While pulling together some data today for our latest Water Matters podcast, I was surprised by the dry streak we’ve been in. The last above average monsoon here was 2018. (Episode posts tomorrow – 6/23 – I’ll try to remember to update the post with a link.)

Also, I’ve been trying to up my data visualization game. For years I’ve had an R->ggplot work flow, doing the analysis in R and using it to generate most of the graphs I post on Inkstain as static image files. New LLM-based tools (I used Claude Code for this one) dramatically reduce the friction and make it possible (I originally wrote “make it easy,” but I’m still getting the hang of the form) to make them pointy-clicky.