Issues from 2021

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2021-W51

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This week has been about Jupyter games, CLI complexity, customisable UI with Python, a neural search engine, a tool for versioned JSON and CSV and a paper on the value of data.

2021-W50

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This week has been about Jamstack jargon, a data generator in Rust, a self-contained HTTP server for files, a tool to organise image boards, a comparison between WebAssembly and Kubernetes and a paper on value-oriented and object-oriented programming languages.

2021-W49

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This week has been about a lightweight search engine, a dive into containers, DNS propagation, a tool to visualise tidyverse, a reverse dictionary and pocket mass surveillance.

2021-W48

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This week has been about parametric curves and surfaces, a tool to manage Cloudflare workers with Deno, a replication extension for SQLite, a Markdown editor, an article on merge queues and a lightweight alternative to React.

2021-W47

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This week has been about open software licensing, WebAssembly for user-defined functions, a personal knowledge base, a Python type checker, confidential computing and an algorithm to merge rich-text changes.

2021-W46

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This week has been about statistical accuracy vs privacy protection, an open-source alternative to Notion, a parsing toolkit for Python, the International Components for Unicode, a book on Knowledge Graphs and a service to convert web pages into ePub.

2021-W45

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This week has been about interoperability between JSON parsers, an introduction to Unicode, a Python library for graph manipulation, the TypeScript type checker, options for writing Python extensions and patterns that lead to learned helplessness.

2021-W44

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This week has been about managing data science projects, DuckDB in WebAssembly, the Helix editor, the security of Unicode in programming languages, 3D models and the inners of a terminal emulator.

2021-W43

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This week has been about k-anonymity, computer networks, probabilistic logic programming, an analytical platform, an experimental query language and some thoughts on the forgetting curve.

2021-W42

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This week has been about securing APIs, an embedded document-oriented SQL database, a comments system powered by GitHub Discussions, Prolog in Rust, new standard HTTP headers for caching and a Make tutorial.

2021-W41

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This week has been about calculus, plugin systems, the trade-offs of Conda, an investigation on Amazon, animated data stories and a browser extension for ePUB.

2021-W40

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This week has been about RDF storage trade-offs, JupyerLab desktop application, API mocking, threat mitigation from Web APIs, the effect of words in a conversation and the line of death in browsers.

2021-W39

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This week has been about how to get a flat map of the Earth, Web3.Storage, a tool to view formatted CSV, an embedded graph database, an online SQLite playground and the impact of CSS on accessibility.

2021-W38

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This week has been about the bizarre world of timezones, the benefits of using Poetry in Python, an animation library in JavaScript, a report on data stewardship and a warning on Let's Encrypt root certificate.

2021-W37

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This week has been about software licensing, macaroons, a file encryption tool, CUBE CSS, anger management and the levels of reading.

2021-W36

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This week has been about a tool to query a codebase, a strongly-typed document database, a tool to query HTML, Matrix privacy considerations, a paper classifying different types of biases and security concerns in GraphQL.

2021-W35

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This week has been about Firefox containers, a DSL for binary structures, a PIC implementation, API security issues, Podman containers, and a toolkit to develop graphical interfaces.

2021-W34

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This week has been about hyperlinks, Postgres extensions in Rust, Miller, nanoSQL and DMARC.

2021-W33

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This week has been about the history of the pixel, base64, inferential statistical modelling, a vim-like browser, the shortcomings of CSV and the beauty of Bézier curves.

2021-W32

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This week has been about bloom filters, procedural fish drawings, data visualisation in Python, casual inference, and a bit on browser wars.

2021-W31

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This week has been about executable PNGs, burnout, a graph configuration language, D3 tutorials, HTTP/2 security and the tyranny spreadsheets.

2021-W30

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This week has been about WebRTC, Electron security, WebAssembly at the edge, securing GraphQL and the bad parts of Julia.

2021-W29

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This week has been about tech vs data, WebAssembly modules with wasmi, optimising a graph visualisation, Hypothesis annotation management, a distributed search engine and a bit of history on terminals and consoles.

2021-W28

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This week has been about webhooks vs events, a collection of programming languages, password manager security, TOML validator, web type scales and personal knowledge graphs.

2021-W27

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This week has been about taking notes with SQLite, a SQLite with branches, a CloudFlare Worker simulator, pnpm and a criticism to SQL.

2021-W26

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This week has been about cybersecurity countermeasures, web colours, an alternative to HTTPie, an easy TeX/LaTeX, and in-process document store and CLAs in open source.

2021-W25

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This week has been about poisoning machine learning models, transforming formats into SQLite, the Grain language, OpenLineage and Verkle trees.

2021-W24

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This week has been about managing software dependencies, files as sets, metadata management, tab hoarding and dynamic types in Rust.

2021-W23

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This week has been about FLoC privacy, matrix-based graphs, APL, Photopea and Lean.

2021-W22

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This week has been about JupyterLba in the browser, distributed systems, interactive GPG management and QUIC.

2021-W21

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This week has been about Node.js on the browser, an immutable database, hiding SPARQL behind GraphQL, anothe python package manager and a cli game.

2021-W20

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This week has been about custom URL scheme security risk, a Python library for data analysis, monitoring and sensitive data detection, Electron security risks, Dataflow local notebooks, Flat Data and Wardley Maps.

2021-W19

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This week has been about bash scripts in JavaScript, a browser-based IDE, patterns for Web Components, a book on networks, visually programming machine learning and Zulip.

2021-W18

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This week has been about a programming language for the Law, a collection of colour palettes, a terminal workspace, static web with SQLite and a collection of hand-drawn illustrations.

2021-W17

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This week has been about CSS custom properties, structuring technical documentation, API security, an embedded document database, data analysis with SQL and a datalog to SQL compiler.

2021-W16

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This week has been about an API collection, M1 floating point calculations, interactive Git, more on FLoC, complexity in distributed systems and an event processing system.

2021-W15

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This week has been about UI components, PostgreSQL as a graph, notebooks in Elixir, blocking Google tracking and a tool for managing your work.

2021-W14

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This week has been about Google tracking, Rust macros, WebAssembly search engines, CSS Grids and Obsidian.

2021-W13

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This week has been about GPU.js, the downsides of SQL, the politics in Machine Learning and Git workflows.

2021-W12

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This week has been about Parquet, React grids, Datalog and calculations for latitude/longitude points.

2021-W11

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This week has been about low-code in Node.js, Julia and Bayesian statistics, generative art with SVG and Prolog.

2021-W10

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This week has been about game of life experiments, JavaScript for data programming, static APIs and violin plots.

2021-W09

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This week has been about cuboids in CSS, machine learning version control, server-sent and web spatial mapping.

2021-W08

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This week has been about Deno, SQLite in Rust, GraphQL, JSON alternatives, NFTs and a comment system.

2021-W07

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This week has been about MS-DOS games, a data constraint language, a functional puzzle game, WebAssembly memory management and CSS transitions.

2021-W06

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This week has been about web browsers, neovim, dependency confusion, ssh tunnels and unthinking intelligence.

2021-W05

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This week has been about asdf, text-based games, Turing incomplete languages, Disqus bad practices and software licensing.

2021-W04

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This week has been about StrictMark, bacon-sci, semantic web research, JerryScript and a collection of static site generators.

2021-W03

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This week has been about category theory, exploring HTML from the command-line, a SQL linter, visual programming and the meaning of open source.

2021-W02

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This week has been about colours, NLP, design patterns in Rust, taking notes and SQLite encryption.

2021-W01

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This week has been about preql, sqlite, web component styling, apache arrow and hexagonal grids.