Good things to keep in mind if you're pondering between pandas or polars for your data processing.

This is why cats cannot be trusted around computers!

Looks like an interesting serialization framework. If it holds true to its claims it could be very useful in some place.

This is a good way to manage your website. I do the same regarding my blog, I don't do any analytics etc.

This is looking like a bad move. Clearly the fault of western countries though which let things unfold ambiguously regarding copyright... Now Japan is weakening copyright for everyone.

Interesting way to list all the data stores of your system and map them. Has the advantage of being very lean and simple to apply.

Interesting post with a good perspective on big data projects over time. It confirms that most people don't fall in the big data bucket, it's likely less than a percent of the projects which would qualify.

Too often forgotten. Data is indeed a mean to an end. It's not outright knowledge and will require work to be useful. It better be aligned with your needs if you want to use it for decision making.

It's a very nice paper on spreadsheets and how we use them. It got enough history in it to make me tick (goes back all the way to the 1300s!). Also it's well balanced, it's not just about blindly blaming tools but looks at their shortcomings but also how we often use the wrong tool for the task... and then end up managing data and knowledge really badly.