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Danielle Navarro
Personal blog · blog.djnavarro.netprogrammingdatadesign
Danielle Navarro writes Notes from a data witch, a personal blog at blog.djnavarro.net about programming, data and design. Since 2021, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Mastodon Is Awesome”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-17, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Danielle Navarro's blog is linked as a reference for Apache Arrow, including a post on unpacking Arrow for working with very large datasets.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog by Danielle Navarro
Most-linked posts?
- Mastodon Is Awesome2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-05
- A foundation in Julia (programming language, 3-Part series)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-10
What Hacker News says?
On mastodon you have three timelines/feeds: local, federated and global. Local is for posts local to your instance. Federated is local + posts from other instances, from people that are followed by somebody on your instance. Global is for any posts from anyone. For example: if you join art instance your local feed will be very artsy and federated feed will be slightly artsy. It matters little, because most people us…
Comment linking /posts/2022-11-03_what-i-know-about-mastodon/
on “PeerTube mobile app: discover videos while caring for your attention”Submitted Mastodon Is Awesome as a story · 108 points
HN discussionHere are some cookbook examples: https://arrow.apache.org/cookbook/py/data.html#group-a-table , https://arrow.apache.org/cookbook/ . Datasets would probably be a good approach for the billions size, see: https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2022-11-30_unpacking-arrow-...
Comment linking /posts/2022-11-30_unpacking-arrow-datasets/
on “Demystifying Apache Arrow”Submitted When good pseudorandom numbers go bad as a story · 71 points
HN discussionSubmitted The trouble with 'ntile()' as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything I know about Mastodon as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted A foundation in Julia (programming language, 3-Part series) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Two Githubs, One Laptop as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linear Cosine Palettes(2025) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some Notes on Probability Judgement as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generative Art Resources in R as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Separating sex and gender is statistical malpractice as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes from a data witch – A foundation in Julia as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Extracting tables from pdf files with tabulizer as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
