shinygenui brings generative UI to Shiny. Give a language model a catalog of trusted components, and it can build and revise an interactive interface as people describe what they need.

Vendor exact R package sources and reference repositories into a greppable, verifiable tree for coding agents.

zmij converts doubles to the shortest decimal strings that parse back to exactly the same values. It brings Victor Zverovich's fast dtoa algorithm to R via Rust and extendr.

ggsci is now available for Rust: a core crate with the full collection of scientific journal and sci-fi themed color palettes, plus adapters that turn them into Ratatui styles and ggsql scale clauses,...

I built a Homebrew tap that distributes my fonts and CLI tools, so you can install everything with brew install. Here is why I made it, what's inside, and some honest notes on the Homebrew developer e...

bisectrunk is a Rust CLI for parallel Git bisection of real-world software regressions. It treats every candidate commit as an isolated, cached, resumable experiment, so you can trace a behavior chang...

I'm happy to share two new Python tools: asciilint, a minimal, CI-friendly CLI for character policy checks in text files, and playwright-byob, a tiny helper for launching Playwright against the Chrome...

A custom Iosevka build inspired by the look and feel of Anthropic Mono.

ggsci 5.0.0 introduces generative color palettes from Gephi. Instead of a fixed list of colors, you get a recipe: define the mood, ask for as many colors as you need, and the palette grows with your d...

AI feels useless at work for the same reason computers felt useless in the 1990s: the workflows haven't caught up with the technology.

I started using AI agents to maintain the awesome-shiny-extensions list: a case study in taste, harness engineering, and the surprising elegance of letting go.

pytest-r-snapshot is a pytest plugin for snapshot testing Python code against reference outputs from R. It enables a portable workflow where you record snapshots locally with R, then replay them every...

revdeprun 2.1.0 tackles three bottlenecks in the reverse dependency checking workflow: pak's install scheduler, tarball downloads, and package builds. The result? A new speedrun record: 2 hours 44 min...

Add a sprinkle of Fira Code ligatures to DM Mono for a unique terminal experience.

How fast can you run reverse dependency checks for a package with 1700+ reverse dependencies? I put revdeprun to the test with data.table on a 48-core cloud instance. Here is what I learned about spee...

revdeprun is a Rust CLI tool that makes running reverse dependency checks on cloud instances as easy as a single command. Learn why this matters for R package maintainers and how it can save you hours...

ggsci 4.0.0 is here, with over 400 new color palettes from Primer, Atlassian, and iTerm2-Color-Schemes to bring more options to your ggplot2 data visualizations.

Bring publication-ready color palettes to your Python plots with py-ggsci. This new package ports the popular ggsci palettes from R to plotnine and makes it easy to create beautiful, professional visu...

Markdown Stupefy is a VS Code extension that converts smart punctuation to ASCII, removes emoji, and tidies trailing whitespace so AI-generated text is easy to edit and diff.

I rebuilt my deep learning GPU selector app using Claude Code, and here is what I learned from this small vibe coding experiment.

I attended my first PyCon in Pittsburgh. Here is what caught my attention as a statistician by learning from the Python community.

Introducing pkgdown.offline, an R package for building pkgdown websites entirely offline. Learn how it addresses recent pkgdown internet requirements, essential for CI/CD pipelines and air-gapped envi...

Fine-tune the popular Inter typeface using optical sizing (opsz) and letter spacing. This post introduces a set of CSS presets to easily adjust its appearance for optimal readability in your web proje...

Learn why using .combine in R parallel foreach loops can harm performance. Benchmark comparisons show that manual aggregation methods like data.table::rbindlist() significantly accelerate execution.

r-rust-pkgs is a curated GitHub repository that collects R packages on CRAN that use Rust. It provides a centralized resource for finding high-performance R packages built with Rust, leveraging Rust's...

rtflite is a lightweight Python package for generating production-ready tables, listings, and figures (TLFs) in RTF format, designed for clinical study reporting and regulatory submissions while integ...

RStudio 2024.12.0 unconditionally adds a ProjectID field to .Rproj files, causing unwanted Git diffs and potential editing conflicts. This post explains the issue and provides an R script to automatic...

pkglite for Python is a simple framework to pack source packages written in any language into a text file and restore them, supporting reproducible research and standard engineering workflows across d...

Learn how to customize the default snapshot directory in testthat using monkey patching in R. This post provides a practical solution for modifying testthat internals to meet your project's needs, wit...

Learn how to skip the RStudio IDE splash screen using simple automation scripts for macOS, Linux, and Windows.

Introducing tinyvdiff, a minimalist pytest plugin for visual regression testing in Python. Designed for reproducible workflows, tinyvdiff converts PDFs into SVG snapshots for comparing appearance chan...