Jeremy Allen

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I don't care if AI helps you write Welcome to The Treeline!

I don't care if #AI helps you write. The gist is that I care more about what you and the words you use are doing in the world. But there is a bit more to unpack open.substack.com/pub/thetreel...

you have an awesome brain

AI’s Rapid Transformation of Work — March 08, 2026 Update This update adds 3 new entries to the log, covering Benzinga, Oracle, IBM.

They are a bit of an outlier at the moment open.substack.com/pub/thetreel...

IBM looks beyond short-term AI gains, tripling entry-level hiring The tech giant argues that increasing entry-level hiring is the only way to avoid a hollowed-out talent pipeline five years from now.

“The companies three to five years from now that are going to be the most successful are those companies that doubled down on entry level hiring in this environment,” LaMoreaux said. www.cio.com/article/4134...
#databs

help others fly

it's off already. you have to opt in

A class of AI critique:
The hammer broke the window.
The hammer broke in half when I ran it through a table saw.
The hammer broke my teeth when I chewed on it.
The hammer left me soaked when I used it as an umbrella.

Meanwhile:
In the right hands, the hammer helps drive nails and build houses.

AI's transformation of work A running log

New entries in my running log of AI's transformation of work.
#databs
open.substack.com/pub/thetreel...

make cat sweaters! (sweaters for cats, that is)

Thanks, Claude Cowork for handling this: "Make sense of all the emails from our daughter's school. Create a .md file that has sections and notes per classes. An admin section about tardies, absences. See what you else you find and suggest how I can stay up to date and organized."

One day we may not even need to prefix everything with "agentic." Like when I say I saw a bird yesterday I don't need to say "but through my prescription glasses."

love this

AI's transformation of work A running log

Most people I know don't have time or energy to keep up with how AI is transforming work. So I started The Treeline for them, and perhaps you. Follow along here open.substack.com/pub/thetreel...

Raycast for that

the alt text I forgot: Brown-headed Nuthatch perched on weathered wood, Georgia, February 22, 2026. eBird stats panel shows 2,864 birds reported across 1,549 checklists in the past 30 days and a blue bar plot with bars for each day.

Fun with my Brown-headed Nuthatch photo, #RStats, eBird API, rebird package, #tidyverse and #ggplot2 packages. How many Brown-headed Nuthatches have been reported to eBird in Georgia over the last 30 days? Now I can run this on all my bird photos!

Brown-headed Nuthatch perched on weathered dead wood, bill angled downward, showing its distinctive warm brown cap and blue-gray back

Enjoy this little Brown-headed Nuthatch I photographed today.
#birds #birding #photography

how does that ever even rise as an option?

Don’t let the tibble wars of 2026 deter you

Even Perl is up

What world is this?

Python is slipping in popularity – Tiobe The world’s most popular programming language is losing market share to more specialized languages such as R and Perl, Tiobe says.

#RStats is up baby

www.infoworld.com/article/4129...

You're doing awesome work and we want to hear your stories! Submit a talk for posit::conf(2026) - Today is the last call for talks!

abstract procedural art in a dark blue and white palette, comprised of thousands of flowing ribbon shapes in the middle of the field against a dark blue background. it feels vaguely organic

rising from the depths #rstats

Data Reporter Remote, United States

Seen online: ProPublica is hiring a data reporter, 5 yrs data journalism exp req'd. Salary $110K-$135K. Knowledge of Python or #RStats.
US remote or option to work in NY, DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Phoenix or Berkeley
More info:
job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
#DDJ #JournalismJobs

Sometimes I’m shocked that it understands me. Today I hit enter accidentally in the middle of a sentence and it still knew what I was going for

I’ve had a lot of fun working in the terminal again lately. Today I found yazi. It’s a very fast terminal file browser. Split panes in Ghostty is working pretty good. Yazi in a panel. Multiple Claude Code panels.

and my favorite for interactive tables in html output, reactable

With bookdown.org being decommissioned, I've been working on converting #rstats books from #bookdown to #quartopub. After spending a lot of time with Claude to get it right for my two books, here's a repo that might help you do the same (especially with Claude Code):

github.com/topepo/bookd...

You know those digital collections were the IIIF viewer & trash interface forces you to work really slow? Yeah, I just got Claude Code buffed with the Playwright MCP and Chromium to simulate a user zooming in/out, grab the tiles and create new composites.

In English : I can get all the images!