating correct R code. Read the full breakdown: posit.co/blog/r-llm-e...
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Which LLM writes the best R code? - Posit
The vitals package delivers a dedicated framework for measuring how well Large Language Models perform with code.
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Isabel Z is killing it giving a talk on data tools as the keynote speaker at pydata Boston! Let’s go!
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I put together two roundups from posit::conf(2025): • Shiny talks + full workshop materials shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/c... • Quarto talks playlist and summaries quarto.org/docs/blog/po...
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Posit @posit.co · 19/11/2025
Introducing bluffbench, a new tool to evaluate how well LLMs actually see data plots. When we trick LLMs with secret #RStats transformations, they can miss the visual contradiction. bluffbench helps us measure this "blind spot" in AI coding agents. Learn more: posit.co/blog/introdu...
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When plotting, LLMs see what they expect to see - Posit
Data science agents need to accurately read plots even when the content contradicts their expectations. Our testing shows today's LLMs still struggle here.
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I am looking forward to PyData Boston in a few weeks. If anyone is going and wants to meet up please let me know. I will be sitting at the Posit table quite a bit of the time. I went to the last few PyData NYCs so it will be interesting to see how it differs. pydata.org/boston2025
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PyData Boston 2025
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Max kuhn @topepo.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
We're hiring an open-source #python developer focused on modeling APIs! tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11... #numpy #scipy #scikitlearn
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Python Open-Source Developer
Posit is hiring a Python open-source developer to create more data analysis tools.
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
How long before I can get a credit card with a reward program paying out in Anthropic or OpenAI token credits?
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
In case you missed it in all the posit::conf 2025 content, checking out part 3 of Veerle van Leemput's series on building your first AI powered app is worth checking out! shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/s...
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Shiny - Build Your First LLM App with Shiny for Python or R
Shiny is a package that makes it easy to create interactive web apps using R and Python.
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Part two of Veerle van Leemput's exploration of LLMs is out. Her exposition is so clear and easy to follow even if you are not likely to use Shiny its worth checking out! shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/s...
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Shiny - Talking to LLMs: From Prompt to Response
Shiny is a package that makes it easy to create interactive web apps using R and Python.
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Obviously this does not replace manual EDA... but it lowers the bar to taking a quick look so much engaging with data you would not otherwise becomes a real option.
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Posit @posit.co · 29/08/2025
Introducing Databot: an AI assistant for exploratory data analysis in #Python and #RStats! A research preview in Positron, Databot is a tireless pair programmer to help you explore data. Learn more about this tool and our philosophy behind it: 🤖 posit.co/blog/introdu... ⚠️ posit.co/blog/databot...
Collaborate > automate. Databot logo alongside screenshot of Positron.
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Finally got Glimpse out focused on what the Posit open source team has been up to. Turns out its quite a bit! posit.co/blog/posit-g... I continue to be happy with the approach we (Posit) are taking with LLMs and AI. Too impactful to ignore but focus on useful and safe as much as possible.
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Posit
Posit's latest glimpse newsletter highlights new product releases, including the Positron IDE and several new LLM-powered tools.
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
You might be in a certain kind of family if... as leftovers are being put away in the fridge there is an involved discussion on if the fridge is LIFO or FIFO and if that is family member specific. Then the undeniable trump card is played and its really MDFO (Most Delicious) for everyone.
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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
This is fantastic! Really looking forward to using this … like tomorrow! Let’s gooooo!
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