fluidcruft 10 months ago

Matthew Seal who was a major driving force behind papermill went on to create notable.io which shut down a few months ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38659315

A lot of people seemed to move to nbdev which tried to improve on many aspects of notebook dev culture, but nbdev's maintainers include GitHub employees who are can only comprehend doing anything via GitHub integrations and get huffy and how-dare-you-take-that-tone-with-us if you ever ask about how you would go about doing something without relying on GitHub.

So personally I've just been focusing on nbconvert and rolling my own things.

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reeboo 10 months ago

It's a thin wrapper around notebooks. Does it really need more features? Not saying that it couldn't, but it is feature complete for what its job is.

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  • Kalanos 10 months ago

    things break due to shifting dependencies.

    also, if it isn't maintained by the company that made it, then it is a good sign that they are no longer using it. it suggests that there is a better solution elsewhere.

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barrrrald 10 months ago

Seems like it's mostly died off, most people I know have moved to hosted solutions like Hex or Colab

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