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by rufuspollock 20d ago
Exactly
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by rufuspollock 20d ago
You're absolutely right ... and this is more for a personal database (the way most people use Notion). Strictly we could have titled this: the markdown database pattern for small personal databases. The point was that for personal use
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by rufuspollock 20d ago
I love astro content collections. Built https://markdowndb.com/ to have something system agnostic.
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by rufuspollock 20d ago
Yes it is markdown plus frontmatter that makes this work. Point on comparison with other formats is really well taken. I think the main argument i would have is ubiquity of markdown and markdown tooling.
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by rufuspollock 20d ago
Cool Hadn't seen this before and will check it out - and add to the Way of Markdown
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by rufuspollock 20d ago
I really liked Logseq though i've ended up an Obsidian (and now mostly AI + markdown) user.
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Markdown Database Pattern(wayofmarkdown.com)
51 points by rufuspollock 21d ago|26 comments
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by rufuspollock 2mo ago
Super cool. I've been trying it out for publishing some of my own datasets.
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Show HN: Flowershow Publish Markdown in seconds. Hosted, free, zero config(flowershow.app)
7 points by rufuspollock 6mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: ScreenshotIt – What if a screenshot was just a URL?(screenshotit.app)
5 points by rufuspollock 7mo ago|0 comments
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by rufuspollock 2y ago
Hi, i'm one of the co-creators. Let me know if you have any questions.
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by rufuspollock 3y ago
Totally! We're really love plain-text pkm. We have this overall sense that "markdown is eating the world" in the sense that it is becoming a more and more ubiquitous and powerful format. What i would term "markdown plus&
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Show HN: MarkdownDB open-source library giving you an SQL API to Markdown files(markdowndb.com)
10 points by rufuspollock 3y ago|2 comments
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by rufuspollock 5y ago
I take the point and perhaps one could think about what is useful to the "middle ground" of the uninitiated e.g. the policy-makers looking for some guidance, the journalists trying to make sense of the claims and counter-claims. W
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by rufuspollock 5y ago
Hi, I'm one of the folks behind this project and happy to answer any questions. If you want to know more about motivation and approach there is quite a bit of detail on https://web3.lifeitself.us/about
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Ubernomics: Platform Monopolies and How to Fix Them(rufuspollock.com)
1 points by rufuspollock 5y ago|0 comments
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by rufuspollock 5y ago
Could you reference some of the "real studies" you mention - this would help update and amend MacKay's work.
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by rufuspollock 5y ago
Just to flag that MacKay already estimated (in 2008) a Tesla at 15kwh per 100km (actually better than you have here). See Fig 20.22 on https://climate.lifeitself.us/without-hot-air/chap20/
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by rufuspollock 5y ago
> It showed how one should do a systems analysis for a country to understand how one can achieve the change required. I was astonished when I talked to several of the leading people responsible for energy policy in several political part
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by rufuspollock 5y ago
Thanks Niall - updating the book is exactly what we are hoping to do and still thinking the best form for that. Re that tool i've been in correspondence with one of the other creators re trying to understand the source code etc - see
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Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air (Revised, Community Edition)(climate.lifeitself.us)
168 points by rufuspollock 5y ago|133 comments
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by rufuspollock 8y ago
Interesting. There have been a lot of attempts at "meta data portals" that search across portals. Most of them have struggled. At Open Knowledge we built a really early one called opendatasearch.org in 2011/2012 - now defunct
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by rufuspollock 8y ago
Note Kaggle recently adopted the FrictionlessData.io Data Package specs: https://github.com/Kaggle/kaggle-api/wiki/Dataset-Metadata
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by rufuspollock 8y ago
Yes, state is still mediocre. Back in 2011 i did Chaos Computer Congress talk on "apt-get for Debian of Data". This itself came out of building the original data portal and open data catalog/hosting site in 2006 https:/
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by rufuspollock 8y ago
Suggest CSV plus a Table Schema in a nice little Data Package: https://frictionlessdata.io/data-packages/ There's a wide set of tooling for Tabular Data Packages, plus underlying data is CSV which anyone can use.