Observable Notebook Kit and Desktop 1.3.0 are out, featuring data loader cells. You can now (finally!!) write Python and Node.js in notebooks. 🐍 https://t.co/0dTfTBSSzV

Please try out Observable Desktop and Observable Notebook Kit today. We’d love your feedback, bug reports, ideas, etc.!

And last, the new editor’s AI is pretty mind-blowing 🤯, focused on quick ideation and iteration…

Third, we’ve built a whole new streamlined editor for Notebooks, focused on a clean interface and a great developer experience.

Second, Notebooks 2.0 is now (finally) vanilla JavaScript! It’s the standard syntax that works everywhere and like you expect. Say goodbye to quirky Observable JavaScript, and hello to const, let, static import, etc.

First and foremost, we’re unlocking file-based workflows for notebooks — edit them locally, check them into git, build them in CI, self-host them as superfast static sites, integrate them into custom apps, etc. etc. We’re doubling down on file over app.

Notebooks 2.0 is here! 📓🔮 Previewing today: Notebook Kit, an open notebook file format and tooling for building static sites; and Observable Desktop, a macOS desktop application for editing notebooks as local files, with a radical new approach to AI.

We chatted with award-winning journalist and Reuters applications editor @palewire about building back-end data pipelines for data journalism. Learn how he's cutting down the time data journalists spend writing code, to make time for more important work: https://t.co/Y1zEDuMIYC

Curious how donations to candidates spike & ebb in response to current events? So was Ryan Murphy, creator of the popular ActBlue Ticker Tracker notebook on Observable. Ryan joined us to share a behind the scenes view into why & how he made it: https://t.co/2ohPEWjy7L

For Crankstart’s new Streets to Stability report, @jasonforrestftw & team used Observable Framework to build a customized, interactive site highlighting the current state of homelessness in SF, and reimagining a future state. See the impactful new piece: https://t.co/Ut8CQXO7vs

JSR imports in Observable!

Learn more about our approach to embedded analytics here:

Observable Framework 1.12 is here! Big 🆕 features: exported modules & files to power embedded analytics; @jsr_io imports; improved layout with more sidebar customization; broken link detection. And lots more!

Observable Cloud is live! 🚀 We’re helping data teams realize their full potential by shipping best-in-class, blazingly fast data apps directly to users.

🚀 Big news! We’ve launched Observable Cloud — a game-changer for deploying and managing Framework data apps. Deliver performant data apps with scheduled builds and deploy-on-commit for dashboards that are smarter, always up-to-date, and CI/CD ready. https://t.co/kUYuIwthHa

Observable Framework 1.11 🆕 adds parameterized routes and page loaders for dynamically generating pages!

New waffle mark 🧇 docs here:

See the full release notes here:

Observable Plot 0.6.16 🆕 is out! Adds a waffle 🧇 mark, tips for the geo mark, more support for GeoJSON & Apache Arrow data, more options for rounded corners, and a bunch of other improvements and bug fixes.

⚡ The @observablehq docs now include an example of how we use its static-site framework at Reuters. https://t.co/5ycp3IKcvg The new page shows how we publish data-heavy viz made in JS as lightweight PNGs. I used to take gnarly screenshots. Now I can easily automate the job!