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Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah, I needed a hobby that doesn't require good weather, and have kinda fallen in love with having something I can get so nerdy about that doesn't involve tech. Every new thing I learn about music theory is like 🤯

Hope you're well, and I look forward to catching up this week!

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Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 1d

That's exciting!

Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no, what have I started?!!

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Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 1d

Piano lesson was awesome this afternoon & reminded me of why it's way more fun as an adult - my teacher is on board with my goal of "learning stuff to play that my friends & I can sing along to when drinking" and was very enthusiastic when I sheepishly admitted I've been learning Mr Brightside! 🎹🥳 🍸

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Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 1d

Just added Air to the Arrow CI jobs 🪂

It's an R formatter written in Rust, and so fast I genuinely had a "wtf?!" moment the first time I used it.

Would love to see a similar linter; if I had the time, I'd love to try building one - need to get acquainted with tree-sitters one day! 🌳

#rstats

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Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 1d

Loooove this post by @veerle.hypebright.nl on Shiny and LLMs! 🤖

shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/s...

⚡️ Handle requests asynchronously so multiple users don't block each other
⚡️ Provide visual feedback when components are loading
⚡️ Catch errors & display user-friendly messages

#rstats #llms #shiny

Shiny - Build Your First LLM App with Shiny for Python or R

Shiny is a package that makes it easy to create interactive web apps using R and Python.

shiny.posit.co

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Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 6d

🤩 My code produced when using LLMs to work on #rstats code got waaaaay better after I read this blog post by @simonpcouch.com on his Claude setup!

www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2025-07...

How I’m using Claude Code to write R code | Simon P. Couch – Simon P. Couch

www.simonpcouch.com

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Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 6d

Apache Arrow will be 10 soon! 🥳

At the Arrow summit, PMC chair @enpiar.bsky.social reflects on the keys to longevity:

⭐ Social components are as important as the technical
⭐ Build relationships with other projects & make newcomers feel welcome & empowered
⭐ Culture is what makes the difference

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Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 8d

At #positconf, it was the Pacman rule, and at #pydata Paris, it's the camembert rule! 😁🤣

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Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 12d

Fiiiine, if you insist!

Reposted by Nic Crane

Charlotte Hadley (she/her) @charliejhadley.bsky.social · 12d

I’ve just received permission to make a PR against a repo I’ve been dreaming of making for EIGHT YEARS.

I couldn’t be happier. And it’s all thanks to @niccrane.bsky.social

More details at Shiny in Production 😄

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Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 12d

Collaborative effort, I'm just good at impulsively emailing people with other people's ideas! 🤣 Yay teamwork! Looking forward to co-presenting our htmlwidgets delight and LLM horrors 😁

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 14d

I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up

There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily

slidecrafting-book.com
#quarto