I made a pretty good sticker haul at last week’s Posit conf!

I posted yesterday that I’m happy and excited to be presenting a talk at posit::conf right here in my own new hometown next week.

Captain America chair sit

Covid numbers in Seattle are bad right now! I’ll be wearing a mask most of the time at the conf and “testing in” daily. I certainly don’t want to get sick again, or bring it home, and I believe that making events safer is a shared responsibility, not a solely individual decision about risk.

You’ll still know I’m smiling underneath because my eyes get all wrinkly NO THAT’S NOT JUST BECAUSE I’M OLD.

The week is almost here! I’m giving a talk at posit::conf(2024) about some of the challenges leading a data science team. Am I ready? I will be! I’m looking forward to meeting and learning throughout the week.

I’m quite interested in Positron, the new data science-focused IDE from Posit, built on the open source VS Code foundation. It’s certainly a pitch to get more Python/VS Code-focused developers into the Posit ecosystem, though I also wonder if those users’ preferences aren’t basically already baked; Positron is going to have to be clearly differentiated for Python/VS Code developers to care, and that will be an interesting path to see take shape. To be clear, I hope it does! For my own uses, I’m eager to see Positron fully support working with R (my own experimentation: ongoing!) and bring more ready-to-use affordances and updated UI to the R experience.

Really great ride this morning to start my Sunday. It’s a busy week: I’m remotely attending Posit::conf in addition to the pile of regular things going on, and I’m enjoying watching enthusiastic attendees join the conference discord and say hello.