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The public overwhelmingly rejects OMB’s proposed federal grant rule

OMB has proposed a sweeping rewrite of the rules that govern every federal grant. Thousands of people filed comments. I downloaded them to look at what they actually say.

2026-07-18
John Paul Helveston

Making {logitr} dramatically faster with Claude Code

I’d been putting off adding a compiled backend to {logitr} for years because I knew it would take weeks of work. With Claude Code I did it in two days.

2026-07-03
John Paul Helveston

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Quarto

Why you should start asking your favorite LLM (cough Claude cough) to produce .qmd files

2026-05-13
John Paul Helveston

Everything I Know About Back Pain

A summary of everything I’ve learned about managing and recovering from back pain for over a decade.

2026-03-21
John Paul Helveston

Introducing {surveydown}: A markdown-based framework for generating surveys with Quarto and shiny (that now exists!!!)

A quick overview of the {surveydown} R package for making markdown-based surveys with open-source technologies: Quarto, shiny, and supabase.

2024-08-10
John Paul Helveston

{surveydown}: An open source, markdown-based survey framework (that doesn’t exist yet)

Let’s build this, who’s with me?

2023-04-06
John Paul Helveston

Render parameterized reports with Quarto

A quick how-to guide for making reports in Quarto with custom parameters, and a couple fixes for some current limitations.

2023-02-28
John Paul Helveston

Why chess is a better game than golf

I asked ChatGPT to write this blog post. Here’s what it came up with.

2022-12-26
John Paul Helveston

Introducing the {renderthis} package

A brief introduction to the {renderthis} package for rendering {xaringan} slides to different output types (previously called {xaringanBuilder})

2022-06-28
John Paul Helveston

Simulating the Squid Game bridge scene in R

A simple monte carlo simulation of the expected number of survivors from the Squid Game bridge scene Contains Spoilers

2021-10-19
John Paul Helveston

Choice-based conjoint surveys in R with formr

A how-to guide for using R to design and implement choice-based conjoint surveys using formr.org

2021-09-18
John Paul Helveston

In search of keyboard nirvana

My journey to find a more ergonomic (and useful) keyboard

2021-07-03
John Paul Helveston

Expand your productivity with espanso

Custom text snippets with espanso: a text expander written in Rust

2021-05-04
John Paul Helveston

Customizing distill with {htmltools} and CSS

How I added lots of little features to my distill site with the {htmltools} package, CSS, and a handful of little R functions.

2021-03-25
John Paul Helveston
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