Other similar tools:

- direnv: https://direnv.net/ simple tool and integrates with nix

- devenv: https://devenv.sh/ built on nix and is pretty slice

It was weird when it just showed up one day, but after using it a bit, I like it.

I'd be willing to wear clothes that have ultraviolet stripes and QR codes on them if a laundry robot can fold them for me.

Ooh, I felt this one. I went through porting a webdav browser widget from ExtJS 2.1 -> 3 and then 3 -> 4. It was a nightmare. Does ExtJS still not html encode replacement values in it's templates by default?

I still read with my 5th graders every night. It's a nice time to connect with them and wind down before sleep.

I haven't tried it yet, but I came across this alternate syntax for XSLT which is much more friendly:

https://github.com/Juniper/libslax/wiki/Intro

This is tragic. I believe we should have gone the other way and included xslt 3.0 in the baseline browser requirements.

It sounds like git-annex might be a good option for you. There is also https://www.datalad.org/ built on top of git-annex for large data management.

To be fair, they use types for the complex parts. [0]

[0]: https://github.com/datalad/datalad/blob/maint/datalad/suppor...

Interesting. I've used EXI in a past project but I hadn't heard of BiM.

More than 10 years ago. I was looking into using binary XML on really ressource constraint embedded devices (actually I started to dive into the whole rabbit hole of grammar based compression on hedges in my PhD). I tried to like EXI, but realized that it wasn't really designed for embedded applications. I ended up implementing binary representations very much inspired by BiM.

The world would be lovely if we could have standard error, listing responses, and a common query syntax.

I haven't done REST apis in a while, but I came across this recently for standardizing the error response: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9457.html

I really like the idea of a type URL.