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POST Mortem: How Azure Application Gateways’s Missing 308 Killed Our Linked Data API

programming
tech
w3c
linked-data
restful
http
wqa-api
microsoft
azure
application-gateway
In the Linked Data world, cool urls don’t change. That means in the RDF world you’re coining URIs that should be resolvable, and you pick the easiest one. Most people in the…
Oct 21, 2025

The Art of Semantic Procrastination: Why I Use Blank Nodes for Concepts That Aren’t Mine

programming
tech
w3c
linked-data
rdf
json-ld
wqa-api
In the linked data world, there is always a temptation to boil the ocean. When building out a new API or even just a new dataset, there are so many concepts (SKOS:Concept and…
Aug 30, 2025
 

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…
Jun 26, 2025
 

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…
Jun 15, 2025
 

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…
Feb 23, 2025
 

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…
Feb 20, 2025
 

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…
Dec 15, 2024

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…
Feb 5, 2023
 

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.
Jan 29, 2023
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