Garrick Aden-Buie

I made a starter pack with #Shiny for #RStats and #Python devs and friends! And if you're a Shiny person and want to be included, let me know. go.bsky.app/BFEQ1HY

New post! Debunking the Google Gemini/Cloud commercial on the full moon and baseball stats. marcoshuerta.com/posts/full-m...

This is PHP, not R. Why not have actually good modeling and visualization in PHP when porting & adapting open source is so attainable these days?

A very very interesting and recent book by Dr Cat Hicks ( @grimalkina.bsky.social ): Pyschology of Software Teams She makes a good case on how most companies/teams don’t understand how devs operate and think of devs as “brains in jars.” And now we have AI suddenly enter the room…

The full R+AI 2026 schedule is up! Nov 10-11. 100% online. Keynotes, talks, lightning talks, a workshop, and a tutorial. A taste: statistical thinking when AI writes the code, agents in R, private AI for sensitive data, and shipping R models to production. rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...

Excited to share my latest blog on Posit Open Source! During my internship, I built 10 apps and 5 computational biology packages using R, Python, Shiny, and Shinyreact to make scientific research more accessible, especially in rare diseases and cancer. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-10...

shinyglass 0.5.0 is on CRAN. Liquid Glass themes for Shiny, now closer to iOS 27, with real refraction, springy buttons, shinychat support, and full mobile support. Same app works on desktop and phone. Live demos: ericrayanderson.github.io/shinyglass #rstats #shiny

In case you weren't able to make it, @sara-altman.bsky.social and I wrote up the talk for the @posit.co OSS blog. We talked about the rise of "vibe analysis," the pitfalls of human-in-the-loop, and some new software from Posit. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-10...

We released rig 0.11.0, the #Rstats installation manager, this week (and 0.10.0 a bit before). New: a website at rig.r-lib.org, user mode R installations, R package management and R projects. First of three blog posts, on R installations: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-10...

Shower thought

New in querychat: multiple tables, chat history, data-dict, and easy extraction of findings into Quarto, Shiny, Jupyter, etc. querychat is now much more capable beyond just querying "pre-defined" Shiny outputs. Available for both #rstats and #python. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-09...

I am loathe to self promote, so instead I’ll use @niccrane.bsky.social as a proxy. Some thoughts about LLMs and our anthropomorphization of them. jonkeane.com/blog/languag...

📦 Introducing shinyreact for R & Python Write your UI natively in React. Shrink your Shiny server to data-only logic. Agent Skills write the React for you. ✨ opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-09... This is the start! Tell us what you build and what breaks. #RStats #Python #Shiny #React

I was just at multiple conferences in multiple countries; it's so apparent that EVERYONE is processing their grief around AI. bradfrost.com/blog/post/gr... Also apparent is a healthy way of processing it is to come together & discuss it with vulnerability and nuance. This is what community is for.

ellmer 0.5.0 is now on CRAN! #rstats 🎉 New in this release: citations from web search, new ways to upload files, token counting before you send, streaming structured output, and AWS Bedrock Mantle support. Read all about it on the Posit Open Source blog: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-09...

Two ideas from this article resonate 1. The “rogue AI agent” hacking incidents are more failures of test design and oversight than examples of runaway AI. 2. Focus on existential risk helps distract from concrete harms happening now from government misuse to companies using AI against workers.

This is going to sound overly sentimental but I sometimes really underestimated the role community can play in motivation. I am social exhausted (whooo introvert life) from posit::conf but mentally inspired and motivation battery is replenished #positconf #positconf26

The end of #PositConf2026 always sneaks up on me. So many conversations I wanted to have and didn't get to among so many other unexpected and fun conversations. If I saw you in passing or from across the room while sprinting to the next session, I really did mean to say hi. 👋 until next time!

you really should and I need to do it more too ohhelloana.blog/tell-the-spe...

I just finished my first paper written entirely in Quarto, and it has changed how I think about the manuscript-writing process. If you’re not an #RStats or #Quarto user, the biggest benefit is that you can automate repetitive workflows. Here are 5 things that made my writing process more efficient.

A HOT DOG IS NOT A SANDWICH, A HOT DOG IS A TACO!

We're excited to share commons, an R and Python package that helps data scientists build trustworthy data agents for their organizations! Read more on the @posit.co open source blog: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-09...

Wicked psyched to share that shinychat v0.5.0 #RStats and v0.7.1 #Python are now available! Check out all the rad new features on the Posit Open Source blog. #PositConf2026 opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-09...

GLM 5.3 Flash is really fun. Super zippy and super cheap, and it’s great at getting things done. Pair it with a smart model or a smart human and you can get places fast!

I never just ask an agent to implement something. If I don't know how to do it, I first ask for an overview of the approach. Then I ask questions until I understand it. Only then do I have it implement the change. If you're not using AI to learn, you're missing out.

Randomise is awesome! #quarto

Today years old when I realized that burger sauce is the condiment equivalent of every soda flavor from the dispenser

I've been working in Markdown and YAML a lot lately, and ended up building Yamark, a fast formatter for both. With LLMs, Markdown + YAML feel like programming languages. I wanted the same kind of tooling for them that I'm used to with code. t-kalinowski.github.io/yamark/

this is the way

I miss you’re misused yours and it’s

Compression and LLMs are trying to solve the exact same problem: predicting what comes next. @anniesexton.com's interactive essay walks us through the basics of compression to reveal its surprising overlap with every language model you've ever used.

This is a good take. When was the last time you wanted dark or light mode just for one site? My blog is just not that special. Neither are my package docs.

This is a good thread to pull on. Let me think it through, because I believe the worry actually points at where the framing genuinely belongs — and where it doesn't.

That's a really important question, and I want to answer it factually rather than hand-wave.

Just wrapped up our first session, "AI, LLMs, and Big Data in R" with Kristin Bott, Ed Borasky, and Kylie Bemis"! We learned about using LLMs for coding in R,ethods for code parallelization, Posit and R tools for memory efficiency, and more. #LLMs #CascadiaRConf #AI #Posit #rstats #R #coding

If you've ever been curious about how to use claude code skills, check out @pingfanhu.bsky.social's recent post. He shows how to leverage skills to encapsulate complex workflows and achieve impressively consistent outputs from agents. pingfanhu.com/blog/2026-06...

OTOH sharing a link to a chat with Claude is a lot less rude than sending them a letmegooglethat.com link

How can you get better R code out of Claude, ChatGPT/Codex, Gemini, and other generative AI? These tips have worked for me: www.infoworld.com/article/4184... #Rstats #R #GenAI #LLMs

I'm thrilled to share that #querychat now supports more exploratory visualization powered by #ggsql. We're excited about what this direction can unlock for data scientists looking to curate "tidy" data for others explore. Expect more on this in the coming months. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

🤩 love this hex sticker!

When we started working on Positron, we began by asking "what did we always want to do in RStudio, but couldn't"? Years of community upvotes on RStudio's issue tracker helped us form that wishlist. Here's how some big ideas made their way to Positron: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

This reminded me that back when I led the js4shiny.com workshop at #RStudioConf2020, I made a little easter egg app for the course if you click on the hex logo on the site. It was a little hex sticker memory game inspired by a Shiny app by the dreamRs team