TreeSheets is an Open Source cross-platform free form data organizer, which can replace a variety of other tools, like spreadsheets, mind mappers, outliners, project management tools, text editors, notes applications, and even small databases. It works on Linux, Windows, and Mac, and looks very interesting. Have a look at the screenshots for some of the things that it can do.
Year: 2017
Grakn and Graql – a database for AI
From the grakn.ai website:
Grakn is a distributed hyper-relational database for knowledge-oriented systems. Grakn enables machines to manage complex data that serves as a knowledge base for cognitive/AI systems.
Graql is Grakn’s reasoning (through OLTP) and analytics (through OLAP) query language. Graql is a much higher level abstraction over traditional query language – SQL, NoSQL, or Graphs.
What People Really Think During a Board of Directors of Meeting
“What People Really Think During a Board of Directors of Meeting” is one of the funniest and most accurate things I’ve read on the subject of business meetings in a very long time. Enjoy!
VueJS and GraphQL with Apollo
This blog post demonstrates how to tie together Vue.js and GraphQL using the Apollo Client. This is not something that I’ve tried yet, but it’s on the horizon.
If you have any other handy links for either Vue.js or GraphQL, please throw them my way.
Plugins spring cleaning
I’ve done a little spring cleaning of some plugins installed and activated on this site. You shouldn’t notice much of a difference, except, maybe, fewer quirks and issues. Here are some of the plugins that were removed:
- Smart YouTube Pro – it was only used in a couple of posts for easier embedding of YouTube playlists. Since I installed and used this plugin, WordPress got much better at embedding videos, so I don’t need it anymore.
- Smart 404 – I think I used it with one of the previous themes on this site, but I can’t even remember last time I saw it working. The 404 page of the current theme features a search form, which I think is good enough.
- PayPal Donations – this was an experiment I tried ages and ages ago. No need for this at all for quite some time now.
- Related Posts By Tags – I used this with one of the previous themes, but it’s been ages since, and I think even the plugin is discontinued now.
- Social – the plugin has been discontinued and the functionality was moved to JetPack. I had this one disabled for quite some time now.
- WP-Polls – this was yet another experiment I tried years ago. There were a few polls with a few votes, which prevented me from removing this plugin. But today I thought I’d do a compromise. I replaced all polls with the screenshot of voting results for the purposes of data preservation. :) Now I don’t need the plugin anymore and it’s gone.
That’s 6 plugins fewer – not bad. Especially considering that some of them were quite heavy on the rendering side of things, and they were inserting useless CSS and JavaScript assets into every page of this site. I think I should do it more often.