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Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 08/06/2026

This reminded me that back when I led the js4shiny.com workshop at #RStudioConf2020, I made a little easter egg app for the course if you click on the hex logo on the site. It was a little hex sticker memory game inspired by a Shiny app by the dreamRs team

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Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 18/05/2026

I'm a fan of `npx skills add`, but I also made a small similar wrapper in btw: `btw skills install`. There's also `btw_skill_install_github()` and related functions you can call from R: posit-dev.github.io/btw/dev/refe...

A screenshot of the `btw skills install` help text for the btw CLI tool. "Install a skill from a package or GitHub repository. Usage `btw skills install [OPTIONS] <source>`"

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Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 09/04/2026

This is a really neat idea but I'll never remember the commands, so I created a little `git-recon` bash script that runs them in series, complete with some ascii bar plots. gist.github.com/gadenbuie/46...

The "Commit timing" portion of the script. Shows commit counts by hour and day as two separate ASCII bar plots.

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Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 13/03/2026

Humans AI Agents 🤝 CLI tools Coming soon to btw, an #RStats cli tool for agents and humans

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Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 23/12/2025

Happy holidays! 🎄 I snuck in a {btw} release just before CRAN went on vacation for the year. {btw} is an #RStats package full of tools for LLMs, including a new tool for running R code. Here's a quick demo using `btw_app()` to create a quick festive ggplot2 from holiday movie titles. Cheers! 🧑‍🎄

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Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 18/12/2025

For months I've had a pesky message that shows up in my #RStats test logs and today I realized I can figure out exactly where it's coming from with testthat's location reporter Rscript -e 'devtools::test(reporter = "location")' 2>&1 | tee test.log

Logs from testing with the location reporter. The logs show the location of each expectation, and the message "You found me!" where an unexpected `message()` was emitted between lines 20 and 24 of test-btw_client.R

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Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 02/10/2025

You arrive at a text input and start typing. Would you rather 1️⃣ Press Enter to submit your text 2️⃣ Press Enter to add a new line

A text input interface with a submit button. In the text area: "I'm writing some text and want a new line..."

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Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 11/09/2025

ggplot2 4.0.0 is out and the new `paper`, `ink`, `accent` theme variables look super cool! Just pick 2-3 colors 🎨 to make your plots look great! I'm excited to hook this up to brand.yml 😉

A ggplot2 plot showing a classic `mpg` scatter plot. The code uses `theme_gray()` with `paper = "cornstalk"` for a light yellow background, `ink = "navy"` for navy blue text and points, and `accent = "tomato"` which is applied to the smoothing line created with `geom_smooth()`

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Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 08/08/2025

I think you're on to something, but I couldn't replicate with the API (via Raycast)

Me: How many b's in blueberry
gpt-5: (Thinking...) 2

Me: How many b's in blueberry?
gpt-5-mini: There are 2 b's in "blueberry"—the 1st and the 5th letters.

Me: How many b's in blueberry?
gpt-5-nano: There are 2 b's in "blueberry": b l u e b e r r y

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Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 03/04/2025

they all try to say “this is a bad idea” in the way llms do but gemini didn’t pull any punches

3. Calculate Required Tariff (Ignoring Economics):
• If you assume, very unrealistically, that a tariff directly reduces the value of imports by a corresponding percentage (which it doesn't
- it increases the price), you could try:
Required Reduction % = Deficit_x / Value of Imports from X

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Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 26/01/2025

Dear algorithm, show me more of this!!

“Show more like this” selected from bluesky’s context menu in the discover feed

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Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 22/01/2025

Don't want to see links to X on here? Go to Settings > Moderation > Muted words & tags and add "x.com" to mute forever. You can mute the word everywhere or choose to exclude posts from people you follow.

The Bluesky muted words and tags interface with "x.com" muted forever in text & tags (excluding users you follow)

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Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 08/01/2025

I did have a blast looking through old geocities sites for inspo. I'm pretty sure I used this BRWNPAPR.jpeg background in my myspace profile one time

A screenshot of a chaotic "stop java.com" home page. Featuring clip art of a trash can overlaid on the Java log along with quotes like "I'd rather go baremetal than virtualize" and "THINK! What's YOUR RAM footprint?".

A guestbook form with a visitor counter at the bottom. The page has a repeated crinkled brown paper background and features a "you are visitor #" visitor counter claiming you're visitor #4553 in green digits on a black background

"Why data footprint" in large red print on a repeated matrix style background. Yellow boxes with harsh red contrast text say things like "big data - big waste!" and "small data, big insights"

The blog page, which claims to be under construction. A dancing banana gif distracts you while you wait for a blog that is never coming.

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Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 07/12/2024

testing again with suggestive content label

An empty road disappears into a cloud of fog

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Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 07/12/2024

testing with another label

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Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 05/12/2024

Did you know #Shiny has a developer mode that turns on auto-reloading, an in-app error console and more? #RStats

In R, set `options(shiny.devmode = TRUE)` in your .Rprofile or call `shiny::devmode(TRUE)`. In Python, use `shiny run` with the `--dev-mode` flag.

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Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 04/12/2024

Did anybody else get rich off of Equifax exposing your personal data?

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Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 23/11/2024

Let it be known, as part of my last will and testament, that my headstone shall prominently feature a QR code and it shall point to Rick Astley’s 1987 song “Never Gonna Give You Up”

“Headstone QR Code Accessory” for $22 on Amazon

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Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 30/07/2023

I’m a little bummed I can’t delete this app by tapping the X

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