Writing

Some thoughts on how and why to automation and encapsulate stuff, and an idea for a business.

Progress on the cultural-sector projects I’m working on and some R&D, including reviving Open Audience.

I start weeknoting (again!), do some bikeshedding and come back from holiday to a range of projects.

Automatically building and deploying a static website made simple. A few useful tips and pointers concerning use of rsync in a secure way, and dealing with differing user identities.

I’ve been exploring the capabilities of DuckDB to query data from partitioned parquet files. This blog post collects some useful hints in getting this working with DuckDB-WASM for use in client-side javascript.