Harry Vangberg

From today's notes. Terrible project, but eventually I will make it to ECM 1023, one of my favorite albums.

The Chills: Kaleidoscope World (1986) collecting all of their early singles.

Honestly, the file advantage of pdit is quickly losing out to the fact that agents are so good at using CLI's. Here is a Jupyter CLI for working with Jupyter notebooks - I haven't tried it, but my guess is it would work pretty well: github.com/jupyter-ai-c...

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...

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

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

🌟 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".