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#493: Quarto: Open-source technical publishing

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Feb 9, 2025
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JJ Allaire
Guest
Carlos Scheidegger
JJ Allaire, founder of Posit and creator of RStudio, joins Carlos Scheidegger, a software engineer at Posit, to discuss Quarto, a game-changing open-source tool for technical publishing. They explore how Quarto transforms Jupyter notebooks into polished outputs, enhancing accessibility across diverse audiences. The conversation highlights challenges in academic publishing and the importance of reproducibility in research. Additionally, they touch on community engagement in open-source projects and the powerful synergy between R and Python users.
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ANECDOTE

Quarto in Action: Real-World Examples

  • Fast.ai and Real World Data Science use Quarto for their websites.
  • These sites demonstrate Quarto's flexibility and power.
INSIGHT

Quarto's Foundation: Pandoc

  • Quarto leverages Pandoc, a universal document converter.
  • Pandoc's abstract document model enables powerful computations.
ANECDOTE

LLMs for Code Generation

  • JJ Allaire recounts using LLMs for VS Code extension development.
  • He got a verbose solution when he wanted a one-liner.
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