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Super cool. I've been trying it out for publishing some of my own datasets.

I'm Rufus, one of the founders of Flowershow. We love markdown and use it everywhere from making websites, to docs, to knowledgebases. Plus AI splits it everywhere now. Got tired o…

What if a screenshot was just a URL? Well I built it: https://screenshotit.app/{url} → image e.g. https://screenshotit.app/news.ycombinator.com Embed directly in markdown/html etc.…

Hi, i'm one of the co-creators. Let me know if you have any questions.

Totally! We're really love plain-text pkm. We have this overall sense that "markdown is eating the world" in the sense that it is becoming a more and more ubiquitous and powerful f…

I take the point and perhaps one could think about what is useful to the "middle ground" of the uninitiated e.g. the policy-makers looking for some guidance, the journalists trying…

Hi, I'm one of the folks behind this project and happy to answer any questions. If you want to know more about motivation and approach there is quite a bit of detail on https://web…

Could you reference some of the "real studies" you mention - this would help update and amend MacKay's work.

Just to flag that MacKay already estimated (in 2008) a Tesla at 15kwh per 100km (actually better than you have here). See Fig 20.22 on https://climate.lifeitself.us/without-hot-air…

> It showed how one should do a systems analysis for a country to understand how one can achieve the change required. I was astonished when I talked to several of the leading peopl…

Thanks Niall - updating the book is exactly what we are hoping to do and still thinking the best form for that. Re that tool i've been in correspondence with one of the other creat…

Interesting. There have been a lot of attempts at "meta data portals" that search across portals. Most of them have struggled. At Open Knowledge we built a really early one called …

Note Kaggle recently adopted the FrictionlessData.io Data Package specs: https://github.com/Kaggle/kaggle-api/wiki/Dataset-Metadata

Yes, state is still mediocre. Back in 2011 i did Chaos Computer Congress talk on "apt-get for Debian of Data". This itself came out of building the original data portal and open da…

Suggest CSV plus a Table Schema in a nice little Data Package: https://frictionlessdata.io/data-packages/ There's a wide set of tooling for Tabular Data Packages, plus underlying d…