#493: Quarto: Open-source technical publishing 2c4h5w

09/02/2025

In this episode, I'm ed by JJ Allaire, founder and executive chairman at Posit, and Carlos...

In this episode, I'm ed by JJ Allaire, founder and executive chairman at Posit, and Carlos Scheidegger, a software engineer at Posit, to explore Quarto, an open-source tool revolutionizing technical publishing. We discuss how Quarto empowers s to seamlessly transform Jupyter notebooks into polished reports, dashboards, e-books, websites, and more. JJ shares his journey from creating RStudio to developing Quarto as a versatile, multi-language tool, while Carlos delves into its roots in reproducibility and the challenges of academic publishing. Don't miss this deep dive into a tool that's shaping the future of data-driven storytelling!

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Links from the show JJ Allaire
JJ on LinkedIn: linkedin.com
JJ on GitHub: github.com

Carlos Scheidegger
Personal site: cscheid.net
Mastodon: @scheidegger

Fast AI: fast.ai
nbdev: nbdev.fast.ai
nbsanity - Share Notebooks as Polished Web Pages in Seconds: answer.ai
Pandoc: pandoc.org
Observable: github.com
Quarto Pub: quartopub.com
Deno: deno.com
Real World Data Science site: realworlddatascience.net
Typst: typst.app
Github Actions for Quarto: github.com
Watch this episode on YouTube: youtube.com
Episode transcripts: talkpython.fm

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