Next Tuesday (Feb 17), join the SLC RUG to hear from David B. Dahl about using Rust in #rstats packages! 🦀 www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...

Commenting on PRs is broken. Time to just merge PRs.

My wife hates apps in favor of hand-writing grocery lists. I have not the attention span to remember what I have already procured from the list or how to best navigate our grocery store to get the items. I built an app to solve this…

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

Exciting update for #Jupyter and Notebook centric users in #Positron ! posit.co/blog/announc... #PositronIDE #PyData #DataBS

The latest monthly release of Positron has a BRAND NEW editor for `.ipynb` available for early alpha testing! 📒 I am excited about what Positron is going to offer Jupyter notebook users in terms of truly "batteries included" IDE integration: posit.co/blog/announc...

I had such a good time speaking at @atds.space this year! All the talks were great & the videos are now online, including mine on demystifying AI code assistance, i.e. what is actually going on when you use a tool like Claude Code or GitHub Copilot or Positron Assistant?! youtu.be/u0JBMGlzcGw?...

Frivolous post: "Parallel strands between learning crochet and learning programming" 🧶 masalmon.eu/2026/01/26/a...

"LLMs [only] do a great job at interpreting plots that _don't_ contradict their expectations—it's sort of antithetical to the spirit of science." - @mike-thomas.bsky.social. Thanks for the coverage, yall! More on @sara-altman.bsky.social and I's bluffbench eval: posit.co/blog/llm-plo...

I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal

it only took a year but I'm back with more information about my Positron setup! This time I'm going over my Extensions and Settings emilhvitfeldt.com/post/positro...

Whenever I read discourse on AI energy/water use that focuses on the "median query," I can't help but feel misled. Coding agents like Claude Code send hundreds of longer-than-median queries every session, and I run dozens of sessions a day. On my blog: www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01...

The latest release of #Positron has a TOTAL REVAMP of the integration to GitHub Copilot, which solves a ton of auth problems! In this screencast, I walk through how to set up Positron Assistant 🤖 to use GitHub Copilot as a model provider: youtu.be/T8dCQ6iIFXo

I sent 200 pull requests using Claude Code and wrote about the experience. It's pretty wild! For dplyr releases, we send a PR any time we break an #rstats package. This release advances a lot of deprecated functions, triggering issues in many old packages! blog.davisvaughan.com/posts/2026-0...

❗️Our next workshop will be on Jan 15 , 6 pm CET titled R package development in Positron by @stephenturner.us Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

I was at Texas A&M in the late 90s and EVERY TIME I see a news item about it now, I know I’m about to be embarrassed 🙈

Good morning. I'd like to invite anyone who is interested to make a small gesture of kindness today. It's up to you to decide what that can be. The key is for you to act on the idea. With so much out of our control, we can choose how to be with each other today and every day.

what you clearly see, CLEARLY, is a driver who is spooked by the agents grabbing her door, takes steps to drive away, and is immediately shot as moves her vehicle *away* from the agents.

Come join us to hear some #rstats lightning talks!

Join the SLC RUG tomorrow for a set of #rstats lightning talks! ⚡ www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...

I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time. It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.

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In this edition of the @posit.co AI Newsletter, some 🎄Year In Review🎄, notes on GPT 5.2, and an experimental AI product for RStudio users. posit.co/blog/2025-12...

I see a lot of complaints about untested AI slop in pull requests. Submitting those is a dereliction of duty as a software engineer: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/...

Thinking about running local models with coding agents like Positron Assistant? 💻 A new evaluation by @simonpcouch.com and @sara-altman.bsky.social suggests we aren't there yet. Between hardware hurdles and performance gaps, hosted models are still the best bet for now. posit.co/blog/local-m...

Huge thanks to @posit.co and hosts @mchow.com and @wesmckinney.com for having me on The Test Set!!! posit.co/thetestset/e... My favorite part was learning that I've been pronouncing "pandas" correctly all along. I've never felt more vindicated. And y'all are wrong about candy corn. 😜

I get the appeal of local LLMs—free, private, no big tech. That said, they're not yet ready to power coding agents like Positron Assistant or Databot. www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2025-12...

The LLM privacy question comes up (rightly so) on every data community call I'm on. I've had sooo many questions myself. #databs #rstats #pydata Good resource: posit.co/blog/trust-l... Also, have you seen side::kick in RStudio? simonpcouch.github.io/side/

The newest edition of the @posit.co AI Newsletter is out! Some notes on TOON, several open source updates, and a callout to two recent blog posts from @sara-altman.bsky.social and I. posit.co/blog/2025-11...

Join us now to learn something about snow and statistics!

If you are a local SLC data person, join me and other folks this Saturday, Nov 15, at Big Mountain Data & Dev, a free, one-day conference with a broad scope! 🏔️ I'm looking forward both to speaking myself and to learning about the wide variety of topics: www.utahgeekevents.com/events/big-m...

The recording of my #rstats posit::conf talk ✨ practical {renv}✨ is available! 🎉 I created this talk for frustrated {renv} users 🫠 and potential {renv} users🤩 youtu.be/l01u7Ue9pIQ?... Even if {renv} isn't on your radar, you may still find this talk interesting if you are curious about🤔...

Join the SLC RUG next Wed, Nov 19 to hear from Brennan Bean about using #rstats to study snow loads! ❄️ www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...

My talk from posit::conf earlier this fall on getting unstuck with #Python is now available to watch! - Ten years ago, I attempted to learn Python and it went EXTRMELY badly 😩 - I am really happy that so much tooling in this area has improved SO much since then 😌 youtu.be/pMVYl9fx1EE

My keynote about data science tools at posit::conf is now online! I originally meant it to be a talk about Positron, but as I was writing it, it took a left turn through the history of RStudio and into the philosophy of tool design & how to build stuff for people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGre...

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

It was such a pleasure to join @hadley.nz, @wesmckinney.com, and @mchow.com on THE TEST SET! You can check out the two parts of our conversation here: 🍕 posit.co/thetestset/e... 🤖 posit.co/thetestset/e...

@juliasilge.com on a podcast is a must-listen ❤️❤️❤️

I was so pleased to join the @atds.space podcast to talk about my own career journey, how astronomy prepared me for working in data science, plus what I'm working on now! 💫 youtu.be/qXoxWt7YGmE

I'm excited to share a new version of the Air formatter for #rstats, with support for tabular formatting! Super useful with `tibble::tribble()` calls or `data.table::fcase()`. It's currently experimental as we're looking to get feedback on the feature, so please let us know what you think.

A number of people have told me this piece has been useful for them, maybe it will be for you, too — a simple description of the consensus view on AI amongst actual tech practitioners, presented as a tool for those who need to push back on the distorted narratives that tycoons are feeding media.

There is a new monthly release of #Positron available, and it delivers fresh new features for the Data Explorer! In this screencast, I walk through how to interactively explore a recent #TidyTuesday dataset on literary prizes 📚📖🏆 using some of the Data Explorer newness. youtu.be/KOgQuWF0US4

oooh new version of Positron just released and it has (1) github copilot chat and (2) automatic {dplyr} code generation based on filtering/sorting/etc that you do in the data viewer #rstats

Join us here in about 5 min to learn about #rstats functions! 🥳

I'm giving a talk next week about my favourite thing: functions! Come along! What: Practical Functions - Practically Magic When: 8th/9th October - www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f... Where: Online, via Salt Lake City R User Group www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even... How: @juliasilge.com #rstats

Join the SLC RUG on Oct 7 (next Tuesday!) to hear from @njtierney.aus.social.ap.brid.gy about how to write good #rstats functions 💫 www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...

A data scientist and product owner shares her take on why the new Positron IDE is a game-changer for her workflow. Learn how Dr. Claire Welsh of The Strategy Unit uses Positron to streamline everything from project management to documentation. Read her insights: posit.co/blog/positro...

AI has real risks & we should have smart & evolving policy to manage them. By focusing the public's mind on very low probability/"high" consequence extinction events from super-intelligent AI, it slides acceptable windows of what bad things humans can do with AI right now (eg discrimination/disinfo)

If you are an #rstats user in the greater SLC area, join us IN PERSON next Tues, Sept 30 for some networking and data science chat! We are meeting at a place called Thieves Guild Cidery, which, yes, is a DnD-themed tavern. ⚔️🎲🐉 www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...

"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭 anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...