On taste: mine has become markedly less jagged with age. At this point it's essentially boiled down to You Must Believe in Spring. I'm not even ashamed to confess that I was led there by Monocle 10 years ago.

The Silicon Valley idea of taste is about as advanced as its idea of intelligence.

pdit: The Python Un-Notebook for Coding Agents - harry.vangberg.name/posts/pdit-t...

Today in pdit: a script to check if the conditions are good for a two-day sailing trip from Jutland to Anholt.

I made this kid's music player app for the iPad 3 years ago, nobody used it, and I removed it from the App Store at least a year ago to avoid paying the Developer Program fee, and yet, it seems like there's a single user somewhere out there who keeps using it, week after week. Warms my heart.

Today's slightly weird pdit use case: trying out different window configurations for a house renovation.

pdit 0.7: streaming output - pdit.dev/news/pdit-0-...

I've built an entirely new, 100% native, extendable, themeable, modal cmd-space launcher for macOS. 🍣 Meet Tuna. tunaformac.com

I put a coding agent inside the browser with a single `execute_javascript` tool. Open HTML files -> make changes -> save back to HTML. The HTML file is the source code, the code environment, the app, the data store, everything at once.

I guess I am building a coding agent. Right now. Welp.

I got tired of copying skills and slash commands around when switching between Claude and Codex, so now they are just short sections in AGENTS.md - works fine?

pdit 0.6.0: Top-level f-strings renders as Markdown + images rendered with IPython.display.Image respects height+width. pdit.dev/news/pdit-0-... #python

Tonight in pdit-land: helping me understand 95% confidence intervals for the 95th time.

I've heard that decorators are pretty important in Python … so now they work in pdit as well 😅 pdit.dev/news/pdit-0-...

I just released pdit, an output-focused Python editor. pdit takes any regular Python scripts and shows the output side-by-side with the code that generated it. Think of it as a lightweight notebook or REPL for your scripts. Try it right now: `uvx --with "pdit[demo]" pdit --demo` -- pdit.dev

Mob programming, but with coding agents.

Post a game you remember playing that nobody remembers: Bonk's Adventure on Amiga 1000

I'm a jj convert.

If you ever need to explain everything that is wrong with Danish with a single picture. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Trying something else.

Grew, and subsequently saw in a microscope, my first E.coli today. Life altering?

I added assignments to the output pane, even though they are technically invisible in R. How often have I not done `my_var <- …; my_var`? It's also consistent – all outputs are in one place, and in the same order as the code. Principle of least astonishment. #rstats

We have errors, console outputs and ggplot. Getting ggplots printed correctly was surprisingly difficult – the logic of R's top-level printing is … finicky: yihui.org/en/2017/06/t... #rstats

dwm is still goat

Reading about Jujutsu gave me an idea: maybe bakepipe could simply be a frontend for targets, in the same way jj is a frontend to git? No need to reinvent an execution engine, when what I really care about is how to define the pipeline.

Day 4 – we have plots (and today the workspace was my dining room)

Day 3 of building a friendly R editor (and today's workspace)

🌟 Spotlight on @harry.vangberg.name‬! SNP to primers pairs — no more BLAST backlogs. This notebook fetches the SNP’s flanking sequence from Ensembl, designs primers via Primer3 and runs local BLAST — all in under ~5 s per tweak. Try it → harry.vangberg.name/posts/autom...

Since CRAN rejected my Bakepipe submission, I guess it is vacay time. See you all in August, where I will see how far I can get on this slightly weird idea for an R development environment I have. Tschüss!

Can anybody get Claude Code in VS Code to *reliably* use `terminal-notifier` when it needs user input?

I wrote some code to automate PCR primer design on your local computer with Primer3, BLASTN and @marimo.io – harry.vangberg.name/posts/automa...

Should I complicate the API with `external_in()` to catch this sort-of niche scenario, or keep it simple (but sort of incorrect) with `file_in()`? – github.com/vangberg/bak...

"This is amazing" – www.reddit.com/r/Rlanguage/...

Bakepipe 0.1 is ready, complete with automatic dependency detection + incremental execution. Installable with `devtools`, CRAN later – github.com/vangberg/bak...

Of course – you don't need the GitHub Issue -> Markdown tool. Just ask Claude to pull context from the GitHub issue.

I thought incremental builds would have to wait for 0.2, but here we are.

Getting there!

Claude Code works! Here's the impl. of a DAG: github.com/vangberg/bak.... Spent some time building context in a GH Issue (github.com/vangberg/bak...) inspired by @simonwillison.net (simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/26/... – great talk) and dumped it as context with tools.simonwillison.net/github-issue...

0.3 is out, skipping images that are already on disk. This should make it much faster if you have many observations. I am up to 36 observations, here's a recent favourite – a cowslip. It has a great name in Danish, "hulkravet kodriver".

It's dark outside, how good is this?

Tell me this isn't a real project.

I am technically preparing for a linear algebra exam, but took a break to flesh out the README for bakepipe, my vaporware R pipeline library. I am aiming to get 0.1 out later this month. Would love your thoughts. github.com/vangberg/bak...

I vibe-coded a tiny tool to export @inaturalist.bsky.social observations to Ankivalenz-formatted Markdown, so my backyard observations can easily be turned into Anki cards. github.com/vangberg/ina...

Bonnie A. Nardi (1993) A Small Matter of Programming

niri (github.com/YaLTeR/niri) makes me want to switch to Linux. My personal note-taking app is basically a badly implemented tiling window manager. Would be much easier to just let a window manager handle that. App could be replaced by a number of smaller single-window apps. `edit`, `search`.

A tiny pattern: create image occlusion cards in Anki with Ankivalenz, my Markdown-to-Anki tool.