Garrick Aden-Buie
@grrrck.xyz
r + python + data + web things. team shiny at posit (rstudio). open source all the things https://garrickadenbuie.com https://github.com/gadenbuie
This is a good take. When was the last time you wanted dark or light mode just for one site? My blog is just not that special. Neither are my package docs.
Sam Littlefair@littlefair.ca · yesterdayMy hot take is that this isn’t a web concern. No toggle. Always respect system preference. Push vendors to put per-site toggles in the browser settings.
This is a good thread to pull on. Let me think it through, because I believe the worry actually points at where the framing genuinely belongs — and where it doesn't.
Garrick Aden-Buie@grrrck.xyz · 3w agoThat's a really important question, and I want to answer it factually rather than hand-wave.
That's a really important question, and I want to answer it factually rather than hand-wave.
If you've ever been curious about how to use claude code skills, check out @pingfanhu.bsky.social's recent post. He shows how to leverage skills to encapsulate complex workflows and achieve impressively consistent outputs from agents. pingfanhu.com/blog/2026-06...
Agentic Skills – Pingfan Hu
My approach to agentic skills and how I build them around my own practice.
pingfanhu.com
OTOH sharing a link to a chat with Claude is a lot less rude than sending them a letmegooglethat.com link
Grace@gracekind.net · 2mo agoI also haven’t found a non-rude way to say “you can ask Claude that question” even though it’s sometimes the right advice
How can you get better R code out of Claude, ChatGPT/Codex, Gemini, and other generative AI? These tips have worked for me: www.infoworld.com/article/4184... #Rstats #R #GenAI #LLMs
10 tips for getting better R code from your AI coding agent
With the proper setup and guidance, you can have Claude Code, Codex, Posit Assistant, and other coding agents writing R code like a pro. Here’s how.
infoworld.com
I'm thrilled to share that #querychat now supports more exploratory visualization powered by #ggsql. We're excited about what this direction can unlock for data scientists looking to curate "tidy" data for others explore. Expect more on this in the coming months. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...
Ask more of your dashboard with querychat and ggsql
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...
opensource.posit.co
🤩 love this hex sticker!
Palaeoverse@palaeoverse.bsky.social · 2mo agopalaeoverse is a community-driven R package of generic functions to help streamline palaeobiological analyses and improve code readability and reproducibility. This is our last version before a major refactor in Autumn, supported by funding from the @softwaresaved.bsky.social.
When we started working on Positron, we began by asking "what did we always want to do in RStudio, but couldn't"? Years of community upvotes on RStudio's issue tracker helped us form that wishlist. Here's how some big ideas made their way to Positron: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...
RStudio's Top Feature Requests ... In Positron
Many of the most upvoted RStudio feature requests are already implemented in Positron, and we explore ten of them.
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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
Emil Hvitfeldt@emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhipped up this little silly website. I always wanted to have an infinite hex grid, and now it is a reality! emilhvitfeldt.github.io/posit-hex-gr... #rstats
Just found a tiny GitHub Action you can add to your repos that will automatically compress images when you add or update them! bsky.app/profile/bens...
Yihui Xie@yihui.org · 3mo agoAll CRAN source packages (22749 tarballs as of today) contain 5.8Gb PNG images in total. Lossless compression via tinyimg::tinyping() can save 1.9Gb (32.0% savings), and lossy compression without noticeable differences can save 2.8Gb (48.2%): pkg.yihui.org/tinyimg/exam... (plot on the page is slow)
Async R gets a proper memory model. mirai 2.7.0 and mori 0.2.0 on CRAN: - byte-level dispatcher queue cap: `daemons(memory = ...)` - non-blocking submit on a full queue: `try_mirai()` - mori out of experimental – zero-copy shared memory across processes opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05... #rstats
A memory model for production async R: mirai 2.7.0 and mori 0.2.0
Two CRAN releases extend R's foundations for production async: bounded queues and `try_mirai()` in mirai 2.7.0, plus mori 0.2.0 graduating from experimental status.
opensource.posit.co
"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and "tiktok.com" was the quaint shared homepage of a couple as their relationship progressed from dating to married with a baby (2000). THREAD!!!
Do you use agent skills? I don't, but I sure would like to know how to create, find, and use them 👀 so it's a good thing Garrick will be hanging out with us and showing us the ropes! Side note: Isabella makes all these cute little DS Lab cover images and I just love them! ❤️ the lil "grad" Claude 🥹
Isabella Velásquez@ivelasq3.bsky.social · 3mo agoTomorrow, @grrrck.xyz is joining us to show how to build agent skills from scratch! 🤖 He’ll be walking through how to create the instructions and scripts that give agents specialized knowledge, including how to get the LLM to write the skills for you 👀 Register here: pos.it/dslab
Tomorrow, @grrrck.xyz is joining us to show how to build agent skills from scratch! 🤖 He’ll be walking through how to create the instructions and scripts that give agents specialized knowledge, including how to get the LLM to write the skills for you 👀 Register here: pos.it/dslab
R version 4.6.0 "Because it was There" (source version) has been released. It should be on CRAN by now. #rstats The choice of codename is in remembrance of R Core member Tomàš Kalibera (1978-2026). Among many other things, he was a keen mountain climber.
IT'S AN INTERFACE FOR INFORMATION IT'S NOT THE INFORMATION
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
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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large large language model the size of a small large language model
affine@refinement.systems · 4mo agotiny large language models
There is going to be a big wave of "omg what if you didn't treat this as an answer machine" "what if we rediscover active learning" commentary from CS in about six months, especially the voices currently describing everything as "brain rot and cognitive decline," and I'm already a bit tired
Ted Underwood@tedunderwood.com · 4mo agoConcern about the cognitive effects of LMs is based on the premise that they're an answer machine. And they can definitely be used that way. But I think ppl who are using models to solve actual problems (not homework problems) experience the tech as a free-writing, dialogue, and revision machine. +
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...
Maëlle Salmon@masalmon.eu · 4mo agoI 💚 this especially the first one: "The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code" by Ally Piechowski piechowski.io/post/git-com...
We have summer internships y'all! Come work at Posit on the PyData, tidymodels, shiny, or Connect teams: grnh.se/tigz810a3us. You will have an awesome time, learn a ton, and help advance our open source and pro tools 🧰 #rstats #pydata
We’re thrilled to welcome Sara Altman and Simon Couch of the Posit AI Core team to the #positconf 2026 keynote stage! They’ll be sharing a practical, hype-free look at how AI is being thoughtfully integrated into the tools you use every day. ✨ See what’s next for AI in open source: pos.it/conf
Not sure how we went from plain, straightforward words to LinkedIn speak but now you can use Kagi Translate to fit right into that crowd: translate.kagi.com?from=en&to=L...
The flip side of this for enterprise Claude users is getting work done early east coast hours before the west coast wakes up
SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social · 5mo agoamusingly anthropic gets less available in the evening because, so far as i can tell, every single software engineer in america is spamming their servers to death with their hobby projects and then going to bed while it runs
Does anybody here use `gh` with 1password and have a good way to let Claude Code use `gh` without constantly needing my fingerprint?
