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.