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Paul Fitzpatrick
Personal blog · paulfitz.github.ioprogrammingdata
Paul Fitzpatrick's personal blog at paulfitz.github.io covers programming and data. Since 2015, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Daff: diff tabular data in JavaScript”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Paul Fitzpatrick's blog for practical data-tool write-ups, such as a git diff driver for CSV files and the daff project's data-diff introduction. One commenter praises the clarity of the daff introduction.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Daff: diff tabular data in JavaScript3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-01-29
- Daff – Align and Compare Tables2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-13
- Leprechaun Dust from DuckDuckGo2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-16
- Diff and merge CSV files in your Git client2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-04
What Hacker News says?
Whetever it works or not, I find the introduction confusing. Compare and contrast it with the clarity of these introductions: - https://git-lfs.github.com/ (Git Large File Storage) - http://paulfitz.github.io/daff/ ("data diff for tables")
Comment linking /daff/
on “Dolt is Git for data”Submitted Translate English to SQL: Progress as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThere is a git diff driver for CSV that makes the CSV diffing and merging a lot better. https://paulfitz.github.io/2014/07/09/diff-merge-csv.html Works like a charm!
Comment linking /2014/07/09/diff-merge-csv.html
on “Why isn’t there a decent file format for tabular data?”Submitted daff: data diff as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis is a really slick little utility! I'll definitely be adding it to my data munging grab bag. For those that deal with this sort of thing often, here are some similarly useful tools: ⠀ Really useful for generating table definitions and/or importing data from a csv to a variety of databases (bunch of other useful utilities in the repo as well): https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/scripts/csvsql.html Similar to…
Comment linking /daff/
on “Show HN: cq – Query CSVs using SQL”Submitted Daff – Align and Compare Tables as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Leprechaun Dust from DuckDuckGo as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Leprechaun Dust from DuckDuckGo as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Forget CSV, 2017 Is All about PSV, Poop Separated Values as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Daff: diff tabular data in JavaScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Diff and merge CSV files in your Git client as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Daff – compare tables as easily as you compare code (think “data diff”) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion