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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 24/09/2026

As announced at posit::conf(2026) #ggsql is now, with the release of version 0.5.0, in Beta. I'm so excited for the future of this project. Read all about what the latest version brings you in the release post

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ggsql 0.5.0: Readers, Writers, and Beta status

Announcing ggsql 0.5.0, with new readers and writers for getting data in and out, and the project's graduation to beta status.

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 15/09/2026

Will the presentation be available outside the conference?

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apenwarr @apenwarr.ca · 19/08/2026

Ok this is a fun game

Tweet like bsky user apenwarr.ca:

Customers: We want a faster horse.

Henry Ford: Ah, in fact—

Kubernetes: Let me stop you right there. What you really need is 1,000 horses that die randomly.

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 19/08/2026

Nice work! 😍 Is this going to be the default ggsql renderer and replace vega lite?

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 25/07/2026

Ah nice! I'm curious to see how it will look like

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 25/07/2026

Pretty spot on! I chuckled with the part about people not reading error messages. They don't read anything! And it seems more obvious with LLMs reading everything in seconds. I still prefer messy CSVs though. It feels strange not existing an "unzipped" parquet that's readable/diffable.

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 13/07/2026

Do you have any book recommendation written by her?

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 23/06/2026

Do you love maps? Of course you do! With the latest release of #ggsql we now support spatial plotting directly from your database. As a cherry on top, the release also provides powerful in-layer aggregation. Read all about it on the blog

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ggsql 0.4.1: Spatial plotting and in-layer aggregation

ggsql 0.4.1 adds support for spatial plotting and data aggregation within layers. Read all about the new features in this release post.

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 22/06/2026

Congratulations! Is that total/monthly/weekly? Can you see it in some site?

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 22/06/2026

"my brain is leaking out of one ear" could be linkedin elevator pitch

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 26/05/2026

Looks so good! Is the code available? Or can you at least share which packages you used?

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 21/05/2026

Indeed! Controlling zooming, hover states, etc. and how to create a nice API for all that... Seems a fun yet challenging task

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 21/05/2026

Can't wait to try it out!

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 21/05/2026

Oho that's great news! Will it be interactive? Is it built on top of some existing charting library? I don't envy the task, but can't wait to see the result

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 21/05/2026

Thank you for the feedback! I'll try to worry about API changes later 😅 Do you guys have any plans to replace/improve the writer soon? Atm it limits even more than the WASM errors. Although the errors are irrecoverable, I work around it by storing configs on the URL, and the CSV on indexDB

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 20/05/2026

Hey @thomasp85.com @teunbrand.bsky.social, I created a chart builder built on top of #ggsql: plotr.org. Sort of the ggsql Esquisse version :) Would love to hear what you think! It's still very much experimental though.

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plotr — A ggsql chart builder

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Joseph Galbo @josephgalbo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I think about this comic all the time.

Comic by drawer of drawings on Instagram. A detective stands in a kitchen that looks like it's splattered with blood. The detective says, mother of god. Nothing human could have done this. In the bottom panel it says, earlier. And there is a dog uneasily holding a ketchup bottle with its paws trying to put ketchup on a hamburger.

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garrison @garrison.corporate.fm · 01/05/2026

atproto devs watching mitchellh use tangled like he's the critic in ratatouille

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 25/04/2026

@thomasp85.com @teunbrand.bsky.social @gws.phd I wrote a little post about why I ggsql makes so much sense to me. Impressive work, congratulations! carva.lu/posts/i-love...

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I love ggsql!

Why I think it's great

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 25/04/2026

Indeed, these design traits seem subtle but the impact is incredible. Sometimes I use Esquisse to understand how a chart works and many times I get an informative chart even half way building it. And I'm feeling the same with ggsql playground.

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 23/04/2026

I guess what's unexpected is not having a mandatory aesthetic fill. I talked with several people and they thought the same. Some assumed if the default of fill would be the count of the grouped x and y. Not sure if this is how it works in the majority of charting libraries but it's a nice detail

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 22/04/2026

Hey @thomasp85.com @hadley.nz why do we see black rectangles on heatmaps when we select only x and y? What was the motivation behind it? I was talking with colleagues and we all agreed this is such a nice feature to quickly know if there's an intersection even before selecting the 3rd variable

Heatmap of palmer penguins with just x and y defined

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 20/04/2026

I am excited beyond description to lift the veil on what we have been working on in 2026: Please meet ggsql! A new extension of the SQL language for creating visualisations using the grammar of graphics. Read all about it in the blog post or visit the website at ggsql.org

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ggsql: A grammar of graphics for SQL

Introducing ggsql, a grammar of graphics for SQL that lets you describe visualizations directly inside SQL queries.

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 14/04/2026

btw I periodically have to recommend runcat because it rules. the kitty runs faster when cpu goes up apps.apple.com/us/app/runca...

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 13/04/2026

I use a Claude skill I named "/code-review". Maybe because it doesn't share the context and it has different directive, it catches a lot of stuff. Never tried a complementary LLM though. Might be worth it if the free plans are enough

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Thread of non-English Wikipedia articles about slang/idioms!!! Here's “Ketchupeffekt” from Swedish Wikipedia. They're all autotranslated to English in my browser

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 20/03/2026

Interesting. I have a hard time to draw the line between the aesthetically pleasing and functional. I wonder if some people find something aesthetically pleasing because they saw it many times in publications and people create a positive association with some fonts, colors, etc.

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 20/03/2026

I thought RSI was more of a chronic disease, I'm glad you recovered so well. I don't have RSI issues (for the moment), but I do indoor biking and I'm trying to find a way to interact with my PC. In any case thank you for the offer and information!

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 18/03/2026

These look really nice! Why did you decide going with these ones? I've read about color schemes, but I can't get a good answer which ones work better from a functional perspective. I was told Color Brewer are older research, but I don't know what is new research.

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 18/03/2026

Hey @joshwcomeau.com are you still using Talon to control your PC via voice?

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 18/02/2026

yes! But I run out of energy almost always and just scroll for an hour...

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 04/02/2026

Wait this was made with ggplot2? Could you share the code? Looks incredible!

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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 30/01/2026

Wow! The slowly showing all the map information; then line charts with the x and y tooltips connected to the axes so we can compare the hovered value to values in the axis; and subplots with a toggle to make it easy to compare subplots, or make it easy to compare plot lines... Just incredible!

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 21/01/2026

This is really nice! I think I just found a way to get the current stat for the first layer. Not sure if this is too convoluted, but at least I can get to the plot settings.

Getting the current defined stat for the plot

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 18/12/2025

OK, just downloaded the dataset and it's incomplete. Filtered Luxembourg (where I live) and it only lists 8 roundabouts. I bet there are hundreds if not thousands.

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 18/12/2025

Wait, Madeira has no roundabouts?

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 08/12/2025

Ah, you tracked by the pronouns. Indeed you could get a list of all the characters and assign a gender and do a count on that. Although that seems a lot of work 😬

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 06/12/2025

That seems interesting! Any insights from the analysis? Maybe some nice plots? 🙂

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 24/11/2025

Don’t know the others, but the second one seems quite a blatant copy of hearthstone

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.

Stack of blocks labeled, all modern digital infrastructure. A ratchet tipping over the entire stack is labeled AI. A load bearing pillar is labeled unpaid open source development. Another label is AWS, and Cloudflare and Unpaid Open Source Developers.

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 19/11/2025

Now I'm curious to know what happened there on "A case of Identity" 😅

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Artur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 12/11/2025

Thank you! I was thinking of discrete variables as a subset of the numeric variables, so that confused me a bit.

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