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This is the = command that adds a new column based on a Python expression you provide. You can reference the cells in the current row based on the column name. It is also possible …

Try asking on https://github.com/saulpw/visidata the community there can help. I am seeing this issue on a Mac with ghostty but not with wezterm, from the same binary. Ghostty show…

Thank you for doing this, this is fun. Also, I love all the nostalgic comments. I'm surprised no one has mentioned Robert Tinney the artist who illustrated many of the covers. His …

One my favorite tools is Visidata ( https://www.visidata.org/ ). It is great for viewing and working with data in the terminal. It is useful if you need to quickly explore data and…

One of my favorite tools. However, I don’t think that Visidata is a spreadsheet, even though it looks like one and is named after one. It is more spreadsheet adjacent. It is focuse…

This works great with terminals that can handle ligatures. I've used it with Kitty and recently tried it with Ghostty. The author shows several different examples using the fonts t…

If you are interested in this subject, Carl Zimmer wrote a great book that has all sorts of examples of parasites that control their host: "Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World o…

Atul Gawande is a surgeon by training and an exceptional writer. He has authored several other wonderful books, known for his ability to explain complex topics in an accessible way…

There was a lot of effort to add many more help guides that provide context-sensitive help where you need it. The main complaint I’ve read from people is that VisiData is too compl…

This is cool. I'll mention an alternative way to visualize Venn diagrams are UpSet Plots. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UpSet_plot [2]: https://upset.app/ -- points to multipl…

I would add another site to the list: https://inconsolation.wordpress.com/ You can find reviews of hundreds of CLI And TUI programs, some great, others barely known and clearly for…

I don't think this would work as a lesspipe.sh viewer, since it is interactive. I have wanted this for VisiData for data files. You would need a wrapper around less that could star…

This looks really nice, I hope it does well. It reminds me that I miss https://inconsolation.wordpress.com/ ended. It had all sorts of great and humorous reviews on terminal based …

Nice to see progress on Oils. The blog post talks about some screencasts, does anyone know where those are?

This fx rewrite is very exciting. I'll have to try it. I thought of fx as a wrapper around jq, that allowed quick iteration over building jq scripts. Sort of an Ultimate Plumber [1…

I also find VisiData is useful for adhoc exploring of JSON data. You can also use it to explore multiple other formats. I find it really helpful, plus it gives that little burst of…

I would be interested to see what an LLM could make out of this archive. How it might categorize the threads or how it might help make sense of it. Vikram's manual curation is the …

Actually the Vikram said he had initially added a search feature and it didn't appear to be very useful. He says: search is an awful way to curate text when your readers don't know…

The e-mail archive of one Atari Engineer, Jed Margolin, who worked in the CoinOp division of Atari. Jed was a hardware engineer at Atari from 1979 to 1992, and these messages compr…

The VisiData developers created a fun multi-part data wrangling puzzle last year called the Hanukkah of Data [1]. It is not specific to any tool, so you can use command line tools,…

Jeremy Springer-Vine, the Data Editor, BuzzFeed News talks about the data efforts that underpinned the FinCEN Files. I wonder if this was today, if they would have used AI data-scr…