Omni has been named a finalist for the 2025 InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards in the Application Management category. 🏆
This highlights what we’ve believed all along: better Kubernetes management matters. A huge thank-you to our team, customers, and partners for helping us get here!
Read the full list: https://foundryco.com/news/foundry-announces-2025-infoworld-technology-of-the-year-award-finalists/
Ask your data natural-language questions in R or Python with the querychat package! Bonus: You never send that data to an LLM.
My step-by-step InfoWorld tutorial using NFL game data (first day of the season tonight!) as an example:
https://www.infoworld.com/article/4040535/chat-with-your-data-the-easy-way-in-r-or-python.html
RAG has come to the tidyverse! Check out my step-by-step #InfoWorld tutorial on how to use the {ragnar} and {ellmer) #RStats 📦 to answer natural language questions about a document or Web page.
https://www.infoworld.com/article/4020484/generative-ai-rag-comes-to-the-r-tidyverse.html
Huge thanks to pkg creator @kalinowski4ben1 at @Posit for answering questions about this month's new version of {ragnar}, which has a lot of changes.
#GenAI #LLMs
Scheduled for tomorrow: "RAG comes to the tidyverse!" My step-by-step tutorial on using the {ragnar} #RStats 📦 to do retrieval augmented generation in R is supposed to be published July 17 at #InfoWorld.
To think that during the late 80s and early 90s, the IT industry was so fast-paced and full of new ideas (and, in fairness, #vaporware) that magazines like #InfoWorld came out every week and had several dozen (not counting the ads!) densely-packed pages with information, news, tests and reviews, announcements, interviews and speculation.
So many of the products - both hardware and software - are mind-blowingly awesome, like the "Earthstation III", a 386SX built into a regular sized keyboard (RPI400 anyone?). I've yet to find one on eBay or elsewhere..
I don't usually link to Google resources (evil bastards), but I'm consuming stuff like this with great apetite: https://books.google.com/books?id=VTwEAAAAMBAJ
🚨 Oh no, #GitHub had a little oopsie! #CICD #secrets just spilled all over the floor like a toddler with a milkshake. 🤦♂️ But don't worry, InfoWorld's got you covered with 10,000 words of filler and ads, just in case you didn't want to find the actual #news. 📈📰
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3849245/github-suffers-a-cascading-supply-chain-attack-compromising-ci-cd-secrets.html #oopsie #InfoWorld #techfail #HackerNews #ngated
Happy and proud that I had an article published by #InfoWorld covering Intelligent IDEs and Development Assistants.
A look at more generative AI tools you can use with R:
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3848270/genai-tools-for-r-new-tools-to-make-r-programming-easier.html
#RStats #GenAI #InfoWorld
{gander}
{chatgpt}
{gptstudio}
{pkgprompt}
Shiny Assistant
Custom GPTs
R Tutor & Chatilize
{rollama} & {ollamar}
{shinychat}
Learn how to make everything from basic line graphs to racing bar charts — all interactive and easily animated — with the {echarts4r} #RStats 📦- one of my faves!
https://www.infoworld.com/article/2262502/plot-in-r-with-echarts4r.html
(I just checked the code, and it still works! Even tho from 2021. Just a couple of code format issues from a recent #InfoWorld site redesign)
You can run large language models locally in the Opera browser developer version. I just added that option to “5 easy ways to run an LLM locally” (now more than 5 as I keep updating the #InfoWorld article, but SEO best practices blah blah)
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3705035/5-easy-ways-to-run-an-llm-locally.html
Jan is another easy way to run LLMs locally on your own system.
My roundup, just updated:
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3705035/5-easy-ways-to-run-an-llm-locally.html
Info on Jan: https://jan.ai
There are some cool VS Code extensions in here I want to try! Ex: SQL Tools, for adding a database workbench to Code; and Data Preview, offering “handlers, visualization tools, and management functions for a wide variety of common formats—not only JSON or CSV, but also Excel, Apache Parquet, Arrow, Avro, YAML” & more. By my colleague Serdar Yegulalp at #InfoWorld
#VSCode
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3434611/7-visual-studio-code-extensions-you-didnt-know-you-needed.html
If you're inspired to try running an LLM locally - either because you're just back from the #NICAR24 data journalism conference or any other reason - I did a roundup of useful tools:
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3705035/5-easy-ways-to-run-an-llm-locally.html
uv is “an extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, written in Rust. Designed as a drop-in replacement for pip and pip-compile. uv is backed by Astral, the creators of Ruff.” - 📦 website
https://github.com/astral-sh/uv
“The company’s benchmarks show uv to be 8x to 10x faster than pip and pip-tools without caching, and 80x to 115x faster when running with a warm cache.” - InfoWorld
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3712790/astral-unveils-extremely-fast-python-package-installer.html
Is API design a lost art?
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3712425/is-api-design-a-lost-art.html
"We’re getting too much latency from poorly designed, developed, and deployed cloud-based APIs and services. It’s time to brush up on testing and monitoring." -- # DavidLinthicum #infoWorld
R Markdown, knitr creator @yihui laid off from full-time job at Posit; will be working as a paid contractor there. My story for InfoWorld:
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3712061/posit-lays-off-r-markdown-knitr-creator-yihui-xie.html
How to use the Python pandas library for basic data analysis - nice explainer for those early in their #python journey by my colleague Serdar Yegulalp
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3257599/how-to-use-pandas-for-data-analysis-in-python.html
What is REST? The de facto web architecture standard
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3706031/what-is-rest-the-de-facto-web-architecture-standard.html
"REST is one of the most influential ideas in distributed architecture. Here's why it matters and how to understand RESTful services in theory and practice." -- #MatthewTyson #InfoWorld
Intro to HTMX: Dynamic HTML without JavaScript
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3706951/htmx-dynamic-html-without-the-javascript.html
"HTMX is the HTML extension syntax that replaces JavaScript with simple markup. It could change the course of web development." -- #MatthewTyson #InfoWorld
The risks of low-code and no-code development in cloud architecture
"These prebuilt components simplify development and offer flexibility and speed, but watch out for scalability, security, and integration problems." -- #DavidLinthicum #InfoWorld
