An English professor redesigned her composition and literature courses to center on handwritten notebooks and commonplace books, moving away from digital tools. She aims to help students engage more deeply with material through writing, observation, and community note-taking practices inspired by eighteenth-century learning methods.
marimo notebooks now support Pixi, enabling users to declare both Conda and PyPI dependencies inline within notebooks. This allows standalone notebooks to be shared with all requirements recorded alongside the code, which can be executed interactively or as scripts using Pixi or uv.
Local-First Conf 2026 concluded with videos now published, featuring talks on local LLMs, desktop UX, and the Ink & Switch team's work on local-first software systems like Patchwork and PlayBook. The conference expanded with a third Lab Day including interactive sessions, prototypes, and collaborative workshops on computational knitting and programmable notebooks.