> There are around 140 species of wild potato in South America, growing from Mexico in the north all the way down to Argentina and Chile in the south.

This one always bothers me. Mexico is in North America.

Perhaps the word "Latin America" would have been more apt?

I suppose that coincidentally works in this case where they’re inexplicably omitting the wild potato species in the United States.

I personally would have just gone with “the Americas.”

Right below the Gulf of America! /s

Nice game! Good UI experience. When sharing you get 4 different scores (points, top %, avg error, total error) I think. This is a little confusing, better to share one score (maybe plus total error, maybe) so people can more easily compete. 4 scores is too confusing.

Probably my favorite author of fiction. The feast of the goat (la fiesta del chivo) is at the top of my list if you have not read him.

I agree, and I agree with that recommendation.

It's the first one of his books that I read and I remember being completely in awe at his ability to write a novel as if he had a machine that allowed him to look into the minds of anyone at any time or place and then document what he saw.

That novel is about a totalitarian system, that of Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, and it's eerie how I started seeing the little details of human behavior that enable it in the story elsewhere later as well.

"La Fiesta del Chivo" brilliantly captures the vibrant essence of Dominican mannerisms and the melodic rhythm of the Spanish accent, instantly transporting me back to the DR. Beyond its rich cultural portrayal, the novel masterfully unfolds its gripping subject matter with unforgettable power.

Que en paz descanze.

*descanse

zhank you

He was a hugely talented writer, but I hate all his books because of how depressing they are.

Somewhat in this vein is Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons. I liked it, but I am definitely not a purist.

Please don’t use “ay” as the sound in Spanish for e.

Instead, think the e sound in “met”.

+1 Especially given the nature of the product.

Kim Stanley Robinson fans rejoice

Git based database? Sounds super interesting. Are you guys actively looking for something or is it a nice to have?

Many moons and a few jobs ago, I rolled an in-house Wiki in python, that was basically a very thin web UI over mercurial. Each page was a checked-in plain text file (I think some sort of markdown flavor, but this was circa 2010, a totally different era!), each edit was a revision/commit. Things like article history just shelled out to mercurial. "Querying" was down via filesystem operations. Rolled the whole thing in a day and a half or so - less than I'd already spent trying to get a MediaWiki instance stood up!

More like a git-based log than database. We use it for requests and questions that come up on our slack. We figured out how to extract threads from slack, transform them into CSV files and then load them into Airtable.

Airtable has a great UI but the data becomes isolated from our ETL script and it means we have to re-download and export to CSV to use in other contexts.

It'd be great if we could load a CSV into a desktop editor, and then have it store certain views/linked records to other CSV files in a local "db.json" file.

If you want a proper relational database, sqlite would suit better. There are GUI tools to work with sqlite database files and sqlite has csv import and export. But that won't help much if you already have a large CSV you just need to edit a few rows on.

As for versioning sqlite data, just don't ever update or delete any rows but instead only ever insert the updates as a new row. Potentially you could add a 'deleted' boolean and 'inserted' date columns to the tables you want to version. That way you can use '... and deleted = false' to filter out old data and you also know when updates occurred.

The problem with SQLite is that you have binary blobs and you don't have useful text diffs. So you lose a lot easy history reviewing tools based on git and also easy merge/pull reviews.

The closest to a best of both worlds is to use something like JSON to store the data in git and then a tool like Datasette to build an SQLite-powered view on top of that repo.

Nicoya (Costa Rica) is not Nicaragua

Whoops, you're right. The picture I saw was relatively low res and it kind looked like it was Nicaragua.