September 2018

picular.co

Search engine that returns a palette of colours associated with any word you type.

remysharp.com

Rundown of modern replacements for classic Unix tools — bat for cat, fd for find, plus fzf, htop, ncdu, jq and tldr.

csvkit.readthedocs.io

Suite of command-line tools for converting other tabular formats to CSV and for slicing, joining and querying CSV files.

agate.readthedocs.io

Python data analysis library optimised for readability rather than speed, offered as an alternative to numpy and pandas for everyday data work.

nteract.io

Desktop application for opening and running Jupyter notebooks directly, without a browser or a notebook server.

r.32k.io

Thirteen one-line engineering principles — don't be clever, code is a liability, make it correct before you make it fast.

medium.com

How Netflix grew Jupyter notebooks beyond data science into a company-wide platform for data access, workflow templates and scheduled jobs.

carbon.now.sh

Web tool that turns a snippet of source code into a styled, shareable image.

solar.lowtechmagazine.com

How Low-tech Magazine rebuilt its site as static pages with dithered images and no trackers, served from a solar-powered server that goes offline in long cloudy spells.