Sam Parmar

Obsidian Sync now has a headless client, so you can sync vaults to a server without using the desktop app. Try the open beta:

29 years of #rstats community knowledge was sitting in hard-to-search pipermail archives. So I built a more modern home for it. Introducing the R Mailing List Archives: 631,000+ messages from 32 lists, fully searchable and available as open data. …ailing-lists.thecoatlessprofessor.com

I love this article so much. Rachel has done a deep dive into the psychology of vibe coding, & discovered underlying reasons why it's tripping so many people up psychologically (even whilst it can be helpful). Read it, so you know what to watch out for: fast.ai/posts/2026-01-…

Introduction to building (better) R packages with Nicola Rennie! Free R/Pharma Workshop Mon, Nov 3, 2025 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST events.zoom.us/ev/Ai-geyS63AO…

I just learned Claude's new code interpreter mode has a /mnt/skills/public/ folder full of prompt instructions and Python utilities for creating and manipulating pdf, docx, pptx, and xlsx files - and you can ask Claude for a copy and learn a TON about working with those formats

Today we're launching a 5 week course, including access to the new solveit platform, starting Oct 20th. If you want to join us or learn more, go here: solve.it.com

If you hide the system prompt and tool descriptions for your LLM agent, what you're actually doing is taking the single most detailed set of documentation for your service and deliberately hiding it from your most sophisticated users!

I'm ready to accept a definition of "agent" that I think is widely-enough agreed upon to be useful: An LLM agent runs tools in a loop to achieve a goal This is a big piece of personal character development for me! I've been dismissing the term as hopelessly ambiguous for years

Shoutout to George Stagg for another #rstats #webR REPL update: 1. Shared code now auto-runs when you click links (by adding &a parameter to end of code=) 2. Choose your view: editor, plot, terminal, or files with ?mode='editor-plot' Try it yourself: #code=eJyb2LwkLzE3dXVoXklmSU5qiqFe0JKCxJKMXfoZ%2Bbmp%2BuWpSfGlxalF%2BsjyKYkliUe4CnLySzQMrQwNNAHRbxp%2B&a" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">webr.r-wasm.org/latest/?mode=%…

New in {rocleteer}: @examplesWebR tag lets you add interactive #rstats examples to your #pkgdown documentation with #webr! 📦 Pkg: github.com/coatless-rpkg/… 🎯 Repo: github.com/coatless-r-n-d… 🌐 Live: rd.thecoatlessprofessor.com/webr-in-pkgdow…

{mcpr} now works with {ellmer} github.com/devOpifex/mcpr

Static MCP servers with R 🎉

I've had a tough time making a typed system for #rstats with Vapour but it looks like @FabriceHategek3 is making great progress with typr go give him a follow! crates.io/crates/typr

Slides from my talk at the #ShinyConf2025 are online : speakerdeck.com/colinfay/beyon…

Now you can automate your #rstats package submissions to CRAN with a simple, reusable workflow. Built-in safety features prevent accidental submissions. Try it in your next release! 💻 Code: github.com/coatless-actio… 🔗 Post: blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/programming/gi…

my open source projects lately seem to follow a theme 2025 · Defuddle messy HTML → clean HTML 2024 · Obsidian Web Clipper HTML → Markdown 2024 · JSON Canvas file format for canvas data 2023 · Importer closed formats → Markdown (Evernote, Notion, Apple Notes, OneNote, etc)

here you go... next version of Obsidian Web Clipper has nice Markdown export for Claude and ChatGPT out of the box

Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding (but vibe coding rocks) simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/19/vi…

new project — defuddle > de·​fud·dle /diˈfʌdl/ transitive verb > to remove unnecessary elements from a web page, and make it easily readable. Inspired by my work on Obsidian Web Clipper I created Defuddle, an open source library to replace Mozilla's Readability in my projects. Defuddle extracts the main content from web pages. It's a bit more forgiving and tunable to my preferences. Notably, Defuddle uses a website's mobile styles to find unnecessary elements that can be removed from the page. still a work in progress but you can try it out in Obsidian Web Clipper 0.10.9, or install it via NPM

The new issue of @rweekly_org is out ! "R Weekly 2024-W52 Rlinguo, R for music, Shiny sprite randomiser " buff.ly/49QX8hq