A self-hostable notebook platform to store, manage, and run marimo notebooks on your own infrastructure.

From spreadsheet to gt and back again

One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.

The important question about AI-assisted programming isn't who writes the code. It's who understands the system.

Which model is 'best'? A survey of the current model landscape.

YouTube video by John Helveston

File Pilot is a file explorer built from scratch for light-speed performance, with a modern and robust interface.

You might have noticed my slide illustrations in my last substack. This week I talk about how I made them: using AI, supported by an R package that turns yaml into images. You'll learn a bunch of my t...

`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.

Introducing bluffbench2, a new data science LLM evaluation.

Chord diagrams can be used to show relationships or flows between and within categories. This blog post introduces ggchord2, a new package that makes it possible to create them using ggplto2 in R.

Finding ways to reduce manual tasks when programming, like copying and pasting files or code, can save you time and minimise the risk of errors. This blog post guides you through a few small changes t...

Exploring the Positron features that use uv to enable Python installation and management.

Collaborating on Quarto documents, particularly non-technical collaborators who don’t want or need to edit any code, is hard. This blog post outlines a few different options that might make it a littl...

A couple of months ago, corteza was an R session you could hand to an LLM, as long as you fed it an API key and watched the per-token meter tick. As of this week you can point it at your Claude Pro/Ma...

New compact components in bslib and py-shiny for fitting buttons, selects, and other inputs into tight spaces.

My approach to agentic skills and how I build them around my own practice.

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...

YouTube video by Alejandro AO

Gribouille 0.3.0 gives guides and axes a much finer on/off switch, lets compose() carry its own theme, and makes geom-area() stack by default. A long list of legend and annotation fixes rounds it out.

This blog post explains the process of manipulating images using {imager} in R, processing pixel data, and using it to create a new version of an image that looks like it was printed with a typewriter...

In this technote we look at a few recent additions that make R-universe a little nicer, faster, or more convenient to use.