https://nanx.me/tags/toolchain/ Recent content in toolchain on Nan Xiao | 肖楠 Hugo -- gohugo.io en Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:42:00 +0000 https://nanx.me/blog/post/revdeprun/ Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:42:00 +0000 https://nanx.me/blog/post/revdeprun/ Smoke and speed: a race car mid-drift on the track. Photo by Jack Stapleton. Update (2025-10-31): revdeprun 1.0.0 switched to using a custom workflow to pre-install binary dependencies for checking reverse dependencies, and run parallel checks using xfun::rev_check(). This significantly improves performance and reliability. Read the release notes here. This post has been updated to reflect these changes. I’m glad to announce the release of revdeprun, a Rust CLI tool that makes it easy to run reverse dependency checks on cloud instances1. https://nanx.me/blog/post/ggsci-python/ Mon, 15 Sep 2025 02:05:00 +0000 https://nanx.me/blog/post/ggsci-python/ Cliff Walk at Pourville (1882) by Claude Monet: two women on a grassy cliff above the sea under a bright sky. Public domain. Source: Art Institute of Chicago. I’m thrilled to announce the release of py-ggsci, a Python package that brings the popular ggsci color palettes from R’s ggplot2 ecosystem to Python’s plotnine library. You can install py-ggsci from PyPI: pip install ggsci Here is a quick example using the Observable 10 palette introduced in ggsci 3.