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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 29/04/2026

Little one is going to (half-)day care twice a week so that means time for a quick training before work 😎💻 Homegym = lifesaver if you’re juggling work, momlife, and all the other stuff us humans need to manage

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 16/03/2026

Note to self: don’t plan a meeting when you *think* you’re child is going to be asleep. Because he is not going to be asleep. He falls asleep right after the meeting that did not happen should have ended 🤠. #momlife

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 20/02/2026

Can you see the LMS/website behind me? 👀 It’s @athlyticz.bsky.social and I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining the leadership team! Exciting times 🤩. My role will be to help streamline ops, bring in more awesome instructors (lmk if you are one 😎), and help the platform scale! #edtech #rshiny

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R-Ladies Cologne @rladies-cologne.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

🙌 We’re excited to host @veerle.hypebright.nl for our next meet-up: www.meetup.com/rladies-colo... LLMs sound confident, but tools make results reliable. Join us for insights, examples & tips! Click the link to register 👩‍💻 📅 December 19, 25 🕒 4:00 PM (CET) 📍 Online #RLadies #RStats #LLMs #ellmer

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✨When LLMs guess, tools know: tool calling in R with ellmer ✨, Fri, Dec 19, 2025, 4:00 PM | Meetup

R-Ladies Cologne are hosting another event! We are excited to have Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput with us, who will share her insights into the world of LLMs 🚀 **✨When LLMs

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 15/10/2025

Been a bit quiet here 🫢 Yes, part of the reason is that I still am on maternity leave (or parental leave, whatever you call it, my baby is 9.5 months old). So different priorities. But another reason is that I don’t like the short form format. I always have too much to tell 😂😅. Am I the only one?

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Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Loooove this post by @veerle.hypebright.nl on Shiny and LLMs! 🤖 shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/s... ⚡️ Handle requests asynchronously so multiple users don't block each other ⚡️ Provide visual feedback when components are loading ⚡️ Catch errors & display user-friendly messages #rstats #llms #shiny

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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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Posit @posit.co · 22/09/2025

💡 What happens when you take everything you've learned about LLMs… and turn it into an app people can actually use? In Part 3 of The Shiny Side of LLMs, we build DeckCheck — a Shiny app (#RStats & #Python) that acts like your Presentation Rehearsal Buddy. Read more 👉 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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Posit @posit.co · 05/09/2025

Announcing a new blog series on LLMs from @veerle.hypebright.nl! In Part 2, “Talking to LLMs: From Prompt to Response”, we get hands-on with LLM-powered apps. This guide is for #Python & #RStats users who want to go beyond the basics. Check it out here: shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/s...

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Posit @posit.co · 06/08/2025

Announcing a new blog series on LLMs from @veerle.hypebright.nl! Part 1: "What LLMs Actually Do (and What They Don't)" breaks down complex concepts like transformers, hallucinations, and RAG in simple terms. Check it out here: shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/s... #RStats #LLM #PythonProgramming

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Shiny - What LLMs Actually Do (and What They Don’t)

Shiny is a package that makes it easy to create interactive web apps using R and Python.

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 13/02/2025

I like blog posts with a good title 🦥- especially if they are about R and you can learn something new!

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 11/02/2025

Do you know which license to pick for your #rstats 📦? If not, you can always follow other devs! 🐑 On CRAN: 1️⃣ GPL-3 – 4918 📦 2️⃣ MIT + file LICENSE – 4904 3️⃣ GPL (>= 2) – 4284 4️⃣ GPL-2 – 2391 5️⃣ GPL (>= 3) – 2039 6️⃣ GPL – 449 7️⃣ GPL-2 | GPL-3 – 338 8️⃣ CC0 – 238 9️⃣ LGPL-3 – 179 🔟 Apache License (>= 2) – 145

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 20/01/2025

Great start of the week! 🤗 If you want to share your #rstats #rshiny mobile experience, you can reach out to Julian here: www.linkedin.com/posts/julian... And I would also love to hear about your mobile adventures, so keep me in the loop! 👀

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 14/01/2025

In today's spotlight: precommit 🪝 A pre-commit hook is like a checkpoint. If the hook finds a problem, it stops the commit and tells you what to fix. In #rstats, you can add pre-commit hooks with precommit 📦. Built on the pre-commit framework it provides useful hooks specifically for R.

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 13/01/2025

Baby news from the Netherlands: our son Senne was born two weeks ago! 👶🏻 And how cute is this @appsilon.bsky.social #rshiny Rhino onesie! 😍🦏 Thanks so much to the whole team there for this lovely package 🤗

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 07/01/2025

I’m having a thing with cheatsheets lately 🙃. This time I have a Linux cheatsheet for you! 🐧 If you work with Linux distros like Ubuntu/RHEL/Fedora, this might be handy. Endlessly hitting the “up” arrow, using "history", or browsing internet for the same command can be tiring… 😂. So here you go!

Linux cheatsheet for common distros, for navigating directories, file operations, system info, package management, permissions and more!

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 23/12/2024

Kids + #rstats = 😍 You just need to know which packages to choose so you don't scare them away with boring ML models or boxplots. For example: 🔹 beepr 🔹 fireworks 🔹 aRtsy 🔹 brickr 🔹 tictactoe 🔹 fun 🔹 cowsay 🔹 hexSticker 🔹 swirl 🔹 sudoko Full overview + examples 😀: www.linkedin.com/posts/veerle...

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput on LinkedIn: Fun R packages for kids

Fun R packages to check out with kids over the Holidays 🤩🎄 Children are always super impressed when they see people programming. All those letters and…

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 18/12/2024

This is so cool! 😎 and a fun little game too!

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 17/12/2024

Played around with pal last week, the new kid in town 🤖. You can use pal as your friend in RStudio and Positron (shown in the video). Some highlights 🧵👇🏻

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 16/12/2024

Shiny 1.10.0 just got released ✨ github.com/rstudio/shin... And pay attention to your warnings (as always of course 😇): “Duplicate input and output IDs … or shared IDs … now result in a console warning message, but not an error.”

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Release shiny 1.10.0 · rstudio/shiny

New features and improvements When busy indicators are enabled (i.e., useBusyIndicators() is in the UI), Shiny now: Shows the pulse indicator when dynamic UI elements are recalculating and no ot...

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 12/12/2024

First week of my maternity leave 🤗 And it’s not a short one: I’m taking 12 months! Not a “standard” thing to do in the Netherlands, where you get 16 weeks (minimum) or more depending on your employer. But I have the opportunity to do so now and I’m going to grab it. Time for family 💙.

Veerle sitting behind desk with a laptop, all ready for her maternity leave

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 10/12/2024

Another edition of Shiny Source Code Explained ✨🤓 And this time it is all about the code behind the new busy indicators that were added in Shiny 1.9 (July 2024)! hypebright.nl/en/shiny-en/... Enjoy! #rshiny #rstats

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Shiny Source Code Explained: Busy Indicators - Hypebright

Curious how Shiny busy indicators work? Take a closer look at the source code behind spinner overlays and pulsing banners, and find out!

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 09/12/2024

I can appreciate this 👌🏻 And with a little bit of work you could easily get this in your #rshiny app too 🤩 codepen.io/jkantner/pen...

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Impatiently Waiting

Sometimes even the app gets tired of waiting!...

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 06/12/2024

ICYMI: Shiny 1.9 (July '24) comes with busy indicators ✨. Two types: spinners on recalculating outputs, and a page-level pulsing banner when the app is busy with something else (side-effects). How it works? That's in next week's edition of "Shiny Source Code Explained" 😎 #rstats #rshiny

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 03/12/2024

The public beta version of Positron was released almost 6 months ago, and the team certainly hasn’t been idle! So what happened over the last half year? Is it worth switching? 👀 I definitely like where it's heading! Personal highlights: data explorer, command palette, help on hover + extensions 👇🏻📚

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 29/11/2024

Last in-person training before my maternity leave! I recently set up and configured a server with Posit Workbench for a Dutch municipality and in today’s training I’m giving them some tools and guidance to survive without me on the short term 😜. They mainly work with #rstats, but also #python 😎

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 28/11/2024

Bigggg Black Friday discount on all my #rshiny courses!✨ 50% off on all courses and the bundle which contains all 3 courses 🤗 ProductioniZing Shiny 👉🏻 athlyticz.com/shiny-ii Customizing WidgetZ 👉🏻 athlyticz.com/shiny-iii Mobile 👉🏻 athlyticz.com/shiny-mobile Bundle 😎 athlyticz.com/shiny-bundle

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Checkout | Lifetime Shiny Bundle

Unlock your data potential with our Shiny Courses Bundle! 150+ modules, 50+ hours video, 300+ R scripts!

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 26/11/2024

I have been playing around with brand.yml and Quarto 1.6 today 😎. As it happens I was making a revealjs presentation and with brand.yml, I could get rid of much of my custom SCSS, which is nice! I'm sooo looking forward to #rstats and Shiny for R support 😻

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 25/11/2024

That’s an awesome start of my week! 🤗 Julian completed my ProductioniZing Shiny course ✨ athlyticz.com/shiny-ii And since it’s Black Friday soon, we have something nice in the pipeline as well… More info later this week 👀

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 20/11/2024

I love some JavaScript! Especially to make Shiny apps even more awesome 🤩. But I know how daunting it can feel when you’re just getting started with #rshiny. That’s why I wrote a JavaScript for Shiny Beginner’s Guide—so you can jump in with confidence: hypebright.nl/en/shiny-en/...

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JavaScript for Shiny: A Beginner's Guide - Hypebright

Learn the essentials of JavaScript for Shiny with this quick tutorial. Everything you need to start leveraging JavaScript in your Shiny apps.

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 20/11/2024

This looks cool! Always good to have a pal for your favourite IDE 😎

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 17/11/2024

Working on something fun for next week ✨

MacBook displaying a draft version of a JavaScript for Shiny cheatsheet

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 12/11/2024

(1/2) Package highlight: elmer 🐘🎨 🔹 Call LLMs from common provides like OpenAI, Perplexity, Claud, Azure 🔹Interactive chat console, interactive method call or programmatic chat 🔹Stream results: receiving and processing data bit by bit as it arrives 🏎️ 🔹 You can extract structured data easily

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 11/11/2024

Looking for more ideas for my “Shiny Source Code Explained” blog post series 🤔 I have a few, but since I’m gearing up for my maternity leave I like to have some in the pipeline! So… Let me know all your #rshiny mysteries and I’ll try to solve them ✨🧙👇🏻

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 07/11/2024

Yay! New version of S7! Nice to see this project moving along 😎 I wrote a blog not too long ago on S7 👉🏻 hypebright.nl/index.php/20... I do like OOP, and S7 seems a nice mix between available OOP systems in #rstats, taking away some downsides from S3 and S4.

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S7: A New Object-Oriented Programming System in R - Hypebright

Discover how R, a functional language, supports object-oriented programming with the S7 class system for building structured objects.

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 05/11/2024

Why do I always choose wrong when using URLs in #markdown 😭 (Text)[url] is always my first choice, but of course, wrong [Text](url) is consequently my second choice, and correct, but somehow feels wrong 🙈

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 04/11/2024

I absolutely loved #Closeread for #Quarto when I heard about it at posit::conf(2024). And now there’s the Closeread Prize where you can show off your best scrollytelling skills 🤩🏆 posit.co/blog/closere... PS: I also love the word scrollytelling 🤓

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Closeread Prize Announcement - Scrollytelling with Quarto - Posit

Ever wanted to create impactful scrollytelling stories like the ones you see in online news? Scrollytelling stories let you explain complicated concepts to readers as they scroll down the page. You...

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

If anyone from the #pyladies or #rladies community has a blog or YouTube channel, feel free to add them here so that the @pyladies-bot.bsky.social and @rladies-bot.bsky.social can post about your content 🫶

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 01/11/2024

Free online uni seminar on #rshiny with a couple of lessons from my Shiny course! ✨👇🏻

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 31/10/2024

Regex can be scary 👻🎃, but it doesn’t have to be! Enjoy this updated version of the ”Ultimate Cheatsheet for Regex in R” to make regex less spooky 👇🏻💀 For #rstats and other languages like #python #julia and #javascript

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 31/10/2024

If you never want to miss content from your favourite R and Python ladies 🤗👇🏻

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 30/10/2024

I know what I’m going to read from top to bottom during my maternity leave 👀 (that and a lot of baby related reads 😂)

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Simon P. Couch @simonpcouch.com · 29/10/2024

Some news: I've just open-sourced the draft of a book I'm working on about how #rstats tidymodels users can make their code run faster without sacrificing predictive performance! www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2024-10...

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 29/10/2024

Testing is annoying, but at least you can automate it 🫡 I just gave a 10-minute crash course on automated testing with GitHub Actions (and it was a fasttttt one ⚡️). testthat, covr, shinytest2, all the #rstats goodies. Slides: hypebright.github.io/rpharma-2024... Repo: github.com/hypebright/R...

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Automated Testing - Automated Testing with GitHub Actions

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 29/10/2024

R/Pharma conference 🎥 Rainy afternoon 🌧️ Favourite tea cup 🐶

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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 29/10/2024

Been a while since I posted here, but #rstats seems to have found its way (back?) here 😎. So I'm going to hop on again too! On today's program: R/Pharma 🎉 . I'm giving a lightning talk about automated testing with GitHub Actions. You can still register here (it's free!): rinpharma.com

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R/Pharma

R/Pharma. The conference for all things R related in the Pharma industry

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