J. Ryan Stinnett 2024-05-01 15:24:39 I am looking around for tools / frameworks / UI patterns that are roughly of the shape "spreadsheet with editable computation pipeline". What do people know of that's in that category?
To clarify, I realise spreadsheets alone can achieve computation... but I am thinking more of projects where the computation is a bit more "visual" than just formulas in cells, perhaps like a nodes or blocks environment that then feeds into a table / spreadsheet to display data. @Paul Shen's Natto is one such example of the kind of thing I am thinking of. There might be other ways to do this beyond just a series of nodes that feed into a table... I'm curious to see what else might be out there already. I wonder if there are projects in the data analysis / computational science spaces that might fit...?
Apologies if my question is too vague, I'm still trying to work out what I'm even looking for. 🙂
J. Ryan Stinnett 2024-05-01 15:41:46 Ah yes, Instadeq seems like it should be included in the list. I'll have to check it out in more detail, thanks!
J. Ryan Stinnett 2024-05-01 15:46:05 There's probably more matches to be found in this kind of "analytics dashboard" space... I've tried searching of course, but I often end up finding things that just load from a database without containing / visualising any computation themselves.
J. Ryan Stinnett 2024-05-01 16:03:18 Thanks, yeah, Observable (and similar notebook environments) seem worth exploring as well. Haven't seen the others you mentioned before, I'll have to check those out in more detail! 🙂
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J. Ryan Stinnett 2024-05-01 16:10:26 There do seem be a lot of startups in this space... I'm slightly wary of depending on a SaaS tool that might disappear at any moment, but I know that's often the "default" way of building things these days... They are still useful for visual inspiration though.
Mariano Guerra 2024-05-01 16:11:06 I thought you were looking for inspiration, do you have a use case in mind?
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J. Ryan Stinnett 2024-05-01 16:13:59 Ah yeah, for the moment, just getting some visual inspiration of what's out there. I do have a lurking use case bubbling away, but I'll save that for a separate thread. 🤓
J. Ryan Stinnett 2024-05-01 16:15:40 Apache Airflow was one I did encounter, but I am not sure I really "get it"... Is it mainly just querying databases...? I guess I find the ocean of Apache projects generally a bit hard to navigate... 😅
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J. Ryan Stinnett 2024-05-01 16:32:27 Dataflow tracking / pipeline visualisation in the style of NiFi seems interesting, perhaps I need to keep searching for things like this...
J. Ryan Stinnett 2024-05-01 16:33:42 Thanks for all the entries, you've found far more candidates than I managed to on my own...! 🙂
J. Ryan Stinnett 2024-05-01 16:36:51 Signals proposal is an interesting bit of news to follow indeed, wouldn't have initially imagined adding such a thing at the language level, but I see where it comes from in terms have single definition of the concept instead of every reactive framework doing their own thing.
Mariano Guerra 2024-05-01 16:36:58 there are others with less "formula capabilities" but interesting in other aspects
J. Ryan Stinnett 2024-05-01 16:39:10 Ah right, I guess for this purpose, I'm wanting to see some style of "computation" that's visually present and editable, so those last few probably don't match, but still good to know about in terms of general charting ideas.
Mariano Guerra 2024-05-02 06:51:02 as the Simpsons said best:
Homer
: What a bleak and horrible future we live in!
Bart
: Don't you mean "present"?
Homer
: Right, right. Present.
I started working on a new post of "past of future of coding" and tinyletter removed the link resolver service I was using to "detinyletterify" the links, I tried using my search.futureofcoding.org to look for the link there and the cdn seems to be serving a different version of vue so the page fails to load.
Maikel van de Lisdonk 2024-05-03 12:55:46 I was thinking .. I would love to attend a face-to-face meetup off course.. but travelling to berlin or london is currently not possible for me. And this probably true for other people as well. So I was wondering: are there people interested in doing an online meetup?
Leonard Pauli 2024-05-03 13:06:44 We were doing it a while ago, was awesome! Yes! 4ppl in video chat presenting what excites them, and then further topic focused conversation and general connect!
Ivan Reese 2024-05-03 14:13:11 If anyone wants to organize/host one, I'll gladly signal boost once the details are worked out (and attend if I can). I also have a paid zoom we can use, or we could try using Slack's video features.
Maikel van de Lisdonk 2024-05-03 16:03:52 I want to organize, who wants to join? For those who want to join: please let know your timezone
Maikel van de Lisdonk 2024-05-04 08:18:53 Ivan Reese if we could use your paid zoom account then that would be awesome! Can we record the meetup in that case? On what channel is the best place to announce the meetup? administrivia? Or just this one?
Maikel van de Lisdonk 2024-05-04 11:16:25 Thanks! I am in CET myself as well (located in the Netherlands)
Ivan Reese 2024-05-04 13:20:07 Once you've decided all the details, I'll post them in #announcements
Ivan Reese 2024-05-04 13:21:08 (I'd prefer to be the one who does the announcement post, to mildly discourage people from posting in that channel on their own)
Maikel van de Lisdonk 2024-05-04 14:14:49 Does thursday 23rd of may sounds like a good date? Time suggestion 18:00 CET
