#datasette

[mingos-commodoreblog]

Commodore VIC 20 Advert (1983) - Internet Archive

[skatalite]

[rgb-pixelscreen]

Commodore 1530 Datasette

[nhaneh]

I don't miss the bulk and hassle of old physical media - being able to bring massive music libraries with you pretty much wherever you go pretty much effortlessly with no skips and minimal seek times is much superior to what we had before things like mp3 players became basically ubiquitous.

But I'll admit I sometimes miss the kinetic feel of things like minidiscs or cassette tapes.

Like don't get me wrong, SD cards and USB thumb drives not only house *vastly* more data than the 3.5" diskettes and tape datasettes of my childhood, but even most of the really cheap ones also tend to be significantly more reliable, especially compared to the 3.5" floppies which picked up sector faults the way magnets pick up metal fragments, but there was something satisfying about all the mechanical noises and action that was involved with some of those medias.

[foone]

Trick or Treat! I'm dressed as a Datasette for the Commodore 64!

Nice! I've got one of those around here somewhere but I don't recall where exactly.

Take a 3-Wire Butt

[val-victory]

Oricorio mail:

A warm fuzzy blanket, a walkman, and two cassettes of calm music

@blanket-anon

I'll pull out my Old Datasette to let Bit listen to the other Casette.

And thanks for the Blanket. It's very warm.

[blech]

tumblr-backup and datasette

I've been using tumblr_backup, a script that replicates the old Tumblr backup format, for a while. I use it both to back up my main blog and the likes I've accumulated; they outnumber posts over two to one, it turns out.

Sadly, there isn't an 'archive' view of likes, so I have no idea what's there from way back in 2010, when I first really heavily used Tumblr. Heck, even getting back to 2021 is hard. Pulling that data to manipulate it locally seems wise.

I was never quite sure it'd backed up all of my likes, and it turns out that a change to the API was in fact limiting it to the most recent 1,000 entries. Luckily, someone else noticed this well before I did, and a new version, tumblr-backup, not only exists, but is a Python package, which made it easy to install and run. (You do need an API key.)

I ran it using this invocation, which saved likes (-l), didn't download images (-k), skipped the first 1,000 entries (-s 1000), and output to the directory 'likes/full' (-O):

tumblr-backup -j -k -l -s 1000 blech -O likes/full 

This gave me over 12,000 files in likes/full/json, one per like. This is great, but a database is nice for querying. Luckily, jq exists:

jq -s 'map(.)' likes/full/json/*.json > likes/full/likes.json

This slurps (-s) in every JSON file, iterates over them to make a list, and then saves it in a new JSON file, likes.json. There was a follow-up I did to get it into the right format for sqlite3:

jq -c '.[]' likes/full/likes.json > likes/full/likes-nl.json

A smart reader can probably combine those into a single operator.

Using Simon Willison's sqlite-utils package, I could then load all of them into a database (with --alter because the keys of each JSON file vary, so the initial column setup is incomplete):

sqlite-utils insert likes/full/likes.db lines likes/full/likes-nl.json --nl --alter

This can then be fed into Willison's Datasette for a nice web UI to query it:

datasette serve --port 8002 likes/full/likes.d

There are a lot of columns there that clutter up the view: I'd suggest this is a good subset (it also shows the post with most notes (likes, reblogs, and comments combined) at the top):

select rowid, id, short_url, slug, blog_name, date, timestamp, liked_timestamp, caption, format, note_count, state, summary, tags, type from lines order by note_count desc limit 101

Happy excavating!

[hydralisk98]

LibreVastServitor computing stack designs 1/?

Just a quick reminder here, this is a customized computing stack manifestation game where I simply write what I desire and then let the wider universe manifest it for me whatever way that means, including personal efforts of mine. Boils down from customizing and adapting research material into a actionable series of items to manifest.

Ashur dream specifications

(mid-tower personal workstation computer)

2+ 2560x1440p monitors (one vertical, one or more horizontal)

Intel Core i5-4690 @ 3.5 GHz with its 4-cores (hoping forward to upgrade the RISC-V + OpenPOWER like processor for something decent with ~12-cores & much more open design) central processor unit

32GB of RAM

Some recent mid-range AMD GPU

64 GB Linux swap partition (mostly for virtual machines and RAMdisk partitions)

4TB+ SSD storage

Bluray burner

Floppy drive

Cassette / datasette drive

Themed GRUB bootloader

S6 init system

Arch-like package manager and software ecosystem

Customized alternative Linux kernel between Linux Libre & Zen kernel ( XanMod + Liquorix )

ZealOS, Parade, OpenBSD, OpenIndiana...

CLADO, DIS, Venera, Perseus, Maskoch, Synod, Monad, Valenz, Constans?

KDE Plasma with Liquid shell as desktop environment, complete with custom ricing, dot files & all the KDE desktop environment utilities;

Bash + Fish, Tmux, Astro-Neo-Vim with LSP, Emacs, LibreOffice Suite, Calligra, Bottles, Wine, WineTricks, QGIS, Firefox, LibreWolf, Dolphin, Konsole, Inkscape, Karbon, OpenStreetMap, GPlates, GProjector, Itch, Steam, GOG Galaxy, Lutris, Cyberpunk 2077, Ken Silverman's, FreeBASIC, Common Lisp, Godot + Qodot, VLC, MPV, .ogg / .ogv media player, musical tracker, 'Landchad.net', Brasero, K3B, FloppyFormatter, LibreCAD, AutoCAD, Blender, Kate, Qt, Nim, MUSL, C compiler, assembly monitor, HxD debugger, Rust, Swift, Kotlin, F#, C#, GNU make, NASM, Sweet Home 3D, some digital audio workstation software, Audacious, FFMPEG, Wayland, Morevna OpenToonz, some HTTP(S) web server suite, MongoDB, Hexo, Netlify CMS, RSS feed reader + generator, Pomodoro, Calendar, timely Tracker, Notion-like service, Tape, Gollum, some level editors, FreeCiv, The Sims 2, SimCity 4, Quake 1, Doom 1 & Doom 2, Markdown / Argdown, Konqueror, some WYSISYG rich media editor, some Raycaster engine, Daggerfall Unity, Portal 2, Source (1 & 2) Engine modding, some VirtualTableTop software, some remote desktop control software like VNC, OpenSSH, some distributed share storage software, Trenchbroom, StableDiffusionXL, ChatGPT open source alternative, DAO, Krita, GIMP, G'MIC & its plugins, PaintDotNet, CataclysmDDA, CataclysmBDA, Evennia, Python 3, Firefox for KDE (Developer Edition), Perl, PHP, MariaDB, lighttpd, Apache, Nginx, Themix Oomox GTK+ theme editor, Falkon, ...

Custom shell scripts, interactive REPL programming languages, some GUI programs, command aliases and dot file configurations;

?

Venera (computation "deque" project)

Original components:

RISC-V + OpenPOWER = LibreVast (tribble word-based open hardware architecture designed for daily use & tinkering developer purposes)

Tropix + OGAS = Nucleus (optimized distributed processing micro-kernel, like 'Inferno' & 'Plan9')

RedSeaFS + Parade = CLADOgram (direct-access rich media agentive filesystem & file server suite)

KDE + POSIX-compilant CDE = VUE (lightweight desktop environment with profound customization options)

CommonLisp w/ CLOS + Nim = Pan-Lisp (both low-level and high-level REPL programming language)

Existing components:

Fish, Tmux, Vim, Konsole, Flatpak, Git

KDE Plasma w/ Liquid shell alternative

Konqueror, LibreWolf

GIMP w/ G'MIC & Krita w/ G'MIC

Hexo (flat blog self-hosting web server), MariaDB, "Landchad.net" stuff

QEMU, Wine, Wine-tricks, Proton, Bottles, Lutris

Trenchbroom, Godot w/ Qodot

Kate, KDevelop, Okteta, Mousepad, Notepadqq

[...]

[education30and40blog]

Calling LLMs from client-side JavaScript, converting PDFs to HTML + weeknotes

See on Scoop.it - Education 2.0 & 3.0

I’ve been having a bunch of fun taking advantage of CORS-enabled LLM APIs to build client-side JavaScript applications that access LLMs directly. I also span up a new Datasette plugin …

[liljana-el-zein]

Erinnerst du dich an das Leben vor dem Internet ?

Sissy Lilli Die kleine Lilli Facebook Instagram X Tumblr TikTok Amazon Mail Type your email… Abonnieren Täglicher SchreibanreizErinnerst du dich an das Leben vor dem Internet?Alle Antworten anzeigen Ich erinnere mich noch sehr gut an diese Zeit, da ich noch in der Zeit des Commodore C 64, der Datasette, der 3 1/2 und 5 1/4 Zoll Disketten groß geworden bin. Ich kenne noch einen…

[skatalite]

Minus Fourteen — Datasette

[ebordewich]

Klimaforskere viser at NASAs datasett om Solen står bak klimaendringer og ikke CO2

Avhengig av hvilket datasett fra NASA og studier du velger, så kan du påvise at all nåværende oppvarming er forårsaket av solen. Men IPCC benytter kun fire -4- av 16 tilgjengelige datasett slik at de kan komme fram til en annen konklusjon. I sin iver etter å påtvinge det såkalte vitenskapelige konsensus, har IPCC besluttet å bruke kun de datasettene og studiene som støtter deres agenda og…

[ehsdoide]

Python and Datasette

In Passing, Noting Python Apps, and Datasette, Running Purely in the Browser

[magnetictapedatastorage]

i don't know what kind of machines exactly you find interesting but would you like to see some of the AV behemoths i work with? they're warm like dogs

I'm pretty obsessed with early fridge-sized beasts like the IBM 729 as well as the tiny, economically oriented home formats like commodore datasettes, but I'd love to see the AVs :)

[oldmanreviews]

Open Source Javascript Tables

Recently I came across a bunch of expensive plugins for Wordpress. They were focused on tables. I get it, it takes time to build plugins, but they were expensive.

So I wondered whether there are Javascript tools for tables. You know, to display on my website.

And guess what, I found a few that I'd like to try out someday.

ISOTOPE by MetaFizzy

While checking out websites that were using WPDataTables, I came across City Colleges of Chicago website. They were using this for their course search page. You can have build filters to easily identify the relevant data from the non-relevant.

DataTables.net

This tool is free to use, and converts HTML Tables to searchable ones. However, the HTML table must have the tags, <thead> and <tbody>. The <table> must also be identified as having an "id", and a class of "display". I think this has a lot of potential, but you need to convert data to HTML format. That would mean CSV to HTML, and ensuring that the HTML has the proper tagging.

GRID.JS

This is a really nice Javascript library that I'd like to use, if I could. It's free and open source. I think there are some premium tutorials written by an Indian guy, on how to incorporate it into a Wordpress site. The data should be in JSON format. It would load faster then JQuery DataTables. I think I like this a lot.

Tabulator

An open source project with many plugins, it seems that it's great for use in a Wordpress site. But I'm not sure how many rows it can handle.

FooTable

A useful Javascript table framework built for Bootstrap. It's not the only one, but it was a good effort. My concern for this is how to input the data and how many rows it can handle.

Bootstrap Table

This is the other one that was built with Bootstrap in mind. Now that Elon Musk has taken over Twitter, I'm not sure about the future of Twitter Bootstrap. But it's a good project that has given a lot of help to web developers. I hope that Bootstrap survives Elon's reign.

Datasette

Not sure if Datasette is a Javascript framework that I could use easily, but it powers certain high profile websites, like the LAION database website. That is the data set that powers Stable Diffusion, so it's a pretty big deal. Might be the most complex, yet high impact, tool of the lot.

Conclusion

These are just a few of the Javascript libraries that I could find for tables. Ideally, I would one day like to run my own instance of an online spreadsheet software. And use that to embed data into my website. But it may be just a dream. Meanwhile do check out my main site.