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I’ve also started building my curated list of blogs after reading the recent HN posts. If anyone’s interested it is at https://blogs.sirodoht.com/

That is an amazing list, many very good blogs there. Bookmarked, thanks!

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I see all the data is stored in one JSON file in GitHub. [link redacted]

Can I ask, why JSON, and why one file?

I'm interested because I'm currently slowly working on an Open Source tool for this use case - community data sets in Git. However I think it's better to have one file per entry. (Easier to edit, much less chances of merge conflicts.) Also while it's currently based a lot round JSON (so we can leverage several useful existing tools like JSON Schema) I'd like to add a YML/TOML/MD-with-meta-data option later as I think that's easier for humans to read and edit (and also because I've already seen several Git repos that follow this format).

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I see all the data is stored in one JSON file in GitHub. [link redacted] Can I ask, why JSON, and why one file? I'm interested because I'm currently slowly working on an Open Source tool for this use case - community data sets in Git. However I think it's better to have one file per entry. (Easier to edit, much less chances of merge conflicts.) Also while it's currently based a lot round JSON (so we can leverage seve…

It's a good question.

I wanted it to be easy to copy and share and since I didn't think curation should add anything that fits the bill, using a single file would limit the number of items people would add to their curation. JSON also has a small limitation in the fields that it cannot have multiline strings which was originally supposed to force to shorten the description.

But yeah you are probably right, I will do something to migrate it later into a directory of files.

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I see all the data is stored in one JSON file in GitHub. [link redacted] Can I ask, why JSON, and why one file? I'm interested because I'm currently slowly working on an Open Source tool for this use case - community data sets in Git. However I think it's better to have one file per entry. (Easier to edit, much less chances of merge conflicts.) Also while it's currently based a lot round JSON (so we can leverage seve…

It's a good question. I wanted it to be easy to copy and share and since I didn't think curation should add anything that fits the bill, using a single file would limit the number of items people would add to their curation. JSON also has a small limitation in the fields that it cannot have multiline strings which was originally supposed to force to shorten the description. But yeah you are probably right, I will do…

Ok - can you let me know when you do? I'm looking for real world uses of this idea.

For future reference, https://github.com/DataTig/DataTig - but, er, I haven't written any documentation yet.

You can ping me on an issue there or reply to this comment.

> limit the number of items people would add to their curation

Interesting. I suspect there is a natural limit anyway to how much data one person could curate, given the demands to keep it up to date. It would be interesting to see what a tools UI would encourage/discourage here.

> supposed to force to shorten the description

JSON Schema can set text length limits.

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#17
That's really cool! I remember checking prototype a day or two ago and now it's finished - great job!

I have an idea of making something like "read next" on medium or openring[1] as a service. It's in a very early stage right now, but if you run a personal blog - ping me(info in the profile) I would like to ask a few questions ;)

[1] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/openring

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I’ve also started building my curated list of blogs after reading the recent HN posts. If anyone’s interested it is at https://blogs.sirodoht.com/

Great list - a lot to explore. (and I'm tickled to have found my blog on it - thank you)
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