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ouseful.info, the blog... is a personal blog at blog.ouseful.info about data and programming. Since 2010, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Generating Diagrams from Text Generated by ChatGPT”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Once, my home for trying to find useful things to do with emerging technologies in open education and data journalism. Snarky and sweary to anyone who emails to offer me content for the site.
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- /2022/02/11/sql-databases-in-the-browser-via-wasm-sqlite-and-duckdb/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-05-22
- Generating Diagrams from Text Generated by ChatGPT3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-02-23
What Hacker News says?
and a more jupyter-centric agree/reply by Tony Hirst: https://blog.ouseful.info/2017/11/15/programming-meh-lets-te...
Comment linking /2017/11/15/programming-meh-lets-teach-how-to-write-computational-essays-instead/
on “Estimating Number of Jupyter Notebooks on Github”Submitted Mapping How Programming Languages Influenced Each Other According to Wikipedia as a story · 42 points
HN discussionIt probably wouldn't be suitable for a blog or classic CRUD app. The use cases I've heard about are more for education and online editor/IDE. For example: interactive documentation that runs code in the browser with an ephemeral/temporary database, possibly imported from the user's desktop. For teaching programming languages in the browser, with the compiler compiled to WASM, so the student doesn't have to set up a…
Comment linking /2022/02/11/sql-databases-in-the-browser-via-wasm-sqlite-and-duckdb/
on “The Future of the Web Is on the Edge”Submitted Google Lock-In Lock-Out as a story · 9 points
HN discussion> The point of much of the "SQLite hype" is that there are many applications where read load is high and queries complicated, but the write load is low to non-existent. In situations like these, you can make do with a smaller DB than Postgres. Sure, but my point is that unless you know for sure your app will stay the same forever, why not just use Postgres or something more flexible to begin with? With things like S…
Comment linking /2022/02/11/sql-databases-in-the-browser-via-wasm-sqlite-and-duckdb/
on “SQLite may become foundational for digital progress”Submitted Docker as a Personal Application Runner as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPerplexity.ai processes Bing search results through GPT-3. It works really well, and you can see the prompt they use at https://blog.ouseful.info/2022/12/09/combing-chatgpt-and-sea...
Comment linking /2022/12/09/combing-chatgpt-and-search/
on “Sundar Pichai: An important next step on our AI journey”Submitted When Documents Become Databases – R Wrapper for Tabula PDF Table Extractor as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf someone were to try to do a bulk download of the data (well, or whatever they thought was the most significant data) through the API for preservation purposes, might it put an undue load on your server infrastructure? Some kind of bulk data download might be useful insurance there. There seem to be some interesting efforts to run SQLite in the browser so that server infrastructure only has to provide bulk data ac…
Comment linking /2022/02/11/sql-databases-in-the-browser-via-wasm-sqlite-and-duckdb/
on “The Materials Project”Submitted Course Management and Collaborative Jupyter Notebooks via SageMathCloud as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSeems like a popular thing to do, but probably time consuming (I probably have dozens more URLs but i'd have to search a lot of laptops, delicious, and... remember magnolia?) http://blog.fogus.me/2012/05/02/a-functional-programming-inf... http://blog.fogus.me/2012/06/07/an-object-oriented-influence... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3920619 http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/paradigms.html (the Dewey decimal system…
Comment linking /2012/07/03/mapping-how-programming-languages-influenced-each-other-according-to-wikipedia/
on “Programming languages influence network”Submitted Sports Data and R – Scope for a Thematic (Rather Than Task) View? (Living Post) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionthere's a good R/Jupyter blog discussing the same concept but without as much SW snark that HN comments always seem to have: https://blog.ouseful.info/2017/11/15/programming-meh-lets-te...
Comment linking /2017/11/15/programming-meh-lets-teach-how-to-write-computational-essays-instead/
on “What Is a Computational Essay?”Submitted Using Google Spreadsheets Like a Database as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou can look at alternative articles such as: http://blog.ouseful.info/2008/10/14/data-scraping-wikipedia-...
Comment linking /2008/10/14/data-scraping-wikipedia-with-google-spreadsheets/
on “Web Scraping with Google Spreadsheets and XPath”Submitted Generating Diagrams from Text Generated by ChatGPT as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttp://computationalculture.net/rss https://2019.wattenberger.com/rss https://austinhenley.com/blog/feed.rss https://blog.ouseful.info/feed https://jakelazaroff.com/rss.xml https://joshmpollock.com/feed.xml https://lilianweng.github.io/index.xml https://maggieappleton.com/rss.xml https://runzhe-yang.science/feed.xml https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/feed/ https://thesephist.com/index.xml https://topos.site/blog/ind…
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on “Ask HN: Show me your RSS feed subscriptions”Submitted Running PostgreSQL and Jupyter Notebook within a browser as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThat is cool. TIL. Reading this article now: https://blog.ouseful.info/2022/12/12/generating-diagrams-fro...
Comment linking /2022/12/12/generating-diagrams-from-text-generated-by-chatgpt/
on “Mermaid Cheat Sheet”Submitted Generating Diagrams from Text Generated by ChatGPT as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some Recent Noticings from the Jupyter Ecosystem as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spotting Potential Battles in F1 Races as a story · 1 points
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