Ian Lyttle

I have drifted from Observable lately, and I could use a distraction today.

I've got my morning coffee, let's do this!

Posit We’re happy to announce that we’re supporting Typst by funding one of their full-time engineers.

At Posit, we love @typst.app:

⚡ Make PDFs in milliseconds, not minutes
✨ The power of LaTeX with today's technologies
✍️ Modern typography (including emojis!)
🧠 Clear mental model

So I'm thrilled to announce that we're now supporting its development: posit.co/blog/posit-a...

#rstats

Leon Draisaitl taking the Clarence Campbell Bowl back to the Oilers' locker room.

Mad Men finalé: Peggy Olsen taking her box of stuff to her new office

same energy

YouTube video by NHL Connor McDavid ANSWERS in Game 5!

Connor McDavid in the elimination game against Dallas, 2025: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRoj...

YouTube video by SPORTSNET Gotta See It: Connor McDavid Shows Off Sweet Moves to Bury Goal

Connor McDavid in the elimination game against Dallas, 2024: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-ea...

This is a fun piece on denominators to share with your friends, written with my @wakeforest.bsky.social colleague Jeff Camm!

mutable, Python argument-defaults are... docs.astral.sh/ruff/rules/f...

Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon. nyti.ms/3Sbusb3

Common Gotchas — The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python

(repeat to self) Python argument-defaults are mutable, Python argument-defaults are mutable, Python argument-defaults are mutable... docs.python-guide.org/writing/gotc...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

SveltePlot logo with the website address https://svelteplot.dev and a few example plots in the background

Last week I had the pleasure of finally releasing the #SveltePlot alpha version during my talk at the #SvelteSummit in Barcelona. It's a new visualization framework for @svelte.dev that I've been working on for the past 18 months, so it's about time for a 🧵

As promised.

From the dataengineering community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the dataengineering community

This is why I can't sleep at night...
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For the last couple of months I've been working on something and I'm excited to finally share an early preview:

Say hello to plumber2 🎉

plumber2 is a full rewrite of the plumber package for creating powerful webapis in #rstats. It takes everything we have learned from plumber and adds even more

Deep Space Nine scene in three pictures. In pic one and two, Jadzia Dax and a old Klingon named Kor are reuniting/hugging it out. Both look absolutely thrilled to see each other. In pic three, the hug ends and they remain close. Kor is an older Klingon, white & grey scraggly flowy hair and goatee, sharpe teeth, and forehead ridge loaf. Dax is in her blue science uniform on DS9 station. She has what looks like tattoos running up her neck on each side of her face through to the hairline. Closed caption as follows; Pic one, focused on Kor, "Oh Curzon, my beloved old friend." Pic two, showing Dax mid-hug, smiling big, "I'm Jadzia now." Pic three showing both & each smiling towards one another. Kor, "Oh well, Jadzea, my beloved old friend."

Alt in pic 1, Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️

Alt in pic 1, Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️

just finished the Severance finale, what an amazing combination (reintegration?) of Andor and The Princess Bride

We're delighted to announce Jonathan McPherson – software architect at Posit – as keynote speaker at posit::conf(2025)!

If you're curious about how thoughtful design principles can improve the data science tools you use, you won't want to miss this!

Join us Sep 16-18 in Atlanta. pos.it/conf

Hi #rstats friends!

I'm starting consulting! I've had a great journey in academia working with brilliant people, and while it's bittersweet (and a bit scary!), I'm excited for this next step. I'll still be maintaining {greta} and am hoping to be even more involved with the R community.

1/n

The very definition of a hockey-stick graph

Leon Draisaitl pointing back to Oilers' goalie Calvin Pickard, after scoring an overtime goal on a play launched by Pickard.

find yourself someone who looks at you like Leon Draisaitl looks at Calvin Pickard after scoring an overtime goal

Voyagers I and II are two of the greatest wonders of humankind and are testimonies to the value of having an aspirational US federal government …

The community effort to make the penguins data accessible to all R users took almost exactly 2 years to date!! Our first email exchange was February 19, 2023.

Thank you to our international forces of nature that made this happen! @ellakaye.co.uk @HeathrTurnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy

🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧

no rugrets?

Air, an extremely fast R formatter We are thrilled to announce Air, a new R formatter.

@lionelhenry.bsky.social and I are so excited to finally announce Air - an extremely fast R code formatter! 🎉

With Air, you'll never need to worry about styling your #rstats code ever again. All you need to do is save, and Air takes care of the rest.

www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...

Diversity is our greatest asset, even if the government disagrees… They not like us! POC in STEM are here to stay.

They tried to rig the game but you can’t fake influence!
Mustard on the [Be][At] bro.

Happy Black History Month!

I have "Table Tool" on an older Mac, which I seem to remember installing on your recommendation. Could this be it?

this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.

We're excited to announce Catherine Nelson as keynote speaker at posit::conf(2025)! Author of "Software Engineering for Data Scientists," she'll share how data scientists can benefit from software engineering best practices! Sept 16-18 in Atlanta.
pos.it/conf
#PositConf2025 #Python #rstats #pydata

We're jazzed to announce that Kieran Healy (@kjhealy.co) as a keynote speaker at posit::conf(2025)!

Tools for science are better than ever, but it's also easier to make stuff up. If Honest Data Visualization interests you, join us!

Sept 16-18, Atlanta. pos.it/conf

#PositConf2025 #Python #RStats