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And another Quarto announcement; I've alluded to it before, but we're making it "official". We've started work on Quarto 2. The blog post has an overview: quarto.org/docs/blog/po... We'll share more in future blog posts, but here's what you can expect from the Quarto 2 dev effort: (1/)

Quarto 2 is rewritten from the ground up in Rust. The performance-critical parts of the system are now entirely in a single source tree, which will give you much faster Markdown processing, as well with more thorough tooling support like error messages, lints, and completion. (2/)

Because the main code base is now fully in Rust, we can compile it to WebAssembly, and use it to drive a web-based collaborative writing system. This is based on www.automerge.org, and will have both open-source and commercial hosted versions. (3/)

We also figured out how to make the processing pipeline "bidirectional", allowing rich editors to conveniently and minimally change the .qmd source in editor environments. This will bring a number of new affordances that aren't demoable yet, but we think you'll truly love. (4/)

Finally, Quarto 2 will take some time to cook; don't expect a release for at least 6 months. Quarto 1, in the meantime, continues under development, and Quarto 2 lives in a separate repo: github.com/quarto-dev/q2 We'll have individual posts about all of the new tech coming up. Stay tuned! (5/5)

bro, just throw it in Claude Code and watch the GitHub stars roll in. Isn’t that how software development works?

(oof bsky isn't helping today) I have a Whole Thing ready to post about how most devs are doing coding-via-LLMs wrong, and I think our team is doing it pretty interestingly! But it's touch-the-hot-stove-y, so we'll probably wait a few before talking about it in more detail.

I also have a Whole Thing about how academic writing-via-LLMs is wrong but there are some interesting alternatives out there …but also withholding. When do we get our NYTimes op-ed about the burden self-censoring?

Totally understand why you’re both holding off, but a whole thing (or, better, two whole things) about how academics are doing writing-with-LLMs wrong would be very useful! I know I’m not the only one trying to feel my way in the dark.

Ok, I'm curious. I'm watching several different teams and techniques, and I'd love to know where you're landing.