Issue 2022-W08

# Thoughts On Markdown

An article reflecting on almost 20 years of Markdown, whether it's original intent is (still) valid and what could be a way forward with a balanced set of features, extensibility and ease of entrance.

I found the article initially thought-provoking but rapidly deriving into a niche solution for solving the author's employer problems. It completely ignores situations like offline-first, overemphasises the need for real-time collaborative experiences and ignores XML all together which is at the very least a precursor of Portable Text, the solution he is pitching for.

# Nix Flakes: an introduction

An article on Nix flakes covering its objective, basic setup to enable the feature whilst it's behind the experimental flag and a run-through of using them with the Go language.

# Mito

A JupyterLab plugin to edit Pandas dataframes as spreadsheets and generate Python code corresponding to each edit.

# Type inference in ogma using graphs

An article exploring graph-based ASTs for partial compilation-based type inference. ogma, a scripting language for processing tabular data, is worth a look as well.

# Data diffs: Algorithms for explaining what changed in a dataset

An article introducing the DIFF operator for relational databases to analyse changes in schema-aligned datasets.

# Privacy Tests

An open-source initiative that subjects popular web browsers to a suite of automated tests designed to audit web browsers' privacy properties.