#data

12 bookmarks

https://www.netflix-codes.com/

I'm mostly just interested in the way this feels both madly granualar and weirdly arbitrary. What's...

alasdairw Apr 25, 2025

https://pudding.cool/2017/05/song-repetition/

I'm impressed by the technique used, the pop music science produced, and the design of this essay,

alasdairw Nov 20, 2018

http://aftertheflood.co/projects/atf-spark

Font-based sparkline charts. That is some widlly clever typographical shit right there.

alasdairw Sep 15, 2017

https://www.instaparser.com/

Instapaper's article parser is now available as an API service. Might be handy.

alasdairw Apr 06, 2016

https://tosdr.org/

Site that summarises the terms and conditions of other websites, and ranks them by how good they are...

alasdairw Oct 03, 2014
generatedata.com
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http://www.generatedata.com/

Useful for doing, well, what it says, so that you can test import scripts and other data manipulatio...

alasdairw Jan 21, 2014

http://adactio.com/journal/6291/

Superb article on the importance of a technology that most users don't care about, and never use - R...

alasdairw Jun 18, 2013
Meshu - Welcome
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http://meshu.io/

Personalised jewellery made from location based data, including direct links with Foursquare checkin...

alasdairw May 31, 2012

https://simperium.com/

The sync service that powers Simplenote, my favourite quick text editing tools, is now available as...

alasdairw May 14, 2012

http://datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/

Interesting stuff, and that I will have to read when time permits.

alasdairw May 01, 2012

http://notes.variogr.am/post/10733372290/music-res...

A bit techy, but a good read, and an insight into the problems that Spotify and last.fm have to work...

alasdairw Oct 12, 2011

http://thinkupapp.com/

Need to grab this and have a play with it when time permits.

alasdairw May 05, 2011