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Easy Data Transform v2 ( https://www.easydatatransform.com ). It is GUI based data wrangling tool for people who aren't (or don't want to be) programmers. 20 years of running a 1-man software company in January.
I spent a week building a website that is a repository of timeless content. It generally consists of old magazine articles (though not exclusively) that you can pick up at any time and will bring value to your life. I notice most of what we consume on daily basis is ephemeral and not all that valuable outside of the moment, whereas ever-present content is always valuable. The unique angle here is that each article in…
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Awesome! Are you planning to build a bookshop or something more like a library?
we have a really great local library system where i live so what we're working on is definitely more a local store. we'll have a mix of titles based on our knowledge of community preferences (my wife is also a writer and knows much more than me about the local scene), seasonal titles (e.g. featuring new and old horror titles in october), plus events like author readings and educational seminars.
The "me database" tracking my gps for physical location, urls visited, etc.. This way I can search through all my physical and computer activity to answer questions like: how many times did I go to the gym last year? or how many leetcode questions did I do this month? Wrote a summary here ( https://theptrk.com/2024/09/27/me-database-master-plan/ )
I also played with this idea of a Memex [1] a few times already, but I always struggle with the actual usefulness of the data. Most of the time, the greatest fun for me is setting up the systems and seeing it all come together in a single database, but I tend to fall behind as soon as it is manual work to keep something updated. For location, I found that the easiest and most privacy-friendly way of doing this withou…
I tracked a work log in a "did" list for work and that was useful because you often need regular reporting (standups, perf reviews).
No one needs any location updates on how often I've been to the gym.
I’m doing a deep dive into the video games of the year 2000. The plan is to make a threejs site where I can display all my favorite games with models of their original packaging and instruction manuals. An interesting aspect of the research is that almost all published games are bad or mediocre. Wikipedia knows about ~800 video games published in the year 2000. Of those, only ~300 either piqued my interest based on d…
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One thing I realized today is that, if I’m doing an “ideal year of gaming”, there’s a limit to the hours I could spend in such a year, which puts a nice limit on how many games I can include. Maybe 100 games per year, tops. This lets me do a lot faster filtering.
I'm working on JSON BinPack ( https://jsonbinpack.sourcemeta.com ), a binary serialization format for JSON (think of it as a Protobuf alternative) with a strong focus on space-efficiency for reducing costs when transferring structured data over 5G and satellite transceivers for robotics, IoT, automotive, etc. If you work at any of those industries and pay a lot for data transfer, please reach out! I'm trying to talk…
In my day job I have multiple large json files, used in an internal in-house application, into which I serialize a database, and working with them is much faster than using the database (for some workloads). Although the main reason to do so is just for using git for source control.
In the future I plan on migrating all the code to working off the json files, but that won't happen for some time yet.
I was looking for a fast json library and that's why I discovered your paper and your project, although that was some months after I have started working on that project and it was too late to change.
Currently I use the (very slow) json.net library for most serialization/deserialization, it's fast enough for the specific places where I use them, but for some specific workload that has to be fast I use RapidJson (the code in that part is already c++), but only its streaming parser, which blazingly fast, at the cost of some development. I tried using simdjson but had trouble compiling it at the time.
By the way, in your dissertation you don't mention RapidJson, nor json.net, nor simdjson. Is there a reason why you didn't compare them?
my wife and I have a new side project: we're opening a bookshop! the last local store is closing due to retirement and we figure the community demand is still there. we're negotiating the lease, sorting out how to order a lot of bookshelves, and source the initial inventory. i'm currently figuring out how to connect our point of sale system to our accounting software. good times. :)
I’m working on a collaborative reading app called Rdrs. You can upload a ebook, create a reading group, invite others and your reading position, comments and highlights are synced live with the group. You can also read privately, and as its web-based is available on any device. I’m still in active development so there may be bugs or crashes, but I’d be very interested in your feedback. https://www.rdrs.app