The Nextjournal Blog
Follow along with what’s going on at Nextjournal, and the topics we’re passionate about.
Nextjournal’s New Command Interface ✨
What if being a power user were the default?
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🛠 Bootstrapping our CI
Introducing Nextjournal CI, or how Nextjournal is building itself.
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🔭 Github Notebook Explorer
A new, quick way to browse and run Github-hosted notebooks on the fly.
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🧙♀️ Better Clojure Editing
Precise evaluation, structural editing, lightning-fast syntax highlighting & much more.
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Hello IPyWidgets 👋
Our Jupyter runtimes now fully support rendering standard IPyWidgets and Plotly Figure Widgets.
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A Redesigned Dashboard
We redesigned our dashboard to show more of what’s relevant and make it easier to find what you’re looking for.
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Better Sharing Controls
We overhauled Nextjournal’s sharing controls to have one unified place for all sharing settings and clear-up the distinction between public and private.
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Improved Jupyter Display Support
Nextjournal’s Jupyter runtimes now fully support all of Jupyter’s display kernel messages.
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2019 Round Up 🍾
It has been an exciting year at Nextjournal. Our users have done a lot of great work since our launch in May, some of which we want to highlight here.
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Fluid Document Editing
We just released a new version of our editor offering a much more fluid writing experience.
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Towards Model-Driven Authoring: What’s Missing?
Where are the tools to create explorable explanations?
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Towards Reproducibility: Git
A principled approach is needed to solve computational reproducibility: applying immutability on the systems level.
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No, your ten rules aren’t simple and they won’t fix Reproducibility
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Walk the Walk: Reproducibility all the way down
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Plotting with Vega-Lite
Nextjournal now fully supports displaying Vega-Lite plots in your notebooks. Read on and learn how it works.
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Preserving Filenames for Uploads & Results
Preserving filenames will offer better integration with tools that expect files to carry certain extensions.
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Launch: Nextjournal Public Beta
We're excited to announce that we've opened signups on Nextjournal today and we invite everybody to join the public beta.
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Get started with Nextjournal now.
Sign up is free. You can import your existing Jupyter, IPython and RMarkdown notebooks.
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