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Garrick Aden-Buie

@grrrck.xyz

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r + python + data + web things. team shiny at posit (rstudio). open source all the things https://garrickadenbuie.com https://github.com/gadenbuie

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Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · Nov 8

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

Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 5h

I'm a big fan of this idea! I need to write a blog post on this, but bslib + brand.yml + pkgdown's light switch is a killer combo for branded pkgdown sites with light/dark themes.

The {btw} site is a good example posit-dev.github.io/btw/
All the magic is in _pkgdown.yml github.com/posit-dev/bt...

Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 4d

Reading that back, I think I only vocalize the dot in _brand.yml, but that’s just me 💁‍♂️

Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 4d

lol I say “brand yaml” but any spoken version is great!

really I only have opinions about how to write about it: the project name is “brand.yml”, the special file automatically used by Quarto and Shiny is “_brand.yml”, and any brand.yml file by another name is “a brand.yml file”

Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 5d

related: my son is taking piano lessons and we need a “let them eat cake” version of learning piano. tired: Hot Cross Buns; wired: K-Pop Demon Hunters

Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 5d

very cool but where's the rest of the song?

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 6d

This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes.
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 6d

I really appreciate everyone agreeing with me 😆

Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 6d

You arrive at a text input and start typing. Would you rather

1️⃣ Press Enter to submit your text
2️⃣ Press Enter to add a new line

A text input interface with a submit button. In the text area: "I'm writing some text and want a new line..."

Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 6d

Like a chat-with-friends chat window? Or a chat-with-LLMs chat window? Are these different for you?

Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 6d

Same! The button should tell you which one to use! (I removed it in this screenshot)

Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 6d

Implied in this scenario:

1️⃣ Press Shift+Enter to add a new line (Enter to submit)
2️⃣ Press Cmd/Ctrl+Enter to submit (Enter to add a new line)

Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 6d

You arrive at a text input and start typing. Would you rather

1️⃣ Press Enter to submit your text
2️⃣ Press Enter to add a new line

A text input interface with a submit button. In the text area: "I'm writing some text and want a new line..."

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Jeremy R. Winget, PhD @jrwinget.bsky.social · 13d

Last week, I went from long-time attendee to first-time speaker at #PositConf2025. I shared how behavioral science can help #rshiny cut user friction and build kinder tools. Even ended with #rstats contributions.

I couldn't be more grateful! Recap 👇
jrwinget.com/blog/2025-09-25_posit-conf-journey

From First-Time Attendee to Speaker: My posit::conf Journey – Jeremy R. Winget, PhD

Seven years of growth, community, and bridging behavioral science with R tooling at posit::conf

www.jrwinget.com

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 14d

I am super hyped to finally share the first release of plumber2 with all of you. This has been the center of my attention for a big part of 2025 and I hope you'll find it a worthy update to the venerable plumber package.

The blog post will tell you more

#rstats

plumber2, a complete rewrite of plumber, has landed on CRAN, providing a modern, future proof solution for creating web servers in R. Read all about the new features here.

www.tidyverse.org

Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 15d

New github status: "sending beep-boops back to the Snarfus"

Maëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · 15d

"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭

anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...

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 ...

anniemueller.com

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 17d

Against my better instincts, I have written some notes on how human probability judgements work and what you should expect from surveys that ask people to guess what proportion of the population is transgender. I hope never to speak of this matter again

Some notes on probability judgement – Notes from a data witch

For the love of fuck, literally nobody thinks that 20% of the population is transgender. Please stop sharing that ridiculous YouGov statistic

blog.djnavarro.net

Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 20d

And now we’re mutuals! Hi 👋 and thank you! 😊

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 20d

I feel seen listening to @grrrck.xyz talking about making his own Beamer theme in grad school.

RIP Kelly's Personal Beamer theme (2015-2017), killed by discovering RMarkdown. 🪦

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Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 24d

Really insightful post from Julie Tibshirani (spotted in LinkedIn, can't find on Bsky) reflecting on #rstats 's unique governance structure and what can be learned for other languages

jtibs.substack.com/p/if-all-the...

If all the world were a monorepo

The R ecosystem and the case for extreme empathy in software maintenance

jtibs.substack.com

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 25d

I program in Squirrel, i.e. a mixture of SQL and R while leaving many small files littered around my drive

#Rstats

Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 27d

ggplot2 4.0.0 is out and the new `paper`, `ink`, `accent` theme variables look super cool! Just pick 2-3 colors 🎨 to make your plots look great! I'm excited to hook this up to brand.yml 😉

A ggplot2 plot showing a classic `mpg` scatter plot. The code uses `theme_gray()` with `paper = "cornstalk"` for a light yellow background, `ink = "navy"` for navy blue text and points, and `accent = "tomato"` which is applied to the smoothing line created with `geom_smooth()`

Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 29d

Actual thing I just said to an LLM: "Dial back the marketing speak. Be a normal human."

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · Sep 4

On the topic of “our” duty to persuade abusers, a tale:

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THE FINGER-TAKER’S SON

Whenever the king became displeased with one of his subjects, he would send out his soldiers, and before long the offender would find themselves in the basement of the king’s finger-taker.

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · Sep 4

Apparently he's really saying "liberals need to befriend conservatives for the greater good" which is so pundit brained I can't even

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Andrew Holz @andrewholz.bsky.social · Aug 27

Finally got Glimpse out focused on what the Posit open source team has been up to. Turns out its quite a bit! posit.co/blog/posit-g...
I continue to be happy with the approach we (Posit) are taking with LLMs and AI. Too impactful to ignore but focus on useful and safe as much as possible.

Posit's latest glimpse newsletter highlights new product releases, including the Positron IDE and several new LLM-powered tools.

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Wojciech Maj @wojtekmaj.pl · Aug 26

Interesting how so many projects are now improving docs & error messages "so LLMs can understand." 🤖
Was making them clear for humans not a good enough reason already?

Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · Aug 24

Imminent. We’re going through the same process the tidyverse team did a few years ago. We have open issues in all repos and are collecting contributor consent. So likely the next release (or the one after) of any affected package will be MIT