2026-05-15T16:59:47+00:00 https://riverjiang.com River Jiang 2026-05-15T00:00:00+00:00 https://riverjiang.com/2026/rrd <p><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1veUUV_8QscOB0yWlgVLpqb5c7wBrLwa-PWZlUxhvuLs/edit?usp=sharing">Presentation</a></p> 2026-02-20T00:00:00+00:00 https://riverjiang.com/2026/run-jupyter <p>A bit of a doozy of an invocation to get a jupyter notebook launched locally.</p> <ul> <li>runs with <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">uv</code> so no need to install jupyter itself and keeps packages sandboxed</li> <li>uses uv’s <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">.venv</code> in current directory</li> <li>doesn’t install this kernel globally, just installs it locally within the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">.venv</code> directory</li> <li>doesn’t show the native python kernel so the venv kernel is the only one that pops up (removes need to select kernel called “venv” within jupyter lab after starting it)</li> <li>hosts on 0.0.0.0</li> <li>headless</li> <li>doesn’t require token</li> </ul> <div class="language-sh highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>uv run <span class="nt">--with</span> ipykernel python <span class="nt">-m</span> ipykernel <span class="nb">install</span> <span class="nt">--prefix</span> .venv <span class="nt">--name</span> venv <span class="o">&amp;&amp;</span> <span class="nv">JUPYTER_DATA_DIR</span><span class="o">=</span>.venv/share/jupyter uv run <span class="nt">--with</span> jupyter jupyter lab <span class="nt">--ip</span> 0.0.0.0 <span class="nt">--no-browser</span> <span class="nt">--ServerApp</span>.token<span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">''</span> <span class="nt">--KernelSpecManager</span>.ensure_native_kernel<span class="o">=</span>False </code></pre></div></div> <p>I save this as an abbreviation in my <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">fish</code> config in <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">~/.config/fish/config.fish</code>:</p> <div class="language-sh highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>abbr <span class="nt">-a</span> jupyter <span class="s2">"uv run --with ipykernel python -m ipykernel install --prefix .venv --name venv &amp;&amp; JUPYTER_DATA_DIR=.venv/share/jupyter uv run --with jupyter jupyter lab --ip 0.0.0.0 --no-browser --ServerApp.token='' --KernelSpecManager.ensure_native_kernel=False"</span> </code></pre></div></div>