Need a little whimsy in your quarto slides?
Presenting quarto-revealjs-transitions with 100+ new slide transitions

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cthulhuian horror poetry.

Love the spread css! I will be using this!

It feels though for say the three bullet item lists I want a bit of extra on the top and bottom… so they fill the space but have a top and bottom padding. The last item is too close to the bottom of the slide.

Does that make sense?

Quarto 1.9 – Quarto Quarto 1.9 adds publishing to Posit Connect Cloud, LLM-friendly website output, major Typst improvements, experimental PDF accessibility standards, and list tables for complex table content.

Quarto v1.9 is now out. Release blog post summarizes the new goodies.
quarto.org/docs/blog/po...

Kermit the frog screaming with excitement

We have summer internships y'all! Come work at Posit on the PyData, tidymodels, shiny, or Connect teams: grnh.se/tigz810a3us. You will have an awesome time, learn a ton, and help advance our open source and pro tools 🧰 #rstats #pydata

Really happy that Glimpse is going monthly. Much better timing considering how fast the world seems to be moving.

posit::glimpse() Newsletter – March 2026 - Posit Stay up to date with the latest in this posit::glimpse() roundup, featuring posit::conf(2026) registration, the launch of Posit AI, and updates to Positron, Quarto, and mirai.

The March edition of posit::glimpse() is here! 🚀

Key updates include Posit AI, a new assistant in RStudio, Pointblank for synthetic data for #Python, mirai v2.6.0: 50% faster async #RStats ⚡, Positron's PDF viewer + Jupyter support, and more.

Read the full roundup:
posit.co/blog/glimpse...

Accessibility is hard and nuanced but oh so important. Quarto takes another step forward thanks to Gordon Woodhull. quarto.org/docs/blog/po...

The Prolific Output of Wes McKinney in the Age of Agentic Engineering - Posit Wes McKinney is shipping open source projects faster than ever, using AI coding agents to build across Python, Go, Swift, and Rust... and he's having more fun than he's had in years.

Interesting writeup from Rich (of GT fame) on what Wes McKinney has unlocked with rise of LLMs. posit.co/blog/the-pro.... I have thoughts about what this type of development means for teams and processes. Need to share some of them soon! Moving target!

posit::glimpse() Newsletter – February 2026 - Posit This edition covers major updates from Posit, including new versions of ggplot2, ellmer, and dplyr.

The newest edition of posit::glimpse() is here! 🚀

Read a roundup of major #RStats & #Python updates: ggplot2 4.0.0, dplyr 1.2.0, ellmer 0.4.0, Positron native Jupyter Notebook support , and more.

🎟️ Plus, registration for posit::conf(2026) is officially OPEN!

Find it here: posit.co/blog/posit-g...

querychat in Python: Query Your Data with Natural Language | Shiny + LLMs | Veerle van Leemput YouTube video by Posit PBC

I really love querychat as a way to leverage the flexibility of LLMs but in a safe controlled way. Building dashboards in Python? This excellent walk through by Veerle is _worth_ checking out. youtu.be/AntqhLhw4BM?...
If you "just wish it had the option to..." PLEASE REACH OUT! WE ARE LISTENING!

Surprise I wrote another quarto revealjs extension. Now giving you more fragments to use!

Easy to use fragments with conventional syntax. Works on headers, whole slides and on a letter-by-letter basis

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I think the Turing test with real world implications is -- can an AI agent _appear_ more productive than an apathetic human in a broken system _appears_.

Have you used HR systems?!?

Open source all the things.

Amazing post on an amazing session. Thank you so much for sharing Emily!

Models continue to improve at a good clip. Great to see Simon and Sara bring independant, no agenda numbers to the table. I wonder how long this can go on and how many "niches" will get focused attention.

Which LLM writes the best R code? - Posit The vitals package delivers a dedicated framework for measuring how well Large Language Models perform with code.

New data from @sara-altman.bsky.social & @simonpcouch.com, using the vitals and ellmer packages, looks at LLM performance metrics for #RStats.

👀 Sneak peek: Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, & OpenAI GPT-5 lead in generating correct R code.

Read the full breakdown: posit.co/blog/r-llm-e...

Isabel Z is killing it giving a talk on data tools as the keynote speaker at pydata Boston! Let’s go!

I put together two roundups from posit::conf(2025):

• Shiny talks + full workshop materials
shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/c...

• Quarto talks playlist and summaries
quarto.org/docs/blog/po...

When plotting, LLMs see what they expect to see - Posit Data science agents need to accurately read plots even when the content contradicts their expectations. Our testing shows today's LLMs still struggle here.

Introducing bluffbench, a new tool to evaluate how well LLMs actually see data plots.

When we trick LLMs with secret #RStats transformations, they can miss the visual contradiction.

bluffbench helps us measure this "blind spot" in AI coding agents. Learn more: posit.co/blog/introdu...

PyData Boston 2025

I am looking forward to PyData Boston in a few weeks. If anyone is going and wants to meet up please let me know. I will be sitting at the Posit table quite a bit of the time. I went to the last few PyData NYCs so it will be interesting to see how it differs. pydata.org/boston2025

Python Open-Source Developer Posit is hiring a Python open-source developer to create more data analysis tools.

We're hiring an open-source #python developer focused on modeling APIs!

tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11...

#numpy #scipy #scikitlearn

How long before I can get a credit card with a reward program paying out in Anthropic or OpenAI token credits?

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.

In case you missed it in all the posit::conf 2025 content, checking out part 3 of Veerle van Leemput's series on building your first AI powered app is worth checking out! shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/s...

Shiny - Talking to LLMs: From Prompt to Response Shiny is a package that makes it easy to create interactive web apps using R and Python.

Part two of Veerle van Leemput's exploration of LLMs is out. Her exposition is so clear and easy to follow even if you are not likely to use Shiny its worth checking out! shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/s...

Obviously this does not replace manual EDA... but it lowers the bar to taking a quick look so much engaging with data you would not otherwise becomes a real option.

Collaborate > automate. Databot logo alongside screenshot of Positron.

Introducing Databot: an AI assistant for exploratory data analysis in #Python and #RStats!

A research preview in Positron, Databot is a tireless pair programmer to help you explore data.

Learn more about this tool and our philosophy behind it:

🤖 posit.co/blog/introdu...
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Posit Posit's latest glimpse newsletter highlights new product releases, including the Positron IDE and several new LLM-powered tools.

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.

You might be in a certain kind of family if... as leftovers are being put away in the fridge there is an involved discussion on if the fridge is LIFO or FIFO and if that is family member specific. Then the undeniable trump card is played and its really MDFO (Most Delicious) for everyone.