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GitHub's office of the CTO / Exploring the future of technology and software beyond the adjacent-possible.

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    May 18

    Releasing our first public project to the world! From our team within GitHub that explores the future of development, we're excited to share: ✨ We asked ourselves: How easy can we make it to work with live-updating data? Check it out!

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    15 hours ago

    SQLite in Observable?? heck yes! I put together an example of how to explore SQLite data in the flat-ui React component open sourced

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    May 25

    🤯 Did you know that you can run *not only* , but also notebooks, , , and all your favorite IDEs on a Codespaces instance? pic.twitter.com/OY4SQr2TBp

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    May 25

    I *love* this next step took with our research! check out the post to see the demo at the bottom -- a private way to see personal patterns so devs can make their own days good, more often. it's a staff ship for now... but stay tuned, i'm on it. twitter.com/githubOCTO/sta…

    OCTO built a proof-of-concept Slack app for Good Day reflections. It stores your responses in your private repo. This is a really interesting pattern — private repos as a kind of convenient, personal datastore. Quantified self for developers! twitter.com/irina_kAl/stat…
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  5. May 25

    OCTO built a proof-of-concept Slack app for Good Day reflections. It stores your responses in your private repo. This is a really interesting pattern — private repos as a kind of convenient, personal datastore. Quantified self for developers! twitter.com/irina_kAl/stat…

    I'm thrilled to share the project I've been working on lately -- so near and dear to my aka.ms/GoodDayProject Huge thanks to for making it possible!
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    May 25

    I'm thrilled to share the project I've been working on lately -- so near and dear to my aka.ms/GoodDayProject Huge thanks to for making it possible!

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    May 24

    a Flat action + script to automatically generate Typescript definitions from the ingested data? cc

    Screenshot of auto-generated Typescript definitions from ingested Flat data
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    May 22

    📊 Update: even the tool for *viewing, understanding, & sharing* data via Flat Data is quite nice. Just prepend 'flat' to any repo's URL, provided it contains tabular, non-nested CSV or JSON files. Example shown below: ta… pic.twitter.com/CNhBoqh7mu

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    May 20

    The new Flat Data viewer from is very cool! I've been tracking hourly snapshots of package submissions to CRAN in a repo on GitHub. And now you can easily look through each snapshot with the Flat Viewer 🧮

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    May 20

    Using bash as postprocess script for GitHub's Flat Data actions cc 🌟 Thank you to for its inspirational python way

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    May 19
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    Using git to manage data is a really powerful approach! I used it to track changes in a recent mapping party for 40+ days. Generating nightly json snapshots of ≈50K buildings made it easy to analyse results! Vises for data I stored in git:

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    May 19

    Precariously jammed 's Flat Viewer into for all your data viewing needs

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    May 19

    not to play favorites, but this is 💯% my favorite part of the new Flat Data workflow. And one that can be used all on its own! Add "flat" to any

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    3️⃣ Flat Viewer A web viewer with tons of useful features 📊 to view data files from any GitHub repo, and how they've changed over time Hint: get to it by adding "flat" to the start of any public GitHub repo url ta…
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    May 19
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    There's more simple and direct : just run a python script from the TS script :) here is an example repo I just made to demonstrate how to do it :

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    May 18

    GitHub's Flat Data uses Deno for data manipulation scripts that fit in a single source file.

    Take a peek into lightweight data workflows from the future. twitter.com/githubOCTO/sta…
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    May 18

    Using this on repositories is pretty cool.

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  17. May 18

    Of course, shoutout to who keeps nonchalantly blowing our minds with patterns like git scraping. He's out there building these hugely impactful tools and using them to track his dog's foursquare checkins.

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  18. May 18

    We'd love to hear your thoughts, and how you're using (or would like to use) Flat Data! And look out for future OCTO projects - we have tons of great explorations planned.

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  19. May 18

    Check out the writeup for a simple quickstart example! We used Flat Data to fetch the latest bitcoin price every five minutes. That live data lives in a .json file in a GitHub repo, ready for use!

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  20. May 18

    3️⃣ Flat Viewer A web viewer with tons of useful features 📊 to view data files from any GitHub repo, and how they've changed over time Hint: get to it by adding "flat" to the start of any public GitHub repo url

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  21. May 18

    Instead of releasing a product, we smoothed the edges into a really easy workflow. This workflow includes a few different pieces: 1️⃣ Flat Action A GitHub Action that downloads data and keeps it updated 2️⃣ Flat Editor A VSCode extension that makes it easy to create Flat actions

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