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🔗 jaredks/rumps
Ridiculously Uncomplicated macOS Python Statusbar apps - jaredks/rumps
I've been thinking about couple ideas for status bar apps that could help me at work. One of the largest barriers for me to actually build them is re-learning Objective-C (I can't believe ImageXY was almost a decade ago ) or learning Swift. Letting me write apps in Python should allow me to quickly prototype some apps and see if my ideas are actually any good. -
🔗 https://mateuszurbanowicz.com/works/tokyo_storefronts_book/
Just watched an episode of Japanology Plus that had the artist of Tokyo Storefronts on. I love the style of these storefronts, they really are the treasure of Tokyo.
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🔗 SpaceHey.com
SpaceHey.com — a space for friends. It's a place to have fun, meet friends, and be creative!
This is a brilliant remake of MySpace. I love how simple the design and how fast it loads. 34kb of Javascript sent over the wire and 33 of that is jQuery. Total page size including images, 350kb. It's the stuff of dreams these days.Back in the MySpace hey-day I liked Facebook more than MySpace for its clean and consistent design. But looking back with 20/20 hindsight I can't help but think I was remiss. MySpace was quite a special site in a special period of the web. People that maybe wouldn't ordinarily care about html or css were learning how to code them so they could customize their sites. Anything was possible.A lot of whimsy has been removed from the web as people locking themselves into the big social networks. Maybe a site like MySpace/micro.blog is a happy medium between the wild-west/running your own server and total platform lock in. -
🔗 dogsheep/healthkit-to-sqlite
Convert an Apple Healthkit export zip to a SQLite database - dogsheep/healthkit-to-sqlite
healthkit-to-sqlite is super neat. I now have an SQL-queriable db of my heart rate, runs, handwashing, sleep analysis, you name it. Even better - this data is all on device. Now to think of some fun queries... -
🔗 Personal Data Warehouses: Reclaiming Your Data
I gave a talk yesterday about personal data warehouses for GitHub’s OCTO Speaker Series, focusing on my Datasette and Dogsheep projects. The video of the talk is now available, and …
So many good ideas in this talk.- I love this idea of standardizing all of your data to sqlite databases so you can freely explore it. I also love this idea of shipping static datasets inside a sqlite db inside a Docker image so you can "scale to zero".
One thing I've been wanting to do for a while is add some kind of public dashboard for my Airbot data. Using something like Datasette I could export subsets (or all of it) to sqlite and allow you to slice and dice the data at will.Also really like the idea of having automated cron/lambda jobs setup to pull your personal data off the web automatically. Right now I'm only importing my swarm checkins / interactions with my syndicated tweets. Having some automated cron jobs to just collect the data to sqlite would allow me to explore my data much easier.There seems to be recurring theme (maybe it's the holy grail) of nerds wanting to build their own search engines/portals for all of their data. In one sense it's a "solved" problem with Spotlight and other such tools. On the other hand Spotlight and these tools don't provide you context.There was a tool that was under development in the early Mono days on (written by Nat?) that did this, at least partially. If you were chatting in Gaim it'd show you a window of your recent emails, their contact info, maybe their latest rss feeds. I've always thought a tool like this would be killer - but with so much data being up in servers and hidden behind apis and proprietary services these days it seems increasingly difficult.