Observable Notebook Kit & Desktop 1.4 now support TypeScript cells, along with TypeScript for Node.js data loader cells. (Just type stripping, but greatly helps interoperability.)

New episode of my Audiolog: audiolog.jamesking.io/2025-09-10/

New blog post: jamesking.io/2025/09/10/i...

Big fan of @observablehq.com and since their preview release of Observable Notebooks 2.0 my team at Fora Health have integrated Notebook Kit into our app. Works really well so far. Quick demo ⬇️ screen.studio/share/TqvyfFbU

New blog post: Failing to reproduce Axelrod, 1980 Today I learned that a foundational result in game theory hasn’t been successfully reproduced, and not from lack of trying. jamesking.io/2025/09/02/f...

This thread is a really good short summary/review of the Unaccountability Machine by Dan Davies.

Notebooks 2.0 is here! 📓🔮 Previewing today:
Notebook Kit, an open file format for notebooks with open-source tooling for generating static sites; and
Observable Desktop, a macOS desktop application for editing notebooks as local files, with a radical new approach to AI. observablehq.com/notebooks/2/

It’s the Aquired podcast format applied to drug discovery. That’s a very good thing.

Excellent video on whether retinol is a scam — there are only few low quality RCTs, why would one still believe in it? — and it’s so good, talking about various incentives and the role of mechanistic knowledge. I’ll have to think about how to fit this into teaching!> m.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Z5...

@mmtpodcast.bsky.social your intro to MMT at the start of the latest episode was excellent. Such a good distillation. 👏

An interview with @stephaniekelton.bsky.social about DOGE, Trump, crypto, tariffs, inflation, the collapse of the rule of law, and more. "We don't have two years" to wait for Democrats to rally, she says. "You won't be able to pick up the pieces." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/stephanie-...