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I'm curious about how are people using this. Is it just a visualization tool for data or what else? Is anyone using it as their primary navigation tool?

by fiatjaf 12y ago

tubelite 12y ago
Like I said in an earlier comment, there are very few users right now (cough OK just me cough). Mostly I have fun with it, e.g. trying out visualizations of interesting data (e.g. http://bl.ocks.org/ganeshv/raw/fada13e56d2c5b7b1a78/ http://bl.ocks.org/ganeshv/raw/fada13e56d2c5b7b1a78/) My Serious Use Case is full and incremental backups of the contents of my Google Drive, both personal and company, to my desktop. Running the Drive desktop app does not backup Google Docs, and you can only sign in as a single user at a time.
basantrajan 12y ago
perhaps stating the obvious here, but with the abstraction pigshell provides of resources on the web, it should be reasonably straight forward to build arbitrary "internet applications" too. with deferred pipes, split and joins (that pigshell already provides/supports) it should be possible to implement arbitrary work/data flow definitions one desires. coupled with psty, one could build/harness special purpose "transformers" on the web pushing it further, one could conceive of setting up pipes between transformers on the web. of course getting there will require significant work on a security model as well. [and then someone will figure out a way to interject ads]
- fiatjaf 12y ago
  CouchDB is already compatible.
- progman 12y ago
  > of course getting there will require significant work on a security model as well. It could probably be easier than you imagine. The security model could be implemented in psty completely by granting/denying requested resources whose permissions are stored in a database on the psty server, and managed by using long security IDs in the URLs. This way the security model could even be fine-grained. In other words, pigshell itself could be embedded into a secure environment, covered by the permissions of psty.
progman 12y ago
There are so many possible uses cases. For instance, - Web development toolchain. - (Multiple) Server administration. - Control embedded systems. No need for special GUIs there. For instance, simply psty on a Raspberry Pi would be sufficient to present collected data in a nice web graphics on your PC. However for embedded systems I would recommend a reimplementation of psty in a compiled language like C or Nimrod.

I'm curious about how are people using this. Is it just a visualization tool for data or what else? Is anyone using it as their primary navigation tool?

by fiatjaf 12y ago

I'm curious about how are people using this. Is it just a visualization tool for data or what else? Is anyone using it as their primary navigation tool?

tubelite 12y ago

Like I said in an earlier comment, there are very few users right now (cough OK just me cough). Mostly I have fun with it, e.g. trying out visualizations of interesting data (e.g. http://bl.ocks.org/ganeshv/raw/fada13e56d2c5b7b1a78/ http://bl.ocks.org/ganeshv/raw/fada13e56d2c5b7b1a78/) My Serious Use Case is full and incremental backups of the contents of my Google Drive, both personal and company, to my desktop. Running the Drive desktop app does not backup Google Docs, and you can only sign in as a single user at a time.

basantrajan 12y ago

perhaps stating the obvious here, but with the abstraction pigshell provides of resources on the web, it should be reasonably straight forward to build arbitrary "internet applications" too. with deferred pipes, split and joins (that pigshell already provides/supports) it should be possible to implement arbitrary work/data flow definitions one desires. coupled with psty, one could build/harness special purpose "transformers" on the web pushing it further, one could conceive of setting up pipes between transformers on the web. of course getting there will require significant work on a security model as well. [and then someone will figure out a way to interject ads]

fiatjaf 12y ago
CouchDB is already compatible.
progman 12y ago
> of course getting there will require significant work on a security model as well. It could probably be easier than you imagine. The security model could be implemented in psty completely by granting/denying requested resources whose permissions are stored in a database on the psty server, and managed by using long security IDs in the URLs. This way the security model could even be fine-grained. In other words, pigshell itself could be embedded into a secure environment, covered by the permissions of psty.

progman 12y ago

There are so many possible uses cases. For instance, - Web development toolchain. - (Multiple) Server administration. - Control embedded systems. No need for special GUIs there. For instance, simply psty on a Raspberry Pi would be sufficient to present collected data in a nice web graphics on your PC. However for embedded systems I would recommend a reimplementation of psty in a compiled language like C or Nimrod.