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Building data science tools
@posit.co
,
#rstats
, parenthood ✨📊✨
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...
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Developing Rust-Based R Packages Using the Roxido Framework, Tue, Feb 17, 2026, 12:00 PM | Meetup
Our February Meetup will be a remote gathering; the Zoom link will be posted the week before the event. Rust is a modern systems language that combines C-class performance
https://www.meetup.com/slc-rug/events/312916493/
2 days ago
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Kyle Kelley
4 days ago
Commenting on PRs is broken. Time to just merge PRs.
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Nick Strayer
6 days ago
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…
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Davis Vaughan
9 days ago
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...
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dplyr 1.2.0
dplyr 1.2.0 fills in some important gaps in dplyr's API: we've added a new complement to `filter()` focused on dropping rows, and we've expanded the `case_when()` family with three new recoding and re...
https://tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02/dplyr-1-2-0/
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Tom Mock
10 days ago
Exciting update for
#Jupyter
and Notebook centric users in
#Positron
!
posit.co/blog/announc...
#PositronIDE
#PyData
#DataBS
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Announcing the Positron Notebook Editor for Jupyter Notebooks - Posit
The Positron Notebook Editor in alpha provides a "batteries-included" experience that combines the simplicity of Jupyter with the power of a purpose-built data science IDE.
https://posit.co/blog/announcing-the-positron-notebook-editor-for-jupyter-notebooks/
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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...
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Announcing the Positron Notebook Editor for Jupyter Notebooks - Posit
The Positron Notebook Editor in alpha provides a "batteries-included" experience that combines the simplicity of Jupyter with the power of a purpose-built data science IDE.
https://posit.co/blog/announcing-the-positron-notebook-editor-for-jupyter-notebooks/
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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?...
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Talk Session 3 for ATDS 8
YouTube video by Astronomers Turned Data Scientists
https://youtu.be/u0JBMGlzcGw?si=zsUw-VFQiZ0E0QCO&t=3166
10 days ago
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Maëlle Salmon
18 days ago
Frivolous post: "Parallel strands between learning crochet and learning programming" 🧶
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Parallel strands between learning crochet and learning programming · Maëlle's R Blog
https://masalmon.eu/2026/01/26/amigurumi/
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Simon P. Couch
16 days ago
"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...
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Better Things Are Possible
19 days ago
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
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Emil Hvitfeldt
24 days ago
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...
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Positron: My Extensions and Settings
Positron is a new and existing IDE for data science. All my extensions and settings I use to improve my experience.
https://emilhvitfeldt.com/post/positron-settings-extensions/
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Simon P. Couch
24 days ago
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...
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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
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Use GitHub Copilot with Positron Assistant
YouTube video by Julia Silge
https://youtu.be/T8dCQ6iIFXo
24 days ago
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Davis Vaughan
about 1 month ago
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...
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Semi-automating 200 Pull Requests with Claude Code – Davis Vaughan
https://blog.davisvaughan.com/posts/2026-01-09-claude-200-pull-requests/
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Dariia Mykhailyshyna
about 1 month ago
❗️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
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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 🙈
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about 1 month ago
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Prisonculture
about 1 month ago
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.
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jamelle
about 1 month ago
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.
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Come join us to hear some
#rstats
lightning talks!
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about 1 month ago
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Join the SLC RUG tomorrow for a set of
#rstats
lightning talks! ⚡
www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...
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Community Lightning Talks, Wed, Jan 7, 2026, 12:00 PM | Meetup
Our January Meetup will be a remote gathering; the Zoom link will be posted the week of the event. In this meeting, we will hear 5-7 minute lightning talks from our SLC RU
https://www.meetup.com/slc-rug/events/311880837/
about 1 month ago
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
about 1 month ago
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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Endless Screaming
about 1 month ago
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Simon P. Couch
about 2 months ago
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...
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2025-12-19 AI Newsletter - Posit
In this edition of the Posit AI Newsletter, we dive into the most important AI news and research from the past two weeks. Curated for the data science community, we cover everything from model updates...
https://posit.co/blog/2025-12-19-ai-newsletter/
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Simon Willison
about 2 months ago
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/...
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Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of …
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/code-proven-to-work/
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Posit
about 2 months ago
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...
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Local models are not there (yet) - Posit
LLMs that can run on your laptop are not yet capable enough to drive coding agents.
https://posit.co/blog/local-models-are-not-there-yet/
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Kelly Bodwin
2 months ago
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. 😜
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Episode 11 : Kelly Bodwin — Quarto hacks, AI in the classroom, and why R should stay weird - Posit
https://posit.co/thetestset/episode/kelly-bodwin-quarto-hacks-ai-in-the-classroom-and-why-r-should-stay-weird/
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Simon P. Couch
2 months ago
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...
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Libby Heeren
3 months ago
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/
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Privacy and AI Assistants - Posit
Many of our LLM tools can execute code and access your files. What does this mean for privacy?
https://posit.co/blog/trust-llm-tools/
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Simon P. Couch
3 months ago
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...
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2025-11-21 AI Newsletter - Posit
Several notable model releases from OpenAI, Gemini, and Moonshot, a new release of ellmer, and an LLM benchmark on plot interpretation.
https://posit.co/blog/2025-11-21-ai-newsletter/
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Join us now to learn something about snow and statistics!
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3 months ago
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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...
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Big Mountain Data & Dev 2025 | Utah Geek Events
https://www.utahgeekevents.com/events/big-mountain-data-dev-2025/
3 months ago
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Shannon Pileggi
3 months ago
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🤔...
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Practical {renv} (Shannon Pileggi, The PCCTC) | posit::conf(2025)
YouTube video by Posit PBC
https://youtu.be/l01u7Ue9pIQ?si=oNtInQRfWbb-PAqO
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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...
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Understanding the evolving threat of snow loads with R as the great orchestrator, Wed, Nov 19, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup
Our November Meetup will be a remote gathering; the Zoom link will be posted the week before the event. From our speaker: "At the 2025 useR! conference, Simon Urbanek (Pre
https://www.meetup.com/slc-rug/events/311023005/
3 months ago
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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
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How I got unstuck with Python (Julia Silge, Posit) | posit::conf(2025)
YouTube video by Posit PBC
https://youtu.be/pMVYl9fx1EE?si=LS-2CzRFg4WsfZel
3 months ago
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Jonathan
3 months ago
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...
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10 Years of Data Science Tools...and What Happens Next (Jonathan McPherson) | posit::conf(2025)
YouTube video by Posit PBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGrePGYj7Uw
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Python Software Foundation
4 months ago
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-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
https://www.python.org/sponsors/application/
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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...
4 months ago
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Libby Heeren
4 months ago
@juliasilge.com
on a podcast is a must-listen ❤️❤️❤️
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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
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13. Julia Silge
YouTube video by Astronomers Turned Data Scientists
https://youtu.be/qXoxWt7YGmE?si=B44uunNzWWF1GLK5
4 months ago
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Lionel Henry
4 months ago
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.
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Anil Dash
4 months ago
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.
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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
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Explore literary prizes with Positron’s Data Explorer
YouTube video by Julia Silge
https://youtu.be/KOgQuWF0US4
4 months ago
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Andrew Heiss
4 months ago
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
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Join us here in about 5 min to learn about
#rstats
functions! 🥳
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4 months ago
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Nick Tierney
4 months ago
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
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Event Time Announcer - Salt Lake City talk: Practical Functions, Practically Magic
Event Time Announcer shows time for Salt Lake City talk: Practical Functions, Practically Magic in locations all over the world. In Salt Lake City it happens on Tuesday, October 7, 2025 at 4:00:00 pm.
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Salt+Lake+City+talk%3A+Practical+Functions%2C+Practically+Magic&iso=20251007T16&p1=220&ah=1
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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...
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Practical Functions, Practically Magic, Tue, Oct 7, 2025, 4:00 PM | Meetup
Our October Meetup will be a remote gathering; the Zoom link will be posted the week before the event. From our speaker: "I think the highest value skillset in statistical
https://www.meetup.com/slc-rug/events/308142245/
5 months ago
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Posit
5 months ago
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...
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Costa Samaras
5 months ago
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)
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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...
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Networking and social gathering, Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 4:00 PM | Meetup
Our September meetup will be an in-person gathering for local SLC area folks! We will meet at Thieves Guild Cidery near downtown to spend time networking, having some DnD-t
https://www.meetup.com/slc-rug/events/310591422/
5 months ago
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Maëlle Salmon
5 months ago
"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭
anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...
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How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog
“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!) and I like working with ...
https://anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-a-non-developer-read-the-tutorial-you-a-developer-wrote-for-me-a-beginner
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