Hey nearsighted Knitters! Did you forget your glasses or is your inbox seeing double? Looks like we have some
E-mail stuff
It’s a brave Substack world! Why the switch up?
The list is organically growing. For now I don’t mind writing in public, so this should be a little easier to manage recipients.
I want to start building out content. The newsletters are no substitute for documentation or a nice landing page, but I’m already writing them. They can be a kind of developer log.
Web stuff
GitHub revolutionized the review process when they introduced pull requests. More than 10 years later, our review tools are still mostly based on diffs. Could we do better, especially when reviewing changes to data?
A lot of times, data reports are basically HTML pages; think Jupyter notebooks or R Markdown. What if we could review and annotate arbitrary HTML?
It’s simple but I think could be pretty interesting as part of a review process. The UI is somewhat cribbed from ReviewNB.
Name stuff
To Knit or to Nit? I’ve been using both names inconsistently. But now that we have a Substack, it seems like Knit might be the winner. Nit would be easier to SEO, but it seems maybe too evocative of Git. The Git analogy can be unclear sometimes, but the idea of knitting data is pretty apparent.
Long live Knit!