This Calibri story is wild when you consider the US Government designed and open sourced a far better looking sans serif font, Public Sans (public-sans.digital.gov) www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Svelte...in Quarto!?! This extension by @jamesgoldie.dev looks wonderful! quarto-svelte.jamesgoldie.dev

If you missed my talk but still want some tips for writing good code for scientists, my slides are here: daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w... All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏 #ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub

dev.to/aws-builders... Building serverless apps on AWS typically involves using DynamoDB for a database as it's truly serverless. It is somewhat difficult to start with and the interface isn't super easy to navigate. The recent multi-attribute composite key support is a big win for us. (1️⃣/4️⃣) 🧵

Severe Tropical #CycloneFina - now category 3 - over Van Diemen Gulf, north east of Darwin. www.bom.gov.au/warning/trop...

Australian #databs #datascience jobs 👀

Anyone know of a better solution for Google Chat on the desktop than the web app? The web app is really rough around the edges. Would love to sideload the iOS app, even though I'd lose the Google Meet integration.

Everyone is talking about AI and ignoring the biggest technological innovation of our time: the Bureau of Meteorology finally setting up SSL

Real excited that @vscode.dev can do OS notifications when Tasks finish now. I've been wanting this one for years — plenty of #rstats devs who want to be able to minimise their code editor while a chunky analysis runs!

My weekly newsletter is out! This week’s agenda: 🔹 Open Source of the Week - The quarto-svelte project 🔹 New learning resources - 🔹 Book of the week - R for Economic Research (second edition) by J. Renato Leripio ramikrispin.substack.com/p/issue-56-r... #rstats #ai #machinelearning #quartopub

Totally forgot that @jamesgoldie.dev is working on integrating Svelte and Quarto / R! github.com/jimjam-slam/...

There’s a special place in hell for Matter appliance manufacturers who put the pairing code in the box and not on the device itself (or, better yet, both)

There’s so much packed into plumber2, it looks rad as hell. Serving parameterised Quarto reports off an API endpoint with a single tag… so cool!

🚨#datavis Job alert 🚨 Fancy working with us in London as a researcher using @observablehq.com Plot for accessible #datavis? To support people with language disability in the use of data visualization for everyday decision making. www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...

Day 2 of WOMBAT is ✨ single stream talks ✨, you'll be hearing from speakers like: @nrennie.bsky.social, @jamesgoldie.dev, @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social, @cynthiahqy.bsky.social and @harriet-mason.bsky.social and more! See all speakers: wombat2025.numbat.space/program/work... Hope to see you there!

Come along to OceaniaR in Canberra! Why? Because we'll talk about fun things you can do with #rstats all day, and work on fun projects. It's an inclusive space, with a great mix of those newer to R, as well as experienced users, too! Some examples from last year:

I'm happy to report the most important transition works perfectly simple-vt-demos.jakearchibald.com/batman-trans...

Make errors more accessible and better with #rstats package {more} by @milesmcbain.bsky.social - inspired by rustc's detailed error explanations! This idea feels so good. github.com/milesmcbain/...

THANK you so much for all your likes and shares this week. It has been super fun! I would love to connect with people who doing cool things in data, PLEASE follow me at @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social Check out my website jenrichmond.github.io and Linkedin www.linkedin.com/in/jenrichmo...

Signing off by saying that I am looking for a NEW job!! 📊 I get genuinely excited about data and creating #rstats visualizations that tell stories 🤯 I'm really good at taking complex technical stuff and making it click for people 💪 I love spotting gaps and creating things to fill them

Registration for @wombat.numbat.space is open — come along and let’s talk about scrollytelling and telling stories with data!

OK @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social you are a day ahead of yourself. Things that make #rstats feel magic is my rocur theme for TOMORROW. But this is definitely magic: drag and drop to move and resize images in revealjs slides- you are a wizard!!

Register today for your spot in the 2025 OceaniaR Hackathon in Canberra This event is a great opportunity to learn and participate in a range of projects around data analysis, statistics, data science and R programming. Register here: statsocaus.github.io/oceaniar-hac... #rstats #datascience

Hi folks 👋 Come to WOMBAT 2025, my favourite conference! Day 1: affordable tutorials Day 2: single-stream talks Max 100 ppl: actually meet and interact with everyone And (!!) I'll be running a half-day intro to R packages, aimed at new/intermediate #rstats users. wombat2025.numbat.space

100% agree + #RStats WebR works in Notebooks 2.0 & Desktop! I went into some detail abt Notebooks & Desktop this past week: dailydrop.hrbrmstr.dev/2025/07/31/d...

It's been a while since I last shared my starter pack If you're a stats/data person in or from the Pacific region (not just Australia or Aotearoa) and would like to be included, please let me know! #statssky #episky #databs #rstats #python

I would call myself a professional pessimist and "extremely depressed about the future" but god, please stop going into people's mentions to tell them that the law/courts no longer matter or post "AND YOU'RE SURPRISED???" at them, especially so if they are actively engaged in making the world better

Absolutely blown away that my colleagues and I at CounterCurrent, along with the folks at Rainstick, are the first Aussie winners of AWS + IRCAI's Compute for Climate Fellowship. I'm super excited about the work we're doing 🥳 countercurrent.ai/news/2025-07...

#webR now has shareable links! Just like #Shinylive's editor, you can instantly share #rstats code snippets with colleagues. Thanks to @gws.phd (webR creator) for adding this awesome feature to webR Latest (0.5.4-dev)! Try it out with this demo snippet: webr.r-wasm.org/latest/#code...

So as a mea culpa for breaking DRY coding principles, here is a little write up of less well known but incredibly useful purrr function; partial() Let's see an applied example in how to create a function factory Let's get started! #rstats 1/n

One small feature of @duckdb.org that I really love is the flexibility of its CLI. It's amazing enough that Duck can read and write CSV, JSON, Excel, Parquet and a heap of other formats so portably, but the CLI flags for output format let it replace a wide set of CLI tools.

I rly hope @observablehq.com Plot never goes away (along with Framework). It makes dashboarding so stupid easy. Just added some new things to the internal alpha site before we put this up as another Viz Experiment.

Sverto is now quarto-svelte! But that's not all — there's a new release of quarto-svelte, with Svelte 5 support! The release is packed with bug fixes and is easier to use than ever! #Svelte + @quarto.org = 🤯 github.com/jimjam-slam/... #quarto #quartopub

R's graphics engine is getting variable font support! #RStats developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/...

Testing out iPadOS 26 and I’m seriously considering switching on extra contrast. The glass is pretty but really adds a lot of detail that feels like it increases cognitive load 😮‍💨

Using `make` to compile C programs (for non-C-programmers) jvns.ca/blog/2025/06...

Check them all out: Australia: isithotrightnow.com UK: istheukhotrightnow.com Spain: hoyextremo.com Germany: scp.geographie.rub.de/isithot/lmss @roostweather.bsky.social @edhawkins.org @jamesgoldie.dev danielargueso.com Steefan Contractor Jonas Kittner

Is it hot right now in the UK? New interactive website allowing anyone to explore live temperatures hour-by-hour across the UK, and whether they are cool, warm or hot relative to normal. istheukhotrightnow.com Built by @roostweather.bsky.social.

Oh cool! I love that the concept behind @mlip.bsky.social, Steefan Contractor (are they here?) and @jamesgoldie.dev's isithotrightnow.com is going global. It's such a brilliant idea and so well executed.

Love that I'm building a growing family of Teams organisations that I cannot sign into, cannot sign out of and cannot remove with any amount of reinstalling or Keychain-nuking 😮‍💨 Also great to be kicked back to the login screen every other time I refocus the window, 10/10

Last week I had the pleasure of finally releasing the #SveltePlot alpha version during my talk at the #SvelteSummit in Barcelona. It's a new visualization framework for @svelte.dev that I've been working on for the past 18 months, so it's about time for a 🧵

let me plug a usb keyboard in and run #rstats on this thing, you cowards

This would be a great opportunity for a foundation/university to step in, open source these products, and maybe even make them better and more useful.

FOLKS WE DID IT ✅ I'm typing this on @aviva.gay's deer.social ✅ which posted to @alnkq.bsky.social's AppViewLite ✅ which is listening to the @blacksky.app atproto.africa relay

Okay, @sunderfolk.com is outrageous fun. Between this and Split Fiction, it’s a great time for couch co-op games youtu.be/FK-mZdoR5dU?...

quite like this explainer on how preferences work from ninefax www.smh.com.au/interactive/...

This is a v nice intro to Julia for #rstats or #python users from @coatless.bsky.social (ashamed to say I still haven’t given Julia a proper go!)

New unhinged #rstats rant about NSE just dropped: 🔗 kbodwin.github.io/paRticles/po... tl;dr - some cute (?) tricks for iterating over unquoted columns see below to skip the stream-of-consiousness blog and go straight to code snippets

Pleeeeeeeaaaaaase