Blog – roughdata

PostgreSQL is the best triplestore

programming

tech

w3c

linked-data

rdf

json-ld

When folks want data they went it on a subject basis, making providing linked data that much easier. I have been exploring using Postgres with FastAPI and pydantic to…

My own verison of Rating of Perceived Effort

running

coaching

sports

fitness

Today a friend I’m coaching made a comment about how a run of theirs “Felt good. Maybe a bit too fast for an easy run but still below tempo”. I had to remind him that an…

Data Are Cool: Disseminating My Online Safety Act Compliance

tech

politics

fediverse

self-hosting

social-media

The Online Safety Act is a piece of work, and not a good one either. Ofcom is not an excellent or communicative regulator. Because they are responsible for both setting the…

A small gotchya around jsonld 1.0, 1.1, and gen-delims from RFC3986

programming

tech

w3c

linked-data

rdf

json-ld

I’m working on an exciting project which is the implementation of the SOSA standard, and as part of the project I wanted to use the envo ontology to provide context to the…

csvcubed, a personal retrospective

programming

tech

portfolio

csvcubed is a tool for building CSV-W files. If you’re wondering what the hell CSV-W is, it’s basically CSV files with extra metadata that provides context and makes them…

Stryd on a Treadmill: Interface Problems

stryd

running

ui

cross-post

tl;dr the swipe based interactions on the Phone App for modifying incline on treadmill workouts is not safe and needs to be reimagined, ideally with a calculator…

Welcome to roughdata!

meta

Turns out, I do need a blog, and it also turns out having backups of my blog posts is a good idea. So here we are.