SeachessNotes
Notes, reflections and reviews.
A nushell script for the Seachess bulletin
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This note captures my approach to interacting with my database of articles I've read and shared in my weekly bulletin.
Bulletin report (2023)
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This report summarises the publication of the bulletin in 2023.
From jq to Nushell
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This note has been superseded by the jq vs Nushell cookbook.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
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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
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This note captures my experience building a SQLite extension in Rust.
Bulletin report (2022)
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This report summarises the publication of the bulletin in 2022.
Dive into Lightroom catalogues
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This note captures my learnings on the contents of the Adobe Lightroom catalogues, particularly its “Library” module.
Bulletin report (2021)
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This report summarises the publication of the bulletin in 2021.
Moving away from Gatsby
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This note logs my thinking on moving Seachess from Gatsby to a custom system.
TOML dates
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This note captures my experience using TOML with Serde in Rust, particularly whilst using dates.
Bulletin report (2020)
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This report summarises the publication of the bulletin in 2020.
Dive into Frictionless Data
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This note captures my personal views on “Frictionless Tabular Data Package”, a specification to provide metadata for CSV files.
Review: nushell v0.21.0
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This note captures my review on Nushell v0.21.0 released on 2020-10-13.
Dive into CSV on the Web
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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
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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
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This note describes my efforts in processing AddressBase from Ordnance Survey into SQLite.
Git grafting
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This note describes how to extract part of a Git repository and graft it into another repository.
What is an API?
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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
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This note describes my current understanding of the Link header as defined
by the IETF RFC8288.