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Binder mentions (35)

• RStudio: Integrated development environment (IDE) for R

  The closest Python equivalent to RStudio is the JupyterLab Desktop app[1,2], which I highly recommend. I've entirely switched to using it for teaching, and it is a godsend, since it works the same way across platforms (win/mac/linux), installs its own Python interpreter independent of any system Python the student might have, and even comes with NumPy/SciPy/Pandas/Seaborn/statsmodels already installed, which... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

  Binder - Turn a Git repo into a collection of interactive notebooks. It is a free public service. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Best tools to teach python in a classroom

  I would use https://mybinder.org/ if you can't install anything. It's supported by NumFocus but otherwise runs on donations. You specify requirements in code and they build a docker image from your github repository. I think they should be able to download their notebook and submit it to you - it's been awhile since I used it. But I think they need to have a single person doing the typing. Source: 5 months ago

• Ask HN: Is anyone using Cloud Dev Environments (e.g. Codespaces/Replit) at work?

  You can use Binder https://mybinder.org . If the students have Gmail account, try Google Colab. Pretty easy to use. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• JupyterLab 4.0

  Do you have an example of how this works with another tool/language? I don't know if I understood it correctly but maybe you could: - Upload your notebook to Github, then create a url with Binder (part of the jupyter ecosystem) directly to an editing/fiddling playground: https://mybinder.org/ - If by user-local you mean on their own machine, they can clone your repo and run their own jupyterlab to fiddle - If... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

Observable mentions (284)

• A feature-rich front-end drag-and-drop component library

  Maybe I'm easy to impress, but I always stop and play around with the nested tree example when I come across Sortable. It works so flawlessly, and feels very tuned to mobile dnd. It even works to arrange (and reflow) inline spans in a paragraph! I have yet to come across this functionality in a text editor.. [0]: https://observablehq.com/@dleeftink/sortable-playground. - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago

• Parquet-WASM: Rust-based WebAssembly bindings to read and write Parquet data

  Arrow JS is just ArrayBuffers underneath. You do want to amortize some operations to avoid unnecessary conversions. I.e. Arrow JS stores strings as UTF-8, but native JS strings are UTF-16 I believe. Arrow is especially powerful across the WASM <--> JS boundary! In fact, I wrote a library to interpret Arrow from Wasm memory into JS without any copies [0]. (Motivating blog post [1]) [0]:... - Source: Hacker News / 5 days ago

• A flat map with the least error possible: The Gott-Goldberg-Vanderbei projection

  Here’s the D3 implementation (which is just an interrupted azimuthal equidistant projection): https://observablehq.com/@d3/azimuthal-equidistant-hemispheres. - Source: Hacker News / 5 days ago

• Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things

  I made a quick tool to apply the trick he suggests at the end of the article: https://observablehq.com/@gampleman/font-centering-tool. - Source: Hacker News / 9 days ago

• Zooming User Interface (ZUI)

  There is maybe some room for design too (Figma), but there are many times I wish it DIDN'T do that and encouraged better frame/file organization instead. ------- It can also be useful for some visualizations, like taxonomy: https://itol.embl.de/itol.cgi or https://www.onezoom.org/life.html "Drill down for details" like in disk space analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKClylmlv3w&t=1s (or similar one in D3:... - Source: Hacker News / 12 days ago