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Introduction to the Field of Data Engineering - 📖 Patterns of Data Engineering

Explore the evolution and challenges of data engineering from its roots in business intelligence to its current status as a critical field in technology. This chapter offers a comprehensive introduction, covering the historical development, current trends, and future directions of data engineering, alongside personal insights from the author's journey in the field.

Datasette

Datasette is a tool for exploring and publishing data. It helps people take data of any shape, analyze and explore it, and publish it as an interactive website and accompanying API.

The virtual community: homesteading on the electronic frontier

Howard Rheingold tours the "virtual community" of onlin…

FR#162 – EU Regulation Won’t Save Open Social Networks

The European Commission has decided not to extend the Digital Markets Act's interoperability rules to social media, closing off a potential pathway for adoption for open social networks.

The Anatomy of an Agent Harness

Learn how agent harnesses transform AI models into autonomous work engines. Explore core components: filesystems, sandboxes, and memory.

A taxonomy of ATmosphere applications

Last week I spent an energizing, educational, occasionally infuriating week in Vancouver around the ATmosphereConf, a community event gathering developers, investors, data scientists, the odd academic