Designing file formats and terminal tools. Author of @VisiData. Also: crossword detective, @recursecenter alum. Formerly CIONIC, Jawbone, F5, Microsoft, UIUC.

Seattle
Joined May 2018
We've released @VisiData 2.0! It's now in PyPI (pip) and will be available in other package managers and distros as soon as we catch our breath. patreon.com/posts/visidata-2…
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Saul Pwanson retweeted
Call for Proposals! csv,conf,v6 is happening May 4-5. Submit your talk by Feb 28, 2021 (def not by Feb 28 2020 like our email blast said...sorry...still getting used to the new year!) forms.gle/KVc97WDwDu93q2WE6
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Saul Pwanson retweeted
Last night, we deployed VisiData v2.1.1. 🎉 It is a small release with bugfixes that you will want to have. visidata.org/blog/2021/v2.1.… My favourite is that it now handles piping into head gracefully. head closes pipes early, as soon as it has enough input to showcase.
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I can't wait until @AmeliaMN discovers @VisiData
My kingdom for a lightweight csv “spreadsheet” editor. I want to be able to: 1. see data in cells 2. enter new data 3. sort in ascending and descending order 4. save (That’s it, that’s the end of the feature list.)
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I bought a new @System76 Linux PC back in June. It randomly hangs under load, now happening several times a day, even with just videochat and mild gaming. Customer service at System76 is responsive but I don't have time or energy to diagnose and experiment with heat paste.
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Saul Pwanson retweeted
Replying to @lhochstein
I became proficient in Excel for a year or two when I was using Palo to build some reporting tools. O'Reilly's Analyzing Business Data With Excel is a good resource. These days, I'd consider @VisiData a better tool for ad hoc data exploration.
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Here's a list of seasonal greetings translated into 35 languages. See how many you can identify: saul.pw/2015/languages.svg
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I'm 2 hours in listening to The Caretaker's "Everywhere At The End Of Time", a 6.5-hour ambient musical project intended to evoke the long and terrifying descent into dementia, on the eve of the Winter Solstice of 2020. Everything is fine.
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Saul Pwanson retweeted
Rad. Last night I realized I could use @VisiData as the pager for psql. It works so well! PSQL_PAGER="vd -f csv" psql --csv --pset pager=always asciinema.org/a/380154
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This is the first I've heard of window-swap.com but I'm hooked.
New @puddingviz dataset release: 84,000+ unique links from 100+ newsletters since the summer. github.com/the-pudding/data/…
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