Apps, config, etc

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi My rating: 5 of 5 stars A fun book, very positive and entertaining. View all my reviews

Walkaway by Cory Doctorow My rating: 4 of 5 stars Interesting ideas, inconsistent writing. Probably very hard to read for non-technical (IT) people. View all my reviews

An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data Datasette is a tool for exploring and publishing data. It helps people take data of any shape or size and publish that as an interactive, explorable website and accompanying API.

I’ve seen this before, and find it truly inspiring and innovative, so I wanted to log it here. “A communal computer.”