I've been working with #AI coding agents lately and noticed they struggle with long-running dev tools like watchers - either they get stuck waiting for a task to finish that never will or they can't see when things fail or need restarting.

Positron is just incredible.
I just tried it:
both R session and Python session in parallel
data explorer with distribution and % of missing at glance
git repo with vizualisation of the branches,
plots and viewer in the bottom right corner.
Just Perfect.
bsky.app/profile/hadl...

I am terrible about keeping up with PRs I'm supposed to review so I wrote a little menubar app for macs to alert you when you are requested to review a PR. Right in your face so you can't ignore it. github.com/nstrayer/pr-...

I recent got a Fitbit again for a study I’m taking part in. Reminded me of this fun side project from grad school: a year as told by Fitbit. livefreeordichotomize.com/posts/2017-1...
Fun fact: a whole class of Stanford students analyzed my heart rate data for an assignment.

I've been working a new #rstats package called pal🤖

Pals bring a library of LLM prompts into your RStudio/Positron sessions, editing code directly at the press of a keyboard shortcut.

Read more: simonpcouch.github.io/pal/

I have been slow to get on the AI train but I recently built a demo app to explore the idea of programming language translation using LLMs. The hypothesis being that adding context about the target environment can help. github.com/nstrayer/pol... #ai #rstats #python

@malcolmbarrett.malco.io giving a great and super approachable talk on causal inference in R. Awesome work he’s doing with @sherrirose.bsky.social