Selfie holding my SciPy 2025 badge with tutorial room in the background

#SciPy2025, here we go!

Getting ready to host the ‪‪‪@vega-vis.bsky.social Altair tutorial with @dwootton.bsky.social

I haven’t looked extensively, but there are lots of good open source options on Linux and I haven’t seen an obvious option on MacOS

I have a claude pro subscription so it didn’t cost anything additional, it was easier to not change context from my terminal, and I’m still trying to build my intuition on what these tools can do.

What’s your favorite free CLI or MacOS disk viewer?

Today's (non-coding) Claude Code usecase. "My disk is almost full, what can I delete?"... "Here are 150GB of cache directories, Rust build artifacts, node_modules directories, etc."

We want to thank Posit for their support! With Posit’s help, we were able to grow our team by one full time engineer, committed to make the Typst compiler even better ❤️

Here was the first generation

Claude iterated through 5 images along the way, before being satisfied with this one. The prompt was:

"Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle. Use the Render SVG tool to render and examine the svg. Iterate up to 20 times until it's perfect."

Playing with a local MCP server that renders SVG images to PNG, so that Claude can "see" the rendered image, and can iterate on the SVG. Using this approach with @simonwillison.net's pelican challenge produces an interesting result with Sonnet 3.7
simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/25/...