Issue 2020-W33
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This week has been about a Git reimplementation, Git for data, the struggles of Mozilla, a dictionary, geospatial information in SQLite and futures with slime.
# Git for Data: Not a Silver Bullet
An article reflecting on The Rise of DataOps and describing a more classic append-only log approach to deal with how data changes over time and keep enough reproducibility guarantees.
# Mozilla: The Greatest Tech Company Left Behind
An article reflecting on the impact of the recent layoffs in Mozilla.
You might also be interested in Web browsers need to stop, a short rant on the state of web browsers in 2020.
Finally, Open Standards are simple is a somewhat related article making a few interesting points on the effects of complexity in openness.
# gitoxide
A reimplementation of Git written in Rust. It is still not feature complete but the foundations are already there.
# One look
A dictionary search with partial word search.
# Beyond Smart Rocks
An article touching on possible replacements for our current computers and in particular on the potential of slime.
# GeoPackage
A format to structure geospatial information in SQLite.
A couple of weeks back I played with the UK geospatial information which crystallised in Addresspack which is a tool to transform the odd format Ordnance Survey provides to a ready to use SQLite database.
The good news is that now they are improving and starting to offer data in GeoPackage which, besides using SQLite, defines a particular way to lay the geospatial data.