tladeras’s avatartladeras’s Twitter Archive—№ 6,901

  1. Joe Cheng telling this amazing story of coming up with Shiny at a moment where he was considering leaving RStudio and having something to work towards as a gift. #rstudioconf2022
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      R users are incredibly motivated- it gave them mic drop moments with others, expanded their audience. So motivated that it's userbase has made its ecosystem thrive.
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        So many reactive web frameworks have died. Not Shiny. Userbase is super dedicated.
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          Talking about how R allowing named arguments going before positional arguments. R is the best language for Shiny.
          oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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            And...Shiny for Python!
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              It is in Alpha state, uses Python decorators to get similar syntax.
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                  Holy fuck! A visual editor for Shiny!
                  oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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                    Everyone giving Joe and the Shiny team a standing ovation.
                    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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                      I did not know that i wanted a Hadley/Joe web series. I do now.
                      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API