Julia Silge

I made an AI video about genzplyr and I lowkey love it. It's also 100% slop. In this post I dig into what makes something slop, when it's ok to share it, and how to avoid it in work that matters. Read more at: substack.hadley.nz/p/what-is-slop

New on the @posit.co open source blog: if you step away from your coding agent long enough to make a coffee, your next message could cost ~16x as much☕ @sara-altman.bsky.social and I wrote about token caching and AI costs: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-10...

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...

Join the SLC RUG next month to hear from @seankross.com about how to build using Docker! 🐳 www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...

New blog post: running R and Python together on an HPC compute node with Positron, including the setup and the snags. Check it out if you routinely work in both languages (regardless of whether you use HPCs or not). miketalbot.io/blog/posts/2...

📦 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'm super excited to join the folks from @motherduck.com at Data Outpost in November! I'll be speaking about why the investments that make SQL comfortable for humans turn out to be the same ones that make it tractable for an agent 🤖 Check out the details at www.dataoutpost.ai

Join us for ice cream this afternoon if you are an SLC-based #rstats person!

If you are a local SLC area #rstats person, join us next Tues, Sept 22 for ice cream🍦and IRL networking and discussion! www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...

Wow, we had some BAD technical difficulties at our #positconf26 talk today 😩 but I put up the demo videos here for folks to check out! 👀 juliasilge.github.io/posit-conf-2...

For the last 2 years I have been tracking a generational change in the nature of software development, and I think I've finally decided where all of this turmoil is going to end up. It's good news, but not for everybody. https://seldo.com/posts/we-are-all-product-engineers-now/

Can't make it to Houston? Virtual passes for posit::conf(2026) start at $99, with academic and nonprofit rates at $49 and a needs-based option at $0. Every keynote and session livestreamed, September 14–16. conf.posit.co

New on the @posit.co blog: In my experience, fine tuning LLMs is more difficult and more expensive than I've seen it made out to be. In most cases, I'd recommend focusing your efforts on experimenting with a bunch of prompts and existing models. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-09...

Earlier this summer, I got to share about teaching statistics with #Positron at eCOTS 2026! 💫 The video is now available to watch, and I think it was a great opportunity to reflect on how the tools we build can either support student discovery or shut it down. www.causeweb.org/cause/ecots/...

@posit.co Positron Server is now free for academic JupyterHub with a teaching license. Students get a full data science IDE (Python/R, debugger, data viewer) in-browser, no install needed. blog.jupyter.org/positron-ser...

Interested in giving Positron a try? 🚀 We just launched a free, self-paced learning path covering: 🔹 UI navigation 🔹 Working with data 🔹 Running & managing code 👉 Start here: academy.posit.co/path/introdu... #DataScience #Positron #RStats #Python

Check out the blog post Wasim and Cindy Tong wrote announcing the GA launch: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07... Give it a try and let us know how you get on!

The Positron Notebook Editor is out of beta and ready for all your notebook workflows! I am super proud of the work the team did to build this notebook experience from scratch. Something we decided was necessary to have a fantastic notebook experience for data science.

Neat. Positron now recognizes a pyproject.toml, offers to build an environment with one click using uv 🚀 opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...

The latest release of Positron leverages `uv` to make getting started with Python as easy as a single click 👾 I wrote up a lil blog post on the places Positron elevates `uv` to help with Python workflows. You can read it here: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...

Latest version of Positron can open xlsx files in the data viewer(!) and it has a dropdown menu now for previewing different formats of #QuartoPub documents And—most importantly, but also from a few weeks ago, so less new—the plots panel can pick up dimensions from chunk options!!!! #rstats

Posit has joined the Jupyter Foundation! 🎉 @jupyter.org has powered interactive computing across our tools for years, from Notebooks to the kernels behind Positron. Now we're helping fund the infrastructure and community that keep it thriving. Read the blog: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

Air 0.10.0 is out now! - Enforce `<-` or `=` throughout your #rstats code (only one of these is correct though 😉) - Tighter Positron and RStudio integration - pre-commit / prek support - stdin support - Install with uv, mise, or pixi Read all about it! opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

TidyDevDay 2026: bring your laptop, leave with a merged PR, new friends, and sharper R skills! First-time contributor? Perfect. Seasoned developer? Also perfect. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06... 📅 Sep 17, Houston, TX, after posit::conf(2026) 🕘 9 am - 4 pm 🎟️ luma.com/pnjuw08h #rstats #tidyverse

Join us in about an hour to hear from @jasminedaly.bsky.social about how she uses Claude Code for #rstats work!

Do you love maps? Of course you do! With the latest release of #ggsql we now support spatial plotting directly from your database. As a cherry on top, the release also provides powerful in-layer aggregation. Read all about it on the blog

It seems like LLMs are getting much better at faithfully describing data visualizations that show surprising trends. With @sara-altman.bsky.social on the @posit.co open source blog: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

Jasmine! Is! Excellent! As a human, as a data person, as a community member. Yes yes yes. Also, the SLC RUG (#rstats user group) is wonderful and usually VIRTUAL (this one is), which means you need not be in Utah to attend. And I don't think you need me to tell you Julia is a delight 🥰

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...

Fable 5 is the new highest scorer on bluffbench! The eval measures models' ability to accurately describe plots that show counterintuitive patterns. Six months ago, the strongest models were still in the single digits. simonpcouch.github.io/bluffbench/

The user interface in the new Posit Assistant is one of the best and most intuitive I've seen for using AI tools for editing code. This will be excellent for students and researchers already familiar with RStudio. This is a brilliant harness and user experience for using AI for data science 🎉