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My First Look at Claude Code
Not behind, but at the forefront: On feeling overwhelmed by AI progress, and why that means you're exactly where you need to be.
 • Stephen D. Turner
Labels for Clear Feedback in Peer Review
Conventional Comments provides a framework for offering clear and actionable feedback in peer review
 • Stephen D. Turner
Switching word processors with Zotero
Moving from Google Docs to Word will break your Zotero citations/bibliography linkages unless you do this first.
 • Stephen D. Turner
Positron: data explorer exports dplyr code
Positron allows you to export dplyr/SQL code for actions you take in the data explorer (like sorting and filtering)
 • Stephen D. Turner
All Roads Lead to Philosophy
Successively clicking the first link in a Wikipedia article almost always leads to Philosophy
 • Stephen D. Turner
Construct objects with idiomatic R code
Use the constructive package instead of dput() to construct R objects with idiomatic R code for human-readable reproducible examples
 • Stephen D. Turner
Voice control ggplot2 with ggbot2
Today I learned you can create and customize ggplot2 visualizations using your voice alone.
 • Stephen D. Turner
Writing a book with Quarto
Turn a collection of RMarkdown documents into a book in <1 hour using Quarto
 • Stephen D. Turner
GUIs for Local LLMs with RAG
Running local LLMs with Ollama, LMStudio, Open WebUI, and others for private and secure chat, vibe coding, image analysis, and "chat with your…
 • Stephen D. Turner
Exploring the bioRxiv API with R, httr2, rvest, tidytext, and Datawrapper
Collect metadata and publication details for >200k preprints over a 10 year period, investigate trends, and scrape full text for sentiment analysis
 • Stephen D. Turner
Write code in unfamiliar territory with AI
I used Claude to build a Chrome extension to add a post-to-Bluesky button on bioRxiv. I've never written Javascript or a Chrome extension before. It…
 • Stephen D. Turner
Turn any webpage into markdown for LLM-friendly input
Add r.jina.ai/ in front of any URL to turn the entire page into Markdown for LLM-friendly input. Works on PDFs too.
 • Stephen D. Turner
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