Notes

From jq to Nushell

Published on November 16, 2023

This note has been superseded by the jq vs Nushell cookbook. Check it out!

Where I translate The Ultimate Interactive JQ Guide to Nushell.

Cookie monsters

Published on October 14, 2023

Where I analyse how cookies are littering the world. For this exercise I'll be using Nushell to wrangle with Firefox Profile data enriched with data coming from the Multi-Account Containers add-on.

Building a SQLite extension with Rust

Published on April 2, 2023

This note captures my experience building a SQLite extension in Rust.

Bulletin report (2022)

Published on January 1, 2023

This report summarises the publication of the bulletin in 2022.

Dive into Lightroom catalogues

Published on February 14, 2022

This note captures my learnings on the contents of the Adobe Lightroom catalogues, particularly its “Library” module.

Bulletin report (2021)

Published on January 2, 2022

This report summarises the publication of the bulletin in 2021.

Moving away from Gatsby

Published on August 10, 2021

This note logs my thinking on moving Seachess from Gatsby to a custom system.

TOML dates

Published on July 12, 2021

This note captures my experience using TOML with Serde in Rust, particularly whilst using dates.

Bulletin report (2020)

Published on January 3, 2021

This report summarises the publication of the bulletin in 2020.

Dive into Frictionless Data

Published on December 25, 2020

This note captures my personal views on “Frictionless Tabular Data Package”, a specification to provide metadata for CSV files.

Review: nushell v0.21.0

Published on November 1, 2020

This note captures my review on Nushell v0.21.0 released on 2020-10-13.

Dive into CSV on the Web

Published on October 7, 2020

This note captures my personal views on “CSV on the Web”, a specification to provide metadata for CSV files.

Ten years with the ISO 8601 gem

Published on July 25, 2020

Ten years ago, I had a need to record information about the duration of my tasks. I was already familiar with the ISO8601 specification to encode dates and times so it felt natural to use the same specification to encode durations in my dataset.

Addresspack

Published on June 11, 2020

This note describes my efforts in processing AddressBase from Ordnance Survey into SQLite.

Git grafting

Published on April 23, 2020

This note describes how to extract part of a Git repository and graft it into another repository.

What is an API?

Published on October 12, 2019

Lately, I find myself having to explain what is an API to co-workers and friends. This note attempts to explain it.

A dive into the Link header

Published on June 22, 2019

This note describes my current understanding of the Link header as defined by the IETF RFC8288.